EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

Role

Start date

Name

Address

 Contact 

President

2023

Prof. Jo-Anne Dillon

Vaccine and Infectious Disease Organization, University of Saskatchewan 120 Veterinary Road Saskatoon, Canada

President - Elect

Web-master

2023

Prof. Christopher Fairley

Monash University, Melbourne Sexual Health Centre, Victoria, Australia

Secretary General

2023

Dr. Jackie Sherrard

Department of Sexual Health, Wycombe General Hospital, High Wycombe, UK

Treasurer and Newsletter Editor

2017

Prof. Jonathan Ross

Whittall Street Clinic, Whittall Street, Birmingham, UK

Assistant Secretary general co-opted

2023

Dr Usha Hartgill

Oslo University Hospital, Norway

Membership Secretary

2023

Dr Jason Ong

Monash University, Melbourne Sexual Health Centre, Victoria, Australia

Immediate Past President

2023

Dr. Janet Wilson

Department of Genitourinary Medicine, Leeds General Infirmary, Great George Street, Leeds, UK

Trustees of IUSTI World 2023-2024

Name

Date of appointment

Prof Jonathan Ross

10 July 2017

Dr Jackie Sherrard

15 July 2019

Prof Christopher Fairley

27 July 2023

Prof Jo-Anne Dillon

15 July 2019

Dr Janet Wilson

1 August 2013

Office BEARERS

Region

Start date

Name

Address

Other Role

REGIONAL DIRECTORS

Africa-MENA

2017

Dr. Francis Ndowa

Harare, Zimbabwe

Asia Pacific

2021

Prof Pingyu Zhou

Department of Sexually Transmitted Disease Institute, Shanghai, China

Europe

2021

Dr. Claudia Heller

Lainzer Straße 58, Vienna, Austria

Latin America & Caribbean

2023

Dr. Angelica Espinosa Miranda

Núcleo de Doenças  infecciosas – UFES, Maruípe, Vitória - ES, Brazil

North America

2024

Prof. Caroline Cameron

University of Victoria, Petch Bldg Room 207, Victoria BC Canada

REGIONAL COMMITTEE CHAIRS

Africa- MENA

2013

Dr. Amina Hansali

STIs Laboratory, Department of Bacteriology, National Institute of Hygiene, Rabat, Morocco

Asia Pacific

2024

Dr Catherine O'Connor

The Kirby Institute, Sydney, NSW, Australia

Europe

2021

Prof. George Sorin Tiplica

Dermatology 2, Colentina Clinical Hospital, "Carol Davila" University of Medicine and Pharmacy Bucharest, Romania

Latin America & Caribbean - co-opted

2023

Prof. Maria Luiza Bazzo

Molecular Biology, Microbiology, and Serology Laboratory - LBMMS,  Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil

North America

2023

Prof Abigail Norris Turner 

N 1144 Doan Hall
410 W. 10th Ave.
Columbus, Ohio 43210

COMMS ROLE

Sponsorship

2024

Caroline Cameron

Communications

2024

Ina Park

Membership

2023

Jason Ong

ELECTED MEMBER

Africa-MENA


Vacant



Africa-MENA

2017

Dr. Sara Lowe

Parirenyatwa HIV clinic, Harare, Zimbabwe

Africa-MENA

2019

Prof. Laith Abu-Raddad

Education City, Qatar Foundation, Doha, Qatar

Asia Pacific

2023

Dr Gilbert Yang

Manila, Philippines

Asia Pacific

2021

Prof Seema Sood

Al India Institute of Medical Science, New Delhi, India

Asia Pacific

2021

Prof Ligang Yang

Department of STD Clinic, Dermatology Hospital of Southern Medical University, Guangzhou 510091, China.

