Meet our Board Members
ISSTDR Board
Our comprehensive suite of professionals caters to a diverse team, ranging from Professors, Doctors and other clinicians.
Professor Eric Chow
President and ISSTDR Foundation Member
Professor and Unit Head
Monash University and Melbourne Sexual Health Centre, Victoria, Australia
Sunil Sethi
President-Elect
Professor
Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER), Chandigarh, India
Barbara Van Der Pol
Immediate Past President,
Secretary-General and and ISSTDR Conference Support Foundation Secretary
Professor of Medicine
University of Alabama at Birmingham,
Alabama, USA
Caroline Cameron
Past-President and ISSTDR Conference
Support Foundation Chair
Professor of Microbiology
University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
Marc Steben
Member
Professor of Medicine
Université de Montréal, Quebec, Canada
Lenka Vodstrcil
Member
Senior Researcher
Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Anna Maria Gerretti
Member
Professor of Infectious DiseasesSapienza University of Rome, Italy and King’s College London, UK
Fabian Kong
Member
ISSTDR Conference Support Foundation Member Associate Professor University of Melbourne, Australia
Chelsea Morroni
Member
Professor of Global Sexual and Reproductive Health, University of Edinburgh, UK
Director, Botswana Sexual & Reproductive Health Research Initiative, Botswana Harvard Health Partnership
Pingyu Zhou
Member
Professor of Medicine
Tong Ji University School of Medicine,
Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine
China
Alison Footman
Member
Senior Program Manager of STIs AVAC
Angelica Espinosa Miranda
Member
Professor Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo, Brazil
Pr Cécile Bébéar
Member
Head of the Department of Bacteriology, Bordeaux University Hospital
Head of the French National Center for bacterial STIs
Edmond Choi
Member
Associate Professor
The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Helena Seth-Smith
Member
Professor of Medical Microbiology
University of Zurich, Switzerland
Karen Lithgow
Member
Assistant Professor
Dalhousie University, Canada
Leandro Mena
Member
Professor of Medicine
Emory University, USA
Katherine Gill
Member
Clinical Research Lead
Institute of Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine, Cape Town, South Africa
Oriol Mitjà
Member
Professor of Infectious Diseases & Global Health,
Autonomous University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
Observers
IUSTI-World
Professor Kit Fairley
IUSTI World President
Professor of Public Health
Melbourne Sexual Health Centre, Bayside Health, Melbourne, Australia
School of Translational Medicine, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
WHO
Remco Peters
WHO
Department for HIV, TB, Hepatitis and STIs
World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland