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Cape Town

  • Professor Karen Barnes
  • Professor Linda-Gail Bekker
  • Professor Mark Cotton
  • Professor Gary Maartens
  • Professor Graeme Meintjes
  • Professor Marc Mendelson
  • Professor Mark Nicol
  • Ms Michelle Osborne
  • Dr Jo-Ann Passmore
  • Professor Wolfgang Preiser
  • Dr Gert van Zyl
  • Dr Peter Vincent
  • Ms Yolande Walsh
  • Dr Digby Warner
  • Professor Rob Warren
  • Dr Tom Boyles

Gauteng

  • Mr Geoff Abbott
  • Professor Theunis Avenant
  • Mrs Lee Baker
  • Mrs Neetha Bhojraj Sewpershad
  • Professor Lucille Blumberg
  • Dr Adrian Brink
  • Mrs Joy Cleghorn
  • Dr Jennifer Coetzee
  • Dr Albie de Frey
  • Ms Reena Dhilraj
  • Professor Adriano Duse
  • Professor John Frean
  • Dr Nelesh Govender
  • Professor Anwar Hoosen
  • Dr Bavesh Kana
  • Professor Lizette Koekemoer
  • Mr Danie Kruger
  • Professor David Lewis
  • Mrs Vanessa Maseko
  • Professor Mervyn Mer
  • Professor Jeffrey Mphahlele
  • Mrs Bridget Shandukani
  • Professor Bob Swanepoel
  • Dr Juno Thomas
  • Dr Dena van den Bergh
  • Professor Francois Venter
  • Dr Anne von Gottenberg
  • Dr Inge Zietsman

KwaZulu Natal

  • Dr Teke Apalata
  • Dr Moherndran Archary
  • Professor Dean Goldring
  • Dr Yesholata Mahabeer
  • Ms Manta Makume
  • Professor Preshine Moodley
  • Professor Yunus Moosa
  • Dr Jaishree Raman
  • Professor Adriaan Willem Sturm

 

Ms. Horan joined the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Atlanta Georgia, in 1984 as Surveillance Coordinator in the Hospital Infections Program (now the Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion). During her 26 years at CDC, she has played an integral role in the development of national surveillance systems for healthcare-associated infections. Ms. Horan has spent her career promoting the value of surveillance data as a local and national performance improvement tool through her lectures, consults, and publications. From 2000 - 2009, Ms. Horan lead the development team that integrated and expanded the Division’s existing surveillance systems into a single Internet-based system called the National Healthcare Safety Network, or NHSN. Currently, she leads the NHSN Training and User Support Team. Ms. Horan is an Adjunct Instructor in the Department of Epidemiology at Emory University’s Rollins School of Public Health. She is also a Captain in the U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps. Her work has been recognized with numerous awards, including two from the Secretary of the US Department of Health and Human Services, as well as the Carole DeMille Achievement Award and the Elaine Larson Lectureship from the Association for Professionals in Infection Control.



Dr. Francis J. Ndowa
Coordinator, STI Team,
Department of Reproductive Health and Research,
World Health Organization,
Geneva
 
Dr. Francis Ndowa is a Medical Officer in the Department of Reproductive Health and Research of the World Health Organization (WHO) in Geneva. He is the Coordinator of the Controlling Sexually Transmitted and Reproductive Tract Infections (STI) Team which has its primary role divided into thematic areas under: (1) Control of sexually transmitted infections; (2) Global elimination of congenital syphilis initiative; (3) Prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV research; (4) Microbicides; (5) Human papillomavirus vaccines and cervical cancer prevention; and (6) Safety and standards for male circumcision and male and female condoms. 
 
In 1996 he joined the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) as the STI and Reproductive Health Advisor, and subsequently moved in 2000 with the STI unit from UNAIDS into WHO in the Department of HIV/AIDS where he was primarily responsible for STI work within the Prevention Team of the Department. In 2002 STI-related activities were incorporated into the WHO Department of Reproductive Health and Research.
 
Dr. Ndowa qualified as a medical doctor in 1977 at the University of Birmingham, England, and holds postgraduate Diploma in Dermatology and a Diploma in Genito-urinary Medicine (London, UK). He worked extensively in the areas of chest infections and diseases, rheumatology, dermatology, STI, HIV and AIDS in the United Kingdom before returning to Zimbabwe in 1983.



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Dr James K. Todd, MD is Professor of Pediatrics, Microbiology and Epidemiology at the University of Colorado School of Medicine and Colorado School of Public Health. Dr. Todd is certified by the American Board of Pediatrics in pediatrics and infectious diseases, and has served on numerous committees of the American Academy of Pediatrics, and the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society. Over the course of his career, he has maintained a strong interest in the pathophysiology, diagnosis, and treatment of bacterial diseases including bacteremia, meningitis, and shock, with an emphasis on streptococcal and staphylococcal diseases. Dr. Todd was awarded a special citation by the Infectious Diseases Society of America for the original description of Toxic Shock Syndrome and recently received the Distinguished Physician Award of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society.

In 2003, Dr. Todd was named the Jules Amer Chair in Community Pediatrics at The Children’s Hospital and created the State of the Health of Colorado’s Children program to analyze local data to measure and improve the health outcomes of children in Colorado. He has been a tireless advocate for high quality, medical home healthcare for all children. His recently published book, On Track to Quality (Lighthouse Point Press, 2006), addresses the definition of quality in healthcare, business, and personal life.




Professor Nicholas White, OBE DSc MD FRCP FMed Sci FRS is Professor of Tropical Medicine at the Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University and Oxford University, and is also a Consultant Physician at the John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, UK. He has lived in Thailand and worked in the Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University since 1980. Professor White chairs the Wellcome Trust Tropical Medicine Research Programme in South-East Asia, and the Oxford Tropical Medicine Network (encompassing research groups in Thailand, Vietnam, Laos, Kenya and The Gambia). He also currently co-chairs the World Health Organisation antimalarial treatment guidelines committee and the WHO Global Malaria Programme case management cluster. His principal research interests are malaria, particularly the pathophysiology and treatment of malaria, and also other severe tropical infectious diseases (melioidosis, typhoid, pyogenic, tuberculous and fungal meningitis, dengue, viral encephalitis, pneumococcal infections, diphtheria, and tetanus). He is currently on the Editorial or Advisory Boards of 11 scientific journals including The Lancet, PLOS Medicine, the European Journal of Clinical Pharmacology and Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy. He has published over 760 scientific papers and over 39 book chapters.