Organising Committee

Graeme Nimmo
Pathology Queensland Central Laboratory, Queensland

Geoffrey Coombs
PathWest Laboratory Medicine - Royal Perth Hospital, Western Australia

Keryn Christiansen
PathWest Laboratory Medicine - Royal Perth Hospital, Western Australia

John Turnidge
Women's and Children's Hospital, South Australia

Georg Peters
University Hospital of Munster, Germany

Henri Verbrugh
Erasmus University Medical Center, The Netherlands

International Scientific Committee

Dr Arnold Bayer
Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, United States of America

Prof Brigitte Berger-Bachi
University of Zurich, Switzerland

Dr Mark Enright
Imperial College London, United Kingdom

Dr Vance Fowler
Duke University Medical Centre, United States of America

Dr Ian Gould
Abederdeen Rotal Infirmary, United Kingdom

Prof Mathias Herrmann
University of Saarland Hospital, Germany

Prof Keiichi Hiramatsu
Juntendo University, Japan

Dr Teruyo Ito
Juntendo University, Japan

Dr Barry Kreiswirth
New Jersey Medical School, United States of America

Dr Jodi Lindsay
St George's University of London, United Kingdom

Prof Victor Lim
International Medical University, Malaysia

Dr Duarte Oliveira
Instituto de Technologia Quimica e Biologica, Portugal

Dr Wing Hong Seto
Queen Mary Hospital, Hong Kong SAR, China

Dr Robert Skov
Statens Serum Institut, Denmark

Dr Fred Tenover
Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, United States of America

Prof Alex van Belkum
Erasmus Medical Center, The Netherlands

Prof Francois Vandenesch
University of Lyon, France

Australian Scientific Committee

Dr Neville Firth
University of Sydney, New South Wales

Dr Phil Giffard
Queensland University of Technology, Queensland

A/Prof Tom Gottlieb
Concord Hospital, New South Wales

Dr Benjamin Howden
Austin Health, Victoria.

A/Prof Paul Johnson
Austin Health, Victoria

Prof Thomas Riley
University of Western Australia, Western Australia