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ICC Comunidada Cientçifica Internacional de <strong>Control</strong> de Infecciones Nosocomiales ADVISORY BOARD Assistant Professor, Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases and Immunology, Department of 23/09/11 22:16 Pediatrics, Emory University School of Medicine. Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.A. Ann Arbor, Michigan, U.S.A. Links: http://www.msic-online.org Alvarado, Carla J., PhD, CIC. Research Scientist Emerita. Center for Quality and Productivity Improvement. University of Wisconsin- Madison, and Research Scientist and Course Director Systems Engineering Initiative for Patient Safety (SEIPS) Human Factors Engineering and Patient Safety Short Course. Former Board of Director of the Association for Professionals in <strong>Infection</strong> <strong>Control</strong> and Epidemiology (APIC); Former Trustee of the Association for Professionals in <strong>Infection</strong> <strong>Control</strong> and Epidemiology (APIC) Research Foundation; Chairperson of Human Factors and Ergonomics Society (HFES) Healthcare Technical Group. Affiliated to the MP 471 Patient Safety: Risk Assessment and Management and Center for Quality and Productivity Improvement Courses programs (CQPI) College of Engineering and the School of Medicine and Public Health, University of Wisconsin-Madison. She received 2003 Association for Professionals in <strong>Infection</strong> <strong>Control</strong> and Epidemiology (APIC) Carol DeMille Lifetime Achievement in <strong>Infection</strong> <strong>Control</strong> Award. Madison, Wisconsin, USA. Links: http://www.engr.wisc.edu/centers/cqpi/ http://www2.fpm.wisc.edu/seips/ French, Gary L., BSc MD, FRC Path Dip Professor of Microbiology and Honorary Consultant, King's College and Guy's & St Thomas' Hospital Trust, London, UK. Chairman of the Guy’s and St Thomas’ Hospital Trust <strong>Infection</strong> <strong>Control</strong> Committee. Vice-Chairman of the United Kingdom Association of Academic Clinical Microbiologists and Virologists. Board Member of the International Federation of <strong>Infection</strong> <strong>Control</strong> (IFIC). Former Chairman of the Hospital <strong>Infection</strong> Society (HIS). He has served on organising committees for the International Conferences of the Hospital <strong>Infection</strong> Society since 1990. Former Editor of the Journal of Hospital <strong>Infection</strong>. Former Foundation Professor and Head of the Department of Medical Microbiology at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Former President of the Hong Kong Society of Microbiology and Secretary of the Hong Kong Society of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy. London, UK. Europe Links: http://www.guysandstthomas.nhs.uk http://www.kcl.ac.uk/ Graves, Nicholas, PhD (econ), BA Hons. (econ & econ hist), MA (health services). Senior Lecturer in Health Economics, Princess Alexandra Hospital, Brisbane, Australia. Senior Research Fellow in Health Economics, Institute for Health & Biomedical Innovation, QUT, Brisbane, Australia. Peer Reviewer of Scientific Journals: BMJ, Emerging Infectious Diseases, Journal of Health Services Research & Policy, <strong>Infection</strong> <strong>Control</strong> & Hospital Epidemiology (ICHE), Epidemiology & <strong>Infection</strong>, AIDS, Journal of Internal Medicine, European Journal of Public Health, and others. Research Funding: NH&MRC Australia Project Grants; NHS Quality Improvement, Health Technology Assessment, Scotland; Health Research Board, Health Services Research, Ireland. Brisbane, Australia. Oceania. Links: http://www.ihbi.qut.edu.au/ Jarvis, William Robert, M.D., F.A.A.P., FIDSA, FSHEA Recipient of the Martin S. Favero Lectureship Award (2006) of the Am. Assoc. for Infect. <strong>Control</strong> and Clinical Associate Professor, Division Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Immunology and Epidemiology, Hosp. Epidemiol., and Hygeia Medal (2009) of the Rudolf Sch!lke Foundation. ICC Comunidada School of Medicine, Cientçifica Atlanta, Internacional Georgia. de <strong>Control</strong> de Infecciones Nosocomiales 23/09/11 22:16 Editor, <strong>Infection</strong> <strong>Control</strong> and Hospital Epidemiology (ICHE). Former Senior Editor, IcanPrevent, Ican, Olmsted, Russell N., MPH, CIC Ottawa, Canada. Inc. Links: <strong>INICC</strong> Comunidada Cientçifica Internacional de <strong>Control</strong> de Infecciones Nosocomiales Former President and Vice-President, The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA). http://www.medicine.uottawa.ca/crem/eng/ 