ISAC satellite symposia speakers
Susan Huang
Biography
Susan Huang, MD MPH is Chancellor’s Professor of Medicine in the Division of Infectious Diseases at the University of California Irvine (UCI) School of Medicine, and Medical Director of Epidemiology and Infection Prevention at UCI Health. For the past 20 years, Dr. Huang has been studying healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) with a focus on multidrug-resistant organisms (MDROs). Her clinical epidemiologic research seeks to identify the burden and risk factors for acquisition and disease, and preventative strategies for containment. Dr. Huang has led several large randomized clinical trials involving decolonization to prevent MRSA disease and other HAIs. She also studies regional prevention of MDROs in hospitals and nursing homes through epidemiologic studies as well as simulation models. Dr. Huang has over 200 publications and has received a Top 10 U.S. Clinical Research Achievement Award from the Clinical Research Forum. Dr. Huang is a voting member of the Presidential Advisory Council on Combatting Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria (PACCARB) and has served as a past member of the U.S. Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee (HICPAC), the U.S. CDC Antibiotic Resistance Working Group, and the IDSA Antibiotic Resistance Committee.Margaret Ip
Biography
Professor, Department of Microbiology, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong Honorary Consultant, Dept of Microbiology, Prince of Wales Hospital, Hong Kong.Margaret Ip is a Professor at the Department of Microbiology, Chinese University of Hong Kong and Honorary Consultant at the Prince of Wales Hospital, Hong Kong. She received her medical training at the University of Southampton and London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, United Kingdom. She is a clinical microbiologist with experience in research on the epidemiology and antimicrobial resistance of clinically important bacterial pathogens, inc. MRSA and S. pneumoniae. She has a strong interest in the development and assessment of clinical diagnostic methods and new treatment modalities. She has published over 210 peer-reviewed papers and 5 book chapters. She serves as Advisor and Member in a number of Scientific Committees on antimicrobial resistance and infection control and Associate Editors to Frontiers Microbiology and BMC Infectious Diseases, among others.
Andreas Voss
Biography
Andreas Voss MD, PhD is professor and chair of the Department of Medical-Microbiology and Infection Control at the University Medical Center Groningen, The Netherlands. His expertise is in the field of infection prevention and control, in particular the epidemiology of antimicrobial resistance, hand hygiene and behavior change.
Currently, he is past-president of the International Society of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy (ISAC) and past board member of many national and international societies such as the Dutch Society for Medical Microbiology, the European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ESCMID), the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA), and the Infection Control African Netwerk (ICAN). He is the chair of the cooperative (SRI) in charge of the Dutch infection control guidelines for all echelons of healthcare.
Andreas Voss was the co-founder of the International Conference on Infection Control and Prevention (ICPIC) and Founding Editor of the BMC journal Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control (www.ARICjournal.com). He has >350 peer-reviewed journal publications to his name.