School of Medicine, Federal University of Minas Gerais

Professor at the School of Medicine of the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), Brazil. PhD in Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine. Professional expertise in transplant infection, quality and safety in transplantation, healthcare-associated infections and antimicrobial stewardship. Currently serves on the executive council of the TID section of TTS; President elected. Advisor of the Brazilian Transplant Infection Committee for the National Transplant Program. Board member of the Transplant Infection Committee (COINT) of the Brazilian Organ Transplant Association (ABTO), and a member of the ESCMID Study Group for Infections in Compromised Hosts – ESGICH. Associate Editor of Transplantation journal and part of the editorial team of Transplant Infectious Disease journal.

Infectious Diseases Physician, Royal Adelaide Hospital

Matt is an Infectious Diseases physician at the Royal Adelaide Hospital where his clinical work is focused on transplant and immunocompromised host infectious diseases. He completed subspeciality training in transplant and immunocompromised host infectious diseases at the Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School. Matt has research interests in vaccine responses in immunocompromised individuals. He sits on the council of the Transplant Infectious Diseases (TID) Section of the Transplantation Society and the committee of Immunocompromised Host Special Interest Group of the Australasian Society of Infectious Diseases (ASID).

Full Professor, MD PhD, Infectious Diseases, Université Paris Cité, Assistance Publique Hôpitaux de Paris, department of infectious diseases of Saint-Louis and Lariboisiere hospitals

David Lebeaux MD, PhD, started as a clinical fellow in the Infectious Diseases Unit at Necker Hospital before becoming Associate Professor in infectious diseases at the Clinical Microbiology Laboratory at HEGP in Paris. He is now full Professor in the department of infectious diseases of Saint-Louis and Lariboisiere hospitals. He is working on device-related infections and infections in immunocompromised hosts, especially nocardiosis. He is involved in teaching of infectious diseases at the Université Paris Cité and in national and international courses. He is a member of the "Unité de Génétique des Biofilms”, Institut Pasteur.

Julien Coussement, MD, PhD, Infectious Diseases physician, Dept. of Infectious Diseases, Guadeloupe University Hospital

Julien is a French Infectious Diseases (ID) physician working at the Guadeloupe University Hospital, in the French West Indies. After completing his ID training in 2017 at the Free University of Brussels in Belgium, Julien worked as an ID consultant at the Erasme University Hospital where he completed a PhD focusing on post-transplant urinary tract infections. Between 2020 and 2022, Julien did a fellowship at Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre in Melbourne, under the supervision of Prof. Monica Slavin. Julien is passionate about Transplant ID, and has had the privilege of coordinating several multinational research projects, including a French and Belgian randomised trial on asymptomatic bacteriuria after kidney transplantation, a European study on post-transplant nocardiosis, and an Australian and New Zealand study of HIV-negative patients with cryptococcosis.