23/09/11 22:16 Former Chair, American Society for Microbiology (ASM). tp://www.inicc.org/english/board.php Página 4 de 7 Former President and Vice President, Research Foundation for Prevention of Complications Epidemiologist, <strong>Infection</strong> <strong>Control</strong> Services; Saint Joseph Mercy Health System. <strong>INICC</strong> Comunidada Cientçifica Internacional de <strong>Control</strong> de Infecciones Nosocomiales 2006 President & Member, Michigan Society for <strong>Infection</strong> <strong>Control</strong> (MSIC). Associated with Health Care, Association for Professionals in <strong>Infection</strong> <strong>Control</strong> and Epidemiology, Inc. 2006 President & Member, Michigan Society for <strong>Infection</strong> <strong>Control</strong> (MSIC). Member, Healthcare <strong>Infection</strong> <strong>Control</strong> Practices Advisory Committee (HICPAC), Centers for Disease (APIC). Seto, Wing Hong, MD Former Commissioned Corps Officer, U.S. Public Health Service, http://www.inicc.org/english/board.php Centers for Disease <strong>Control</strong> and <strong>Control</strong> & Prevention (CDC). Página 5 de 7 Chief of Service of Microbiology and <strong>Infection</strong> <strong>Control</strong> Officer, Queen Mary Hospital and Hong Kong Prevention (CDC). Former Chief, National Center for Infectious Diseases (NCID), CDC. Former Acting Associate Editor, American Journal of <strong>Infection</strong> <strong>Control</strong> (AJIC); and Member - Editorial Board, Journal Director, HIP, NCID, CDC. Former Associate Director for Program Development, Division of Healthcare West Cluster, Hospital Authority. of Hospital <strong>Infection</strong> (JHI). http://www.inicc.org/english/board.php Quality Promotion, NCID, CDC. Founding President of the Asia Pacific Society of <strong>Infection</strong> <strong>Control</strong> and President of the Asia Pacific Adjunct Assistant Professor, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University. Former Clinical Ann Arbor, Michigan, U.S.A. Society of Quality Healthcare. Assistant Professor, Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases and Immunology, Department of Links: Chairman of the <strong>Infection</strong> <strong>Control</strong> Scientific Committee of the “Centre for Health Protection” in Hong Pediatrics, Emory University School of Medicine. Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.A. http://www.msic-online.org Kong. WHO Regular Advisor for various projects in <strong>Infection</strong> <strong>Control</strong>, Antibiotics Resistance and a core group Lynch, Patricia, RN, MBA. Former Chair, International Federation of <strong>Infection</strong> <strong>Control</strong> (IFIC) and an IFIC Board member since Lynch, Patricia, RN, MBA. Former Chair, International Federation of <strong>Infection</strong> <strong>Control</strong> (IFIC) and an IFIC Board member since 1999. Former president of the Association for Professionals in <strong>Infection</strong> <strong>Control</strong> and Epidemiology (APIC), of the Certification Board of <strong>Infection</strong> <strong>Control</strong>, and of the Research Foundation for Prevention of Complications Associated with Health Care. Redmond, Washington, U.S.A. Links: http://www.theific.org/ Maki, Dennis G., MD. Ovid O. Meyer Professor of Medicine and Head, Section of Infectious Disease, Department of Medicine University of Wisconsin Medical School. Attending Physician of the Center for Trauma and Life Support Hospital Epidemiologist and Director of Infectious Disease Clinic, University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics. Former President of the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA), of the Interstate Postgraduate Medical Association, and Councillor of the Infectious Diseases Society of America. Editorial Board Member of the Centers for Disease <strong>Control</strong> (CDC)’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR). Former Editor, Primum Non Nocere, Center for Disease <strong>Control</strong> and Former Editorial Board Member of <strong>Infection</strong> <strong>Control</strong> and Hospital Epidemiology (ICHE), Critical Care Medicine, Critical Care Monitor, Journal of Laboratory and Clinical Investigation, Journal of Critical Care, Journal of Infectious Diseases, and others. Former Consultant to the Centers for Disease <strong>Control</strong> (CDC) Hospital <strong>Infection</strong> <strong>Control</strong> Practices Advisory Committee (HICPAC) and for the National Response to