Organizers
Didier Pittet – Geneva, Switzerland
Andreas Voss – Nijmegen, Netherlands

Local Organizing Committee
Fabricio da Liberdade Jantarada
(Coordinator)
Marie-Noelle Chraiti
Nadia Colaizzi
Philippe Eggimann
Claude Ginet
Thomas Haustein
Laurent Kaiser
Claire Kilpatrick
Klara Posfay-Barbe
Maria Estela Machado Gonçalves
Jérome Pugin
Hugo Sax
Slim Slama
Andrew Stewardson
Rosemary Sudan
Ilker Uçkay
Christian Van Delden
Giorgio Zanetti
Walter Zingg

Organizing Committee
Lindsay Grayson – Australia
Rosanna Richtmann – Brazil
Jean Carlet – France
Vincent Jarlier – France
Petra Gastmeier – Germany
Wing-Hong Seto – Hong Kong
Jan Kluytmans – Netherlands
Andreas Voss – Netherlands
Ziad Memish – Saudi Arabia
Babacar Ndoye – Senegal
Paul Anantharajah Tambyah – Singapore
Marc Struelens – European CDC
Stephan Harbarth – Switzerland
Didier Pittet – Switzerland
Andreas Widmer – Switzerland
Loreen Herwaldt – USA
Benedetta Allegranzi – WHO

Programme Committee
Mary-Louise McLaws – Australia
David Paterson – Australia
Herman Goossens – Belgium
Jean-Louis Vincent – Belgium
Vincent Djientcheu – Cameroun
Lindsay Nicolle – Canada
Christian Brun-Buisson – France
Jean Christophe Lucet – France
Hervé Richet – France
Michel Wolff – France
Alexander Friedrich – Germany
Helen Giamarellou – Greece
Patricia Ching – Hong Kong
Geeta Metha – India
Yehuda Carmeli – Israel
Maria Luisa Moro – Italy
Evelina Tacconelli – Italy
Nordiah Jalil – Malaysia
Michael Borg – Malta
Marc Bonten – Netherlands
Christina Vandenbroucke-Grauls – Netherlands
Hanan Balkhy – Saudi Arabia
Moi Lin Ling – Singapore
Shaheen Mehtar – South Africa
Patricia Muñoz – Spain
Christian Ruef – Switzerland
Hugo Sax – Switzerland
John McConnell – The Lancet
Serhat Unal – Turkey
Nizam Damani – UK
Alison Holmes – UK
Judith Richards – UK
Homero Bagnulo – Urugay
John Boyce – USA
E. Patchen Dellinger – USA
Eli Perencevich – USA
Edward Kelley – WHO
Claire Kilpatrick – WHO
Susan Sheridan – WHO

Advisory Board*
Victor Rosenthal – Argentina
John Ferguson – Australia
Thomas Gottlieb – Australia
David Looke – Australia
Franz Allerberger – Austria
Manfred Rotter – Austria
Bart Gordts – Belgium
Anne Simon – Belgium
Luci Corea – Brazil
Flavia Rossi – Brazil
Sergio Wey – Brazil
John Conly – Canada
Yves Longtin – Canada
Ethan Rubinstein – Canada
Bijie Hu – China
Hui Wang – China
Alvaro Calderon – Columbia
Vlastimil Jindrak – Czech Republic
Niels Frimodt-Moller – Denmark
Robert Skov – Denmark
Antoine Andremont – France
Jean Chastre – France
Jean-Yves Fagon – France
Benoit Lejeune – France
Philippe Vanhems – France
Markus Dettenkofer – Germany
Sebastian Lemmen – Germany
Panayotis Tassios – Greece
Szilágyi Emese – Hungary
Anita Arora – India
Anand Manoharan – India
Namita Jaggi – India
Djoko Widodo – Indonesia
Mehrdad Askarian – Iran
Hilary Humphreys – Ireland
Bina Rubinovic – Israel
Massimo Antonelli – Italy
Guido Bertolini – Italy
Silvio Brusaferro – Italy
Paolo Malacarne – Italy
Angelo Pan – Italy
Nicola Petrosillo – Italy
Mansour Adeoty – Ivory Coast
Toshinobu Horii – Japan
Yuichi Imanaka – Japan
Hiroyoshi Kobayashi – Japan
Takashi Okubo – Japan
Miho Sekimoto – Japan
Junko Kizu – Japan
Kyungwom Lee – Korea
Jae Hoon Song – Korea
Lul Raka – Kosovo
Souha Kanj – Lebanon
Victor Lim – Malaysia
Samuel Ponce-Leon – Mexico
Timothy Blackmore – New Zealand
Hajo Grundmann – Netherlands
Henri Verbrugh – Netherlands
Egil Lingas – Norway
Piotr Heczko – Poland
Waleria Hryniewicz – Poland
Sergej Eremin – Russia
Adriano Duse – South Africa
Keith Klugman – South Africa
Dale Fisher – Singapore
Maja Rupnik – Slovenia
Antoni Torres – Spain
Toni Trilla – Spain
Jordi Rello – Spain
Jesus Rodríguez-Bãno – Spain
Hakan Hanberger – Sweden
Barbro Olsson-Liljequist – Sweden
Philippe Eggimann – Switzerland
Gerhard Eich – Switzerland
Jérome Pugin – Switzerland
Giorgio Zanetti – Switzerland
Walter Zingg – Switzerland
Hsueh Po-ren – Taiwan
Lee Chun Ming – Taiwan
Anucha Apisarnthanarak – Thailand
Ben Cooper – Thailand
Hakan Leblebicioglu – Turkey
Jonathan Cohen – UK
Mervin Singer – UK
Craig Rubens – USA
Derek Angus – USA
Daniel Diekema – USA
Patchen Dellinger – USA
Mike Edmond – USA
Don Goldmann – USA
William Jarvis – USA
Marin Kollef – USA
Michael Tapper – USA
Pam Lipsett – USA
Dan Nafziger – USA
Trish Perl – USA
Peter Pronovost – USA
Gina Pugliese – USA
Mark Rupp – USA
Sanjay Saint – USA
Robert Sherertz – USA
Robert A. Weinstein – USA
Sir Liam Donaldson – WHO
Joyce Hightower – WHO
Carmen Pessoa Silva – WHO
Shamsuzzoha Syed – WHO

* Final list of Advisory Board members to be confirmed

Society Liaisons
Elaine Larson (APIC)
Ling Moi Lin (APSIC)
Michele Pearson (CDC)
Dominique Monnet (ECDC)
Gary French (HIS)
Michael Borg (IFIC)
Shaheen Mehtar (IPCAN)
Leonard Mermel (SHEA)