Who's Who

LAWRENCE C. MADOFF
Editor, ProMED-mail, ISID (Mod.LM)
Professor of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases and Immunology
University of Massachusetts Medical School Boston, Massachusetts, USA


MARJORIE P. POLLACK
Deputy Editor, ProMED-mail, ISID (Mod.MPP)
Independent consultant medical epidemiologist with a focus on developing world issues following CDC training
New York City, New York, USA


STUART HANDYSIDES
Associate Editor, ProMED-mail (Mod.SH)
General practitioner
Former editor (based at the PHLS Communicable Disease Surveillance Centre, London) of the Communicable Disease Report, Communicable Disease and Public Health, and Eurosurveillance Weekly
Buntingford, England, United Kingdom


DONALD KAYE
Associate Editor, ProMED-mail (Mod.DK)
Professor of Medicine
Drexel University College of Medicine
Formerly Professor and Chairman, Department of Medicine
MCP Hahnemann School of Medicine
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA


DANIEL S. SHAPIRO
Associate Editor, ProMED-mail
Adjunct Associate Professor of Medicine
Boston University School of Medicine
Director of Clinical Microbiology Laboratory
Lahey Clinic
Burlington, Massachusetts, USA


JACK WOODALL
Associate Editor, ProMED-mail (Mod.JW)
Director, Nucleus for the Investigation of Emerging Infectious Diseases
Institute of Medical Biochemistry, Center for Health Sciences
Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Formerly Director, Arbovirus Laboratory
New York State Department of Health, Albany, NY, USA
Scientist, Division of Epidemiological Surveillance & Health Situation & Trend Assessment, WHO/Geneva
Director, San Juan Laboratories, CDC, Puerto Rico
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil


Moderators, Correspondents, Policy Committee Members

RODRIGO NOGUEIRA ANGERAMI
ProMED-PORT Moderator (Mod.RNA)
State University of Campinas - UNICAMP
Campinas, SP, Brazil


BATYRBEK ASLANOV
ProMED-RUS Correspondent (Corr.BA)
Associate Professor, Department of Epidemiology
Saint-Petersburg Mechnikov State Medical Academy
Saint-Petersburg, Russia


YIN MYO AYE
PRO/MBDS (Mekong Basin Disease Surveillance) Moderator (Mod.YMA)
Bangkok, Thailand


SUSAN BAEKELAND
Correspondent, ProMED-mail, plant and animal diseases (Corr.SB)
10 years in research in tick-borne diseases and leishmania. Co-operated with University of Zaragoza, Department of Parasitology, University of Granada, Spain, and the Veterinary University Department of Pathology, Athens, Georgia, USA. Parasite named after her awarded by the University of Zaragoza, Department of Parasitology: Ewingana_(Doreyana)_baekalandae, parasitic mite of molossid bats.
Normandy, France


PABLO BELDOMENICO
ProMED-mail Wildlife Moderator (Mod.PMB)
Career Investigator (Investigador Adjunto), Argentine Council for Science and Technology (CONICET), Wildlife Epidemiologist for Latin America for the Wildlife Conservation Society, and Adjunct Professor of Wildlife Health, Facultad de Ciencias Veterinarias at the Universidad Nacional del Litoral (FCV-UNL), Argentina.


TIMOTHY BREWER
ProMED-mail Policy Committee
Director, International Health Office and Associate Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology
McGill University Medical School
Montreal, Quebec, Canada


SAIPIN CHOTIVICHIEN
PRO/MBDS (Mekong Basin Disease Surveillance) Moderator (Mod.SCM)
Los Angeles, CA, USA


SIDI COULIBALY
ProMED-FRA (Francophone Africa) Moderator (Mod.SC)
Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso


PETER COWEN
ProMED-mail Animal Disease Assistant Moderator (Mod.PC)
Associate Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health, College of Veterinary Medicine
North Carolina State University
Raleigh, North Carolina, USA


LUIZ JACINTHO DA SILVA
ProMED-PORT Moderator (Mod.LJS)
Professor of Infectious Diseases, Department of Clinical Medicine
Faculty of Medical Sciences - UNICAMP
Sao Paulo, Brazil


THANIS DAMRONGWATANAPOKIN
PRO/MBDS (Mekong Basin Disease Surveillance) Veterinary Moderator (Mod.TD)
Bangkok, Thailand


FABIAN EKUE
ProMED-FRA (Francophone Africa) Veterinary Moderator (Mod.FE)
Yaoundé, Cameroon


BENSON ESTAMBALE
ProMED-EAFR (Anglophone Africa) Moderator (Mod.BE)
Nairobi, Kenya


AMY GALBLUM
Program Coordinator, ISID
Boston, Massachusetts, USA


TAM GARLAND
ProMED-mail Animal Disease and Zoonoses Moderator (Mod.TG)
Professor, College of Veterinary Medicine
Texas A&M University
College Station, Texas, USA


JORGE GONZALEZ-MENDOZA
ProMED-ESP Moderator (Mod.JG)
Head, Executive Office for Technical Cooperation, and Consultant in Clinical Infectious Diseases
Peruvian National Institutes of Health
Part-time Clinical Instructor in Infectious Diseases, Institute of Tropical Medicine Alexander von Humboldt
Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia
Lima, Peru


EDUARDO GOTUZZO
Chairman, ProMED-mail Policy Committee
Director, Institute of Tropical Medicine Alexander von Humboldt
Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia
Head, Department of Transmissible and Dermatology Diseases, Hospital Nacional Cayetano Heredia
Lima, Peru


DAGMAR HANOLD
ProMED-mail Plant Disease Moderator (Mod.DHA)
Department of Applied & Molecular Ecology, School of Agriculture and Wine
University of Adelaide
Adelaide, South Australia, Australia


