Councils - Infectious Disease
| SCIENTIFIC COUNCIL ON INFECTIOUS DISEASES |
| QUICK LINKS |
- 2011 April ID Council Meeting Minutes PDF
- 2011 April ID Council Meeting Report to Board PowerPoint
- ISHLT Advisory Statement on Pandemic Influenza PDF
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- Infectious Diseases Database Manual PDF
- Infectious Diseases Database Link
(Microsoft Access required)
- Order your copy of the new Monograph Volume 5 - click HERE for details.
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| COUNCIL CHAIRS |
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Cleveland Clinic Foundation Cleveland, Ohio, USA 216-636-1077 danzigl@ccf.org |
Lara Danziger-Isakov, MD, MPH, practices pediatric infectious diseases in the Center for Pediatric Infectious Diseases in the Pediatrics Institute at Cleveland Clinic. She is also an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at the Lerner College of Medicine at Case Western University School of Medicine. Dr. Danziger-Isakov earned her MD at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine and complete her residency in Pediatrics at the Cleveland Clinic. She also completed a fellowship in Pediatric Infectious Diseases at Saint Louis Children's Hospital. Dr. Danziger-Isakov is board-certified in Pediatrics and Pediatric Infectious Diseases by the American Board of Pediatrics. Her clinical interests include pediatric infectious diseases, infections in transplant recipients, and infections in immunocompromised patients. Her research interests include outcomes related to infection after pediatric transplantation with an emphasis on pediatric and adult lung transplantation. In addition, Dr. Danziger-Isakov participates in clinical trials to evaluate both new infectious disease therapies and new method of detection for infectious diseases. |
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Hannover Medical Center Hannover, GERMANY 49-221-8907-8677 MattnerF@kliniken-koeln.de |
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Sentara Norfolk Transplant Center/EVMS Norfolk, Virginia, USA 757-388-3803 mooneyml@evms.edu |
Martha Mooney, MD, is an Associate Professor at Eastern Virginia Medical School (EVMS) in Norfolk, Virginia. Dr. Mooney received her medical education at EVMS and a graduate degree in Biochemical Genetics from Old Dominion University in Norfolk. She completed her residency in Internal Medicine at Eastern Virginia Graduate School of Medicine and subsequently completed a fellowship in Infectious Disease, Research and Clinical, at the Medical College of Virginia in Richmond, Virginia. |
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University of Maryland Baltimore, Maryland, USA 410-328-3140 puber@medicine.umaryland.edu |
Dr. Patricia Uber is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the University of Maryland School of Medicine. She regularly serves on the scientific program committees for the Heart Failure Society of America as well as the International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation. She has authored over 100 publications, including peer-reviewed original research papers, investigating new immunosuppressant regimens in heart transplantation, genetic approaches to personalized medicine, health care disparities in African-American heart transplant recipients and biomarkers in obese patients with heart failure. |
| 2012 PROGRAM COMMITTEE REPRESENTATIVES |
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University Medical Centre Groningen Groningen, THE NETHERLANDS 31-50-361-4932 e.a.m.verschuuren@int.umcg.nl |
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Cleveland Clinic Foundation Cleveland, Ohio, USA 216-636-1077 danzigl@ccf.org |
Lara Danziger-Isakov, MD, MPH, practices pediatric infectious diseases in the Center for Pediatric Infectious Diseases in the Pediatrics Institute at Cleveland Clinic. She is also an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at the Lerner College of Medicine at Case Western University School of Medicine. Dr. Danziger-Isakov earned her MD at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine and complete her residency in Pediatrics at the Cleveland Clinic. She also completed a fellowship in Pediatric Infectious Diseases at Saint Louis Children's Hospital. Dr. Danziger-Isakov is board-certified in Pediatrics and Pediatric Infectious Diseases by the American Board of Pediatrics. Her clinical interests include pediatric infectious diseases, infections in transplant recipients, and infections in immunocompromised patients. Her research interests include outcomes related to infection after pediatric transplantation with an emphasis on pediatric and adult lung transplantation. In addition, Dr. Danziger-Isakov participates in clinical trials to evaluate both new infectious disease therapies and new method of detection for infectious diseases. |
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University Hospital la Fe Valencia Valencia, SPAIN 34-61-656-6203 sole_amp@gva.es
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Amparo Sole, MD, PhD, is a pulmonologist professor of lung transplant medicine at EVESP (Escuela valenciana de estudios superiores). She is Director of the Adult Cystic Fibrosis Unit and Senior Consultant of the Lung Transplant Unit at the University and Polytechnic Hospital La Fe in Valencia, Spain. Her clinical interests include lung transplant, heart-lung transplant, transplant outcomes, and cystic fibrosis.
