Committees

Organizing Committee

Bülent Berkarda – Congress President
Özdem Anğ – Congress Vice-President
O. Şadi Yenen – Secretary General
Helen Giamarellou – President of FESCI
Giovanni Russo – President of MSC

FESCI Executive Committee

Helen Giamarellou – President
Bernard Rouveix - Past President
Juan Jose Picazo - Vice President
Andrea Novelli - Secretary General
Milan Cizman - Treasurer
Özdem Anğ
Jette Elizabeth Kristiansen
Alasdair MacGowan
Krassimir Metodiev
Bernhard Ruf
Jean-Pierre Sollet
Stefan Tyski

MSC Executive Committee

Giovanni Russo - President
John Kosmidis – Past President
George Petrikkos – Secretary General
Erdal Akalın
Dan Engelhard
Andrea Novelli
José Prieto Prieto
Saida Ben Redjeb
Atef M. Shibl

Local Scientific Committee

Bülent Berkarda – Congress President
Özdem Anğ – Congress Vice-President
O. Şadi Yenen – Secretary General

Erdal Akalın
Murat Akova
Gül Başaran
Gökhan Demir
Haluk Eraksoy
Ayşe Kaypmaz
Nil Molinas Mandel
Haluk Onat
Süheyla Serdengeçti

Honorary Advisory Committee

G.K. Daikos
J.C.Pechère
K.G. Naber
G. Cornaglia
T. Mazzei
A. Geddes


International Advisory Committee

A. Ahmed (Pakistan)
H. Akalın (Turkey)
H. Al Ansari (Bahreyn)
F. Amer (Egypt)
C. Ayaz (Turkey)
S. Badur (Turkey)
Ç. Bal (Turkey)
R. F. Bakemeier (USA)
F. Baquero (Spain)
H. Basiaris (Greece)
B. Beovic (Slovenia)
Ç. Büke (Turkey)
P. Courvalin (France)
Y. Çakaloğlu (Turkey)
Ş. Çavuşoğlu (Turkey)
R. Dagan (Israel)
G.L. Daikos (Greece)
E. De Clerq
F. Demirelli (Turkey)
G. Drusano ( USA)
D. Engelhard (Israel)
S. Erensoy (Turkey)
O. Ergönül (Turkey)
S. Esposito (Italy)
R. Feld (Canada)
D. Fırat (Turkey)
A. Firsov (Russia)
J. Garau (Spain)
J.A.Garcia Rodriguez (Spain)
P. Gargialianos Kakolyris (Greece)
H. Gogos (Greece)
I. Gould (UK)
W. Graninger (Austria)
A. Hirschi (Austria)
B. Hoerni (France)
J. Kafetzis (Greece)
M. Kane (USA)
K. Kanellakopoulou (Greece)
S. Kanj (Lebanon)
E. Kansu (Turkey)
H. O. Klein (Germany)
J. Kosmidis (Greece)
P. Kosmidis (Greece)
V. Krcmery (Slovakia)
H. Lada (Greece)
A. Laugier (France)
M. Lazanas (Greece)
N. Legakis (Greece)
J. C. Lucet (France)
J. Martens (Belgium)
J. Meiss (Nederlands)
Z. A. Memish (Saudia Arabia)
E. Mini (Italy)
M.Mohraz (Iran)
R. MR. Moellering (USA)
J.W. Mouton (Netherlands)
P. Nikolaides (Greece)
P. Nordmann (France)
G. Pappas (Greece)
M. Paul (Israel)
G. Petrikkos (Cyprus)
G. Potamitis (Cyprus)
J. Robert (France)
E. Roilides (Greece)
E. Rubinstein (Canada-Israel)
G. Samonis (Greece)
F. Scaglione (Italy)
A. Schreiber (USA)
A. Shehabi (Jordan)
A. M. Shibl (Saudia Arabia)
V. Sidorenko(Russian Fed.)
F. Soergel (Germany)
S. Stefani (Italy)
A. Taher (Lebanon)
E. Topuz (Turkey)
A. Tsakris (Greece)
P.M. Tulkens (Belgium)
N. Uskent (Turkey)
P. Van Damme (Belgium)
C. Viscoli (Italy)
D. Yadegarynia (Iran)
A.Yüce (Turkey)
S. Zinner (USA)


FESCI Council 2008 Societies

  • Arab Society of Chemotherapy, Microbiology & Infectious Diseases
  • Association pour I'Organisation de Reunions Interdisciplinaires de&
         Chimiotherapie Anti-Infectieuse (AORIC)
  • Austrian Society of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy
  • British Society for Antimicrobial Chemotherapy
  • Bulgarian Society of Chemotherapy
  • Chemotherapists Association of Ukraine
  • Croatian Society of Chemotherapy
  • Czech Society for Infectious Disease
  • Czech Society of Chemotherapy
  • Cyprus Society for Chemotherapy and Infectious Diseases
  • Deutsche Gesellschaft für Infektiologie
  • Deutsche Gesellschaft für Pädiatrische Infektiologie
  • Deutsche Vereinigung zur Bekampfung der Viruskrankheiten
  • Dutch Society of Medical Microbiology
  • European Society for Clinical Virology
  • European Society for Pediatric Infectious Diseases
  • FIMUA - Italian Federation of Human and Animal Micopathology
  • Georgian Society of Pediatric Chemotherapy
  • Hellenic Society for Chemotherapy
  • Hellenic Society for Infectious Diseases
  • Hellenic Society for Microbiology
  • Hellenic Society for Pediatric Infectious Diseases
  • Hungarian Society for Chemotherapy
  • Infectionists Scientific Society of Republic Belarus
  • Infectious Disease Society of the Netherlands
  • Infectious Diseases Society of Turkey
  • Institute for Continuing Medical Education of Ioannina, Greece
  • International Society of Non-Antibiotic (ISN)
  • Inter-Regional Association for Clinical Microbiology and Antimicrobial
          Chemotherapy (Russia)
  • Israeli Society for Infectious Diseases
  • Italian Society of Chemotherapy
  • Italian Society of Microbiology
  • Lebanese Society for Infectious Diseases
  • Mediterranean Society of Chemotherapy
  • Moroccan Society of Chemotherapy
  • National Society of Chemotherapy of the Russian Federation
  • Norwegian Society for Medical Microbiology
  • Paul-Ehrlich-Gesellschaft für Chemotherapie e. V.
  • Polish Medical Association, Section of Chemotherapy
  • Portuguese Cancer Society
  • Portuguese Society of Infectious Diseases
  • Romanian Society for the Study of Chemotherapeutics
  • Scandinavian Society of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy
  • Scottish Microbiology Association
  • Slovak Medical Society of Infectiology
  • Slovak Society of Chemotherapy
  • Slovenian Society of Chemotherapy
  • Societé Française de Microbiologie
  • Spanish Society of Chemotherapy
  • Swiss Society of Infectious Diseases
  • Turkish Society of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy (ANKEM)
  • Turkish Society of Chemotherapy
  • Turkish Microbiological Society
  • Yugoslav Society of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy






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