MARTIN HUGH-JONES
ProMED-mail Animal Disease Assistant Moderator (Mod.MHJ)
Director, WHO Collaborating Center for Reference and Training in Remote Sensing and Geographic Information Systems for Veterinary Public Health
Coordinator, Anthrax Research & Control Working Group
Louisiana State University
Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA


MARIA JACOBS
ProMED-mail Senior Technical Editor (Sr.Tech.Ed.MJ)
Zurich, Switzerland


MATTHEW LEVISON
ProMED-mail Bacterial Disease Moderator (Mod.ML)
Professor of Public Health
Drexel University School of Public Health
Adjunct Professor of Medicine, Formerly Chief, Division of Infectious Diseases
Drexel University College of Medicine
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA


LARRY I. LUTWICK
ProMED-mail Bacterial Disease Moderator (Mod.LL)
Director, Infectious Diseases
VA New York Harbor Health Care System (Brooklyn Campus)
Professor of Medicine
State University of New York - Downstate Medical Center
Brooklyn, New York, USA


BOUBACAR MAIGA
ProMED-FRA (Francophone Africa) Moderator (Mod.BM)
Bamako, Mali


VADIM MELNIK
ProMED-RUS Correspondent (Corr.VM)
Department of Medical Epidemiology
Donetsk Medical University
Donetsk, Ukraine


STEPHEN S. MORSE
ProMED-mail Policy Committee
Professor
Columbia University School of Public Health
New York, New York, USA


NIWAEL MTUI-MALAMSHA
ProMED-EAFR (Anglophone Africa) Veterinary Moderator (Mod.NM)
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania


JONATHAN NASH
ProMED-mail Computer Support
Baltimore, Maryland, USA


QUOC CUONG NGUYEN
PRO/MBDS (Mekong Basin Disease Surveillance) Moderator (Mod.QCN)
Hanoi, Vietnam


ESKILD PETERSEN
ProMED-mail Parasitic Diseases Moderator (Mod.EP)
Specialist of Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine
Department of Infectious Diseases
Aarhus University Hospital
Skejby, Aarhus, Denmark


CRAIG R. PRINGLE
ProMED-mail Viral Diseases Moderator (Mod.CP)
Emeritus Professor, Biological Sciences Department
University of Warwick
Formerly at the Medical Research Council Virology Unit, Glasgow, and the Animal Virus Research Institute, Pirbright
Formerly Secretary of the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses
Coventry, England, United Kingdom


ED J. PRUCHA
ProMED-mail Copy Editor (CopyEd.EJP)
New Harbor, Maine, USA


NATALIA PSHENICHNAYA
ProMED-RUS Associate Moderator and Translator (Mod.NP)
Professor, Head of Infectious Diseases and Epidemiology Department,
Rostov State Medical University
Rostov-on-Don, Russia


NILUFAR RAKHMANOVA
ProMED-mail Russian translator and Newly Independent States Moderator (Mod.NR)
Quality Improvement Specialist, Instructor on Introduction to Epidemiology
Tashkent, Uzbekistan


ALLAN RONALD
ProMED-mail Policy Committee
Distinguished Professor, Medical Microbiology and Internal Medicine, Emeritus
Department of Infectious Diseases, St. Boniface Hospital
University of Manitoba
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada


BARBARA HATCH ROSENBERG
ProMED-mail Policy Committee
Professor
State University of New York at Purchase
Purchase, New York, USA


ARNON SHIMSHONY
ProMED-mail Animal Disease and Zoonoses Moderator (Mod.AS, arn)
Associate-Professor, Koret School of Veterinary Medicine
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Jerusalem, Israel


MARK SPRINKLE
ProMED-mail Copy Editor (CopyEd.MSP)
Freeport, Maine, USA


ARTAK STEPANYAN
ProMED-RUS Correspondent (Corr.ATS)
Department of Infectious Diseases
Yerevan State Medical University
Yerevan, Armenia


PHIL TEMPLES
ProMED-mail Technical support & List management
UNIX Systems Administrator Consultant
Boston, Massachusetts, USA


JAIME TORRES
ProMED-ESP Moderator (Mod.JT)
President, Emerging Diseases Committee
Pan American Infectious Disease Society
Caracas, Venezuela


JOSEPH FRANCIS WAMALA
ProMED-EAFR (Anglophone Africa) Moderator (Mod.JFW)
Kampala, Uganda


TOM YUILL
ProMED-mail Viral Diseases Moderator (Mod.TY)
Professor Emeritus, Department of Animal Health and Biomedical Sciences,
Department of Wildlife Ecology
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Madison, Wisconsin, USA


ProMED-mail RAPPORTEURS

(Volunteers who provide regular services)

A-LAN BANKS
Websearcher
Senior Analyst, Core Pharma Patents, Thomson Scientific Glasgow
Epidemiologist, Healthcare Associated Infection and Infection Control, Health Protection Scotland
Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom


BRENT BARRETT
Websearcher
Indianapolis, Indiana, USA


JOSEPH DUDLEY
Research Associate
Institute of Arctic Biology, University of Alaska Fairbanks
Department of Earth Science, University of Alaska Museum
Fairbanks, Alaska, USA


ANGELA HUANG
Taiwan


MARIANNE HOPP
WHO notifications


MARY MARSHALL
Websearcher
European Union funded Foot & Mouth Disease and
Classical Swine Fever Coordination Action participant
United Kingdom


GEORGE A. ROBERTSON, PhD
Senior Technical Advisor
Vaccine Development Global Program
PATH


DAN SILVER
Chinese-language Web Researcher
USA


VERN WEITZEL
PRO/MBDS Websearcher
Director
Australia Viet Nam Science Technology Link
Belconnen, Australian Capital Territory, Australia