SIR MACFARLANE BURNET SPEAKER:
Eduardo Gotuzzo, M.D.
Director, Instituto de Medicina Tropical, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Herediam
Lima, Peru
Eduardo Gotuzzo is the Principal Professor of Medicine, Infectious Diseases, and Tropical
Medicine at Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia in Lima, Peru, where he also directs
the first ID residency program in that country. He also serves as director of both the
Alexander von Humboldt Institute of Tropical Medicine and the Gorgas Course in
Clinical Tropical Medicine.
A past president of ISID, Dr. Gotuzzo is also former president of the Peruvian Society
for Internal Medicine and the PanAmerican Infectious Diseases Association.
With more than 250 publications to his credit, Dr. Gotuzzo’s longtime research
interests -- enteric diseases, TB, HIV, and emerging diseases -- have broadened to
include analyzing recurrent clinical patterns among one of the largest cohorts of
HTLV-I patients.
Dr. Gotuzzo is active on the editorial boards of such journals as Infectious Diseases
for Clinical Practice and Journal of Travel Medicine. He is an honorary member of
the ASTMH, an associate member of the National Academy of Medicine, and a
member of the Institute of Medicine’s Forum on Emerging Infections.
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:
Professor Andreas Voss is the Head of Infection Control, Canisius-Wilhelmina Hospital & University Medical Centre St Radboud, Nijmegen, The Netherlands. He is a published authority on health-care-associated infections and has been instrumental in the documentation of the role of veterinary carriage of antimicrobial-resistant organisms. Author of more than 90 scientific and review articles, he also serves the European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases as current Program Director of ECCMID and past president of the society.
Dr Annette Sohn is the
Director of TREAT Asia, a global initiative of amfAR (The Foundation for
AIDS Research), Bangkok, Thailand.
TREAT Asia is a network of adult and paediatric clinics, hospitals,
and research institutions working with civil society to ensure the
safe and effective delivery of HIV treatment in Asia and the Pacific
through research, education, and community support activities.
Dr Sohn’s previous projects in Vietnam have included studies of
diagnostic and monitoring testing in HIV exposed infants, and stigma
and discrimination experienced by women accessing prevention of
mother-to-child transmission services. She also has an appointment
as Assistant Clinical Professor in the Department of Paediatrics at the
University of California, San Francisco.