She has developed her career in the field of lung transplant at several hospitals around the world, being a visitor and researcher at the Royal Brompton Hospital of London, Freeman Hospital in Newcastle (England), Toronto General Hospital in Ontario (Canada), and at St. Vincent's Hospital in Sydney (Australia).
She was president of the 33rd European Cystic Fibrosis Conference held in Valencia in June, 2010. Currently she is the President of the Spanish Scientific Society of Cystic Fibrosis. |
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University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA 412-648-6512 silveirafd@upmc.edu |
Fernanda P. Silveira, MD, MS is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the Division of Infectious Diseases and a member of the Transplant Infectious Diseases Unit. Her research interests are on treatment and outcome of infections in solid organ transplant recipients, cytomegalovirus infections in organ transplant recipients and infections with multi-drug resistant bacteria.
She is also the Associated Director of Education for the Division of Infectious Diseases and coordinates the educational activities for the fellowship program. |
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University of Insubria Varese, ITALY 39-0332-393389 paolo.grossi@uninsubria.it |
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Toronto General Hospital Toronto, Ontario, CANADA 416-340-4800 shahid.husain@uhn.on.ca |
Shahid Husain, MS, MBBS, MD is an Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of Toronto, Canada and Director of the Transplant Infectious Diseases at the University Health Network, Toronto, Canada. He earned his undergraduate degree at Adamjee Government Science College in Karachi, Pakistan and his medical degree (MBBS) in Medicine, Surgery, Gynecology, Eye, ENT, and Pediatrics at the Dow Medical College in Karachi. Dr. Husain obtained a Masters in Science Degree in Clinical Trials at the University of Pittsburgh, PA. He completed his internship in General Medicine and Surgery at the Civil Hospital in Karachi and his registrarship in Urology and Transplant at Sindh Institute of Urology and Transplantation in Karachi, followed by a residency in Internal Medicine at Cook County Hospital, Chicago, Illinois, where he was also Chief Medical Resident. Dr. Husain also completed a fellowship in infectious diseases at the University of Pittsburgh. Dr. Husain's research interests include assessment of biological markers of invasive fungal and viral infections in solid organ transplant recipients, infectious etiology of obliterative bronchiolitis in lung transplant recipients, the use of inhaled antifungals and antibiotics for the treament and prophylaxis in immunocompromised hosts, and the epidemiology and outcomes of fungal and viral infections in immunocompromised hosts. |
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Ohio State University Medical Center Columbus, Ohio, USA 614-293-5666 stanley.martin@osumc.edu |
Stanley Martin, MD, is an Assistant Professor in the Division of Internal Medicine at The Ohio State University Medical Center. Dr. Martin has a clinical and research interest in infectious diseases related to non-HIV immunocompromised hosts. His work and training have focused mainly on patients undergoing solid organ and bone marrow transplantation. His research interests have included molecular virology in transplantation, xenotransplantation, and infectious complications of monoclonal antibody therapy.
Dr. Martin earned his MD at the University of Tennessee and subsequently completed his internship and residency in Internal Medicine at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN. He went on to complete an infectious diseases fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, MA. |
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