Bioterrorism of the Centers for Disease <strong>Control</strong> (CDC). Madison, Wisconsin, U.S.A. Links: http://www.medicine.wisc.edu/mainweb/DOMPages.phpsection=infectiousdisease&page=introduction McDonnell, Gerald, BSc PhDBSc PhD B.Sc. (Hons.) in Medical Laboratory Sciences from the University of Ulster, Northern Ireland. Ph.D. in Microbial Genetics from Trinity College Dublin, Ireland. Presenter at international conferences and has published over 130 patents and research papers, including a book on Antisepsis, Disinfection and Sterilization: Types, Action and Resistance. Member of national and international organizations for standard and guideline development. Vice President for STERIS Corporation, a global leader in infection prevention, contamination control, surgical and critical care technologies. Basingstoke. England. United Kingdom. Pittet, Didier, MD, MS. Pittet, Didier, MD, MS. Director, <strong>Infection</strong> <strong>Control</strong> Programme, University of Geneva Hospitals. Lead, World Health Organization (WHO) World Alliance for Patient Safety, First Global Patient Safety Challenge, World Health Organization (WHO) Headquarters, Geneva. Professor of Medicine, University of Geneva Faculty of Medicine. Honorary professor at Division of Investigative Science, Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine. London, UK. ; at Faculty of Health and Social Sciences, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, SAR, China; and at 1st Medical School of the Fu, Shanghai, China. Associate editor, <strong>Infection</strong> <strong>Control</strong> and Hospital Epidemiology (ICHE); Member of the editorial boards of American Journal of <strong>Infection</strong> <strong>Control</strong> (AJIC), American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine (AJRCCM), Lancet Infectious Diseases; Consultant to the Lancet. Geneva, Switzerland. Europe. Links: http://www.hcuge.ch http://www.who.int/patientsafety/worldalliance/en/ Rutala, William A., Ph.D., M.P.H. Director of Hospital Epidemiology, Occupational Health and Safety Program at the University of North Carolina (UNC) Health Care System. Director and Co-founder of the Statewide Program for <strong>Infection</strong> <strong>Control</strong> and Epidemiology at the UNC School of Medicine. Professor for the Division of Infectious Diseases at the UNC School of Medicine. Advisor to the Centers for Disease <strong>Control</strong> and Prevention (CDC), Atlanta, Georgia, the Food and Drug Administration, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and the Federal Trade Commission. Editorial Board Member of the <strong>Infection</strong> <strong>Control</strong> and Hospital Epidemiology (ICHE). Member of the Scientific Advisory Panel on Antimicrobial Research Strategies for Disinfectants and Former Member of the Healthcare <strong>Infection</strong> <strong>Control</strong> Practices Advisory Committee (HICPAC) [1999- 2003] and of the General Hospital and Personal Use Devices Panel. Member of several professional societies including the American Society for Microbiology (ASM), the Association for Professionals in <strong>Infection</strong> <strong>Control</strong> and Epidemiology (APIC) and the Society of Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA). Chapel Hill, North Carolina, U.S.A. Links: http://medicine.med.unc.edu/divisions/infectious-diseases/faculty-profiles/william-a-rutala-phd-ms-mph Sattar, Syed A., M.Sc., Dip. Bact., M.S., Ph.D., RM (CCM), FAAM Professor Emeritus of Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada. Founding Director, Centre for Research on Environmental Microbiology (CREM), University of Ottawa. Member, Editorial Boards, Am. J. Infect. <strong>Control</strong>, International J. Infect. <strong>Control</strong>, Medicine & Hygiene. Advisor to the governments of Canada and the U.S. on various aspects of infection control. Member, World Health Organization’s core group to draft the <strong>Guidelines</strong> on Hand Hygiene. Member, Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development’s Task Group to develop harmonized methodologies to assess the microbicidal activities of hard surface disinfectants. member for the WHO Hand Hygiene guidelines. Honorary Professor for the University of Hong Kong and the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, and visiting professor for the University of New South Wales. He has been awarded the “Bronze Bauhinia Star” from the Hong Kong Government for his work in <strong>Infection</strong> <strong>Control</strong> in Hong Kong. 23/09/11 2 Página 6