Infectious Diseases in Solid-Organ Transplant Recipients A practical approach

Dr. Oriol Manuel works at the Lausanne University Hospital, Switzerland, as transplant infectious diseases specialist and clinical research scientist. His main interest has been in the area of clinical research involving viral infections in transplant recipients. He is interested in the epidemiology and preventive strategies for cytomegalovirus (CMV) disease in the transplant population, in particular on the use of immune monitoring for CMV. He has also published on influenza vaccination strategies after transplantation. He is “Privat-Docent” and “Maître d’enseignement et de recherche” of the University of Lausanne. He is the chairman of the European Study Group for Infections in Compromised Hosts (ESGICH) and member of the Scientific Committee of the Swiss Transplant Cohort Study (STCS).

Dr. Michael Ison is Medical Director of the Transplant & Immunocompromised Host Infectious Diseases Service, Northwestern University Comprehensive Transplant Center, Chicago, and Professor ofMedicine and Surgery. He obtained his medical degree at the University of South Florida College of Medicine and then completed an Internal Medicine Residency and a General Internal Medicine Fellowship at Oregon Health Sciences University.  He subsequently obtained his Master of Science in Health Evaluation Sciences and completed an Infectious Diseases Fellowship at the University of Virginia.  After additional training in Transplant Infectious Diseases at the Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School under the mentorship of 

Dr. Jay A. Fishman, he joined the faculty of the Divisions of Infectious Diseases and Organ Transplantation at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in 2005.