Europe

2021

Prof. Henry de Vries

Department of Dermatology, Amsterdam Institute for Infection and Immunity (AI-II), University of Amsterdam, Netherlands

Europe

2019

Dr. Jorgen S Jensen

Statens Serum Institut, Copenhagen, Denmark

Europe

2023

Dr Andy Winter

Sandyford Sexual Health, Glasgow, UK

Latin America & Caribbean

2017

Dr. Gloria Aguilar

Universidad Nacional de Caaguazu, Paraguay

Latin America & Caribbean

2017

Dr. Patricia Galarza

Instituto Nacional de Enfermedades Infecciosas, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Latin America & Caribbean

2017

Dr. Maria Eugenia Escobar

Asociación Argentina para el Estudio de Infecciones en Ginecología y Obstetricia y Control de Infecciones de Transmisión Sexual, Buenos Aires, Argentina

North America

2021

Prof Barbara Van Der Pol

Dept of Medicine and Public Health at the University of Alabama, Birmingham, USA

North America

2021

Dr Ina Park

University of San Francisco, California, USA

North America

Vacant


OFFICERS

2023

Prof. Jo-Anne Dillon

Vaccine and Infectious Disease Organization, University of Saskatchewan 120 Veterinary Road Saskatoon, Canada

President

2023

Prof. Christopher Fairley

Monash University, Melbourne Sexual Health Centre, Victoria, Australia

President - elect & Webmaster

2023

Dr. Jackie Sherrard

Department of Sexual Health, Wycombe General Hospital, High Wycombe, UK

Secretary General

2017

Prof. Jonathan Ross

Whittall Street Clinic, Whittall Street, Birmingham, UK

Treasurer & Newsletter editor

2023

Dr Usha Hartgill

Oslo University Hospital, Norway

Assistant Secretary general co-opted

2023

Dr. Jason Ong

Monash University, Melbourne Sexual Health Centre, Victoria, Australia

Membership secretary

2023

Dr Janet Wilson

Department of Genitourinary Medicine, Leeds General Infirmary, Great George Street, Leeds, UK

Immediate Past President

SENIOR COUNCILLORS

2024

Prof. Bradley Stoner

Department of Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences , Queen’s University, Kingston, ON  K7L 3N6   Canada

2023

Prof Charlotte Gaydos

Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

2023

Dr Kees Rietmeijer

Denver, Colorado, USA

2023

Dr Adele Benzaken

AIDS Healthcare Foundation, Manaus, Brazil

2007

Prof Thomas Quinn

National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Baltimore, MD, USA

2009

Sevgi Aral

Division of STD Prevention, CDC, Atlanta, Georgia, USA

2011

Prof Angelika Stary

Ambulatorium für Pilzinfektionen und andere Infektiose, Venero-dermatologische, Erkrankungen Franz Jonas, Vienna, Austria 

International League of Dermatological Societies

2011

Prof Mikhail Gomberg

Moscow Scientific and Practical Center of Dermatovenereology and Cosmetology, Moscow, Russia

2015

Prof Patricia J Garcia

School of Public Health, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Peru

2017

Dr. Raj Patel

Department of Genitourinary Medicine, Southampton University Hospitals, Southampton UK

2019

Prof David Lewis

Western Sydney Sexual Health Centre, Parramatta NSW, Australia

EX-OFFICIO OFFICERS

Dr. Nathalie Broutet

Department of Reproductive Health & Research, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland

WHO Medical Officer Responsible for STD

Dr. Teodora Wi

Department of Reproductive Health & Research, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland

WHO Medical Officer Responsible for STD

Dr Mark Steben

Montreal, Quebec, Canada

repesentative of ISSTDR

Scholarship Committee

Name

Title

Institution

Country

Year Joined

 Charlotte Gaydos, PhD MPH

 Professor Emeritus

Emeritus, Johns Hopkins

USA

2023

Sumudu R Perera, PhD

Research Scientist

MicrobeDx

Canada

2023

Kees Rietmeijer, MD PhD

 Professor Emeritus

Colorado School of Public Health

USA

2023

Kaushal Verma, MD FIMSA

 Professor

All India Institute of Medical Sciences

India

2023

Karen Lithgow, PhD

(co-chair)

Assistant  
Professor

Dalhousie University

Canada

2023

Jørgen Jensen, MD PhD DMedSci

 Professor

Statens Serum Institut

Denmark

2023

Erica Plummer, PhD

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Melbourne Sexual Health Centre

Australia

2024

Caroline Cameron, PhD

(co-chair)

Professor

University of Victoria

Canada

2023

Angelica Espinosa Miranda, MD PhD MSc

 Professor

Universidade Federal do Espirito Santo

Brazil

2024

Alison Footman, PhD MPH

Senior Program Manager of STIs

 Advocacy and Action for Sexually Transmitted Infection Prevention (AVAC)

USA

2024

Abigail Norris Turner, PhD

 Professor

ASTDA/Ohio State University

USA

2023