Council Members
The Council assists the Executive Committee in managing ISID's activities through participation on committees and working groups.  The Council is distributed according to World Health Organization regions to ensure that all regions of the world are represented in the governing structure of the Society.  Council members serve a six-year term.  The Nominations Committee proposes candidates to fill vacancies in the Council.  Society members vote on the recommendations of the Nominations Committee at the biennial meeting.  Any member in good standing may submit his or her name to the Nominations Committee for consideration for Council membership.
Council Members
ISID_Council_BrownP.gif Paul BROWN Jamaica University of the West Indies at Mona Molecular microbiology
ISID_Council_ChengJ.gif Jun CHENG China Beijing Ditan Hospital Infectious diseases, viral hepatitis
ISID_Council_CimmermanS.gif Sergio CIMMERMAN Brazil Instituto de Infectologia Eemilio Ribas Intestinal parasitosis, Intestinal Parasitosis and AIDS, Tropical Medicine
ISID_Council_EnaJ.gif Javier ENA Spain Consultant, Department of Medicine, Hospital Marina Baixa
Associate Professor, Department of Public Health, Universidad Miguel Hernandez, Alicante
Tuberculosis, HIV infection
ISID_Council_GebreT.gif Teshome GEBRE Ethiopia Regional Representative for Africa, The Task Force for Global Health Inc. Health Care Management Specialist (with more focus on Malaria and Neglected Tropical Diseases)
ISID_Council_GilbertB.gif Barry GILBERT Australia Private Public Health practice Public health
ISID_Council_GordtsB.gif Bart GORDTS Belgium Head of infection control
Ziekenhuisnetwerk Antwerpen (ZNA)
Healthcare associated infections, microbiology, information technology and expert systems
ISID_Council_GuzmanM.gif Maria G. GUZMAN Cuba "Pedro Kouri" of Tropical Medicine Institute, Havana
Head Virology Department
Director
PAHO/WHO Collaborating Center for the study of dengue and its vector
Virology and specifically dengue (diagnostic, pathogenesis, vaccine research, epidemiology)
ISID_Council_HajjehR.gif Rana A. HAJJEH USA Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Infectious Diseases Epidemiology, Vaccine Preventable Diseases, Infectious Diseases in the Middle East
ISID_Council_LeuH.gif Hsieh-Shong LEU Taiwan Taiwan Chang Gung Memorial Hospital Linkou Medical Center Hospital Epidemiology, Patient care of Infectious Diseases and Internal Medicine
ISID_Council_MarinoC.gif Cristina MARINO Columbia Pediatric Infectologist and coordinates the Area of Pediatric Infectous Diseases at the Military Hospital in Bogota. Associate Professor Vaccines and antibiotic stewardship
ISID_Council_MbopikeouF.gif Francois-Xavier MBOPI-KEOU Cameroon Director, National Public Health Laboratory, Ministry of Public Health
Teaching Coordinator, University of Yaoundé I, Department of Microbiology & Infectious Diseases
Professor of Laboratory Medicine, Infectious Diseases & International Health
ISID_Council_MehtarS.gif Shaheen MEHTAR South Africa Stellenbosch University, Cape Town
Chair of the Infection Control Africa Network
Infection prevention and control, antimicrobial stewardship and community based infection control programmes
ISID_Council_MemishZ.gif Ziad A. MEMISH Kingdom Of Saudi Arabia Deputy Minister of Health for Public Health
Director of WHO Collaborating Centre for Mass Gathering Medicine
Public Health, Infectious Diseases
ISID_Council_OryanM.gif Miguel O'RYAN Chile University of Chile Pediatric Infectious Diseases
ISID_Council_PittetD.gif Didier PITTET Switzerland University of Geneva Hospitals and Faculty of Medicine Healthcare-associated infection, hospital epidemiology, patient safety, infectious diseases, public health
ISID_Council_PremaratnaR.gif Ranjan PREMARATNA Sri Lanka Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Kelaniya Infectious Diseases, Tropical Medicine, Dengue, Rickettsial Diseases, Lymphatic Filariasis, Malaria
ISID_Council_RathoR.gif RK RATHO India Prof and Head, Department of Virology,
Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and research, Chandigarh
Medical Virologist; working in the field of Epidemiology and molecular pathogenesis of Arboviral (Dengue, Japanese Encephalitis, Chikungunya) infections, Viral hepatitis E and viral infections in organ transplants
ISID_Council_RobertsS.gif Sally ROBERTS New Zealand Clinical Head of Microbiology, Auckland District Health Board Clinical Microbiologist and Infectious Diseases Physician
ISID_Council_SavioE.gif Eduardo SAVIO Venezuela Asociación Panamericana de Infectologia HIV infection. Viral hepatitis
ISID_Council_ShiblA.gif Atef M. SHIBL Saudi Arabia Consultant microbiologist,
Coordinator of all national surveillance on antibiotic resistance.
Bacteriology (pathogenesis of different organisms)
ISID_Council_SuputtamongkolY.gif Yupin SUPUTTAMONGKOL Thailand Division of Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital, Mahidol University, Bangkok Tropical infectious diseases (malaria, melioidosis and leptospirosis)
  Vladimir KRCMÉRY Slovak Republic St. Elizabeth University Tropical Institute Tropical infectious Diseases, fungal infectious diseases
  Shabir A. MADHI South Africa National Institute for Communicable Diseases Pediatrics ID, Vaccinology against respiratory pathogens, HIV-infected children
  Neelika MALAVIGE Sri Lanka Senior lecturer, Department of Microbiology, University of Sri Jayawardenapura, Sri Lanka and Academic visitor, Nuffield Department of Experimental Medicine, University of Oxford viral immunology
  Marie-Christine ROY Canada Hôpital de l'Enfant-Jésus
CHU de Québec
Microbiolgy & Infectious Diseases, and Infection Control
  Zeinab Hassan AL-WAHSH Jordan    
  Zulfiqar BHUTTA Pakistan    
  Pedro CAHN Argentina    
  Nii HANSON-NORTEY Ghana    
  Alison HOLMES UK    
  Aikichi IWAMOTO Japan    
  Alaine Umubyeyi NYARUHIRIRA Rwanda    
  Roberto SALVINO Philippines    
  Constance WENDT Germany    
  Sergio WEY Brazil