Who We Are
Board Of Directors
The MSGERC is governed by an international Board of Directors. Elections are held biannually. The Board, Executive Director, and MSGERC headquarters office work together to direct the association’s activities. More information is available in the MSGERC Board Job Descriptions.
President
George R. Thompson III, MD
Professor of Medicine
UC Davis School of Medicine
Sacramento, California, USA
President Elect
Marisa Miceli, MD
Clinical Professor of Internal Medicine
University of Michigan Medical School
Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
Immediate Past President
Dimitrios Kontoyiannis, MD
Professor
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Houston, Texas, USA
Secretary
llan Schwartz, MD, PhD
Associate Professor of Medicine
Duke University Medical Center
Durham, North Carolina, USA
Treasurer
Monica Slavin, MBBS, MD
Director of Infectious Diseases
Peter MacCallum Cancer Center
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Member at Large
Neil Clancy, MD
Professor of Medicine
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Member at Large
Fariba Donovan, MD, PhD
Associate Professor of Medicine
The University of Arizona College of Medicine Tucson
Tucson, Arizona, USA
Member at Large
Shahid Husain, MD
Professor of Medicine
University of Toronto
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Member at Large
Julia Messina, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine
Duke University School of Medicine
Durham, North Carolina, USA
Member at Large
Andrej Spec, MD
Professor of Medicine
Washington University School of Medicine
St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Member at Large
Jose Vazquez, MD
Professor of Medicine
Medical College of Georgia
Augusta, Georgia, USA
Member at Large
Thomas Walsh, MD
Founding Director
Center for Innovative Therapeutics and Diagnostics
Richmond, Virginia, USA
Member at Large
Nathan Wiederhold, PharmD
Professor of Pathology
The University of Texas at San Antonio Long School of Medicine
San Antonio, Texas, USA
Non-Voting Members
Executive Director
Carolynn Thomas Jones, DNP
Associate Professor of Clinical Nursing
The Ohio State University College of Nursing
UAB School of Nursing
Birmingham, Alabama, USA
Scientific Chair
Peter Pappas, MD
Professor
University of Alabama at Birmingham
MSGERC Scientific Committee Chair
Birmingham, Alabama, USA
Educational Liaison
Lisa A. Tushla, PhD
President
Terranove Medica
Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA
CDC Liaison to the MSGERC Board of Directors
Acting Deputy Branch Chief
Meghan Lyman, MD
Centers for Disease Control
Atlanta, Georgia, USA