Council members

  • President

    Arnaldo Colombo MD, Ph.D., FECMM
    • Contact Arnaldo Colombo

    Disciplina de Infectologia e Laboratório Especial de Micologia,
    Universidade Federal de São Paulo
    São Paulo, Brazil

    Website: https://colomboal.com.br/

  • President Elect

    Oliver Cornely MD, FACP, FIDSA, FAAM, FECMM
    • Profile
    Oliver Cornely

    Oliver Cornely is Director & Chair Translational Research at the CECAD Institute of the University of Cologne, and Scientific Director of the Center for Clinical Trials. Clinically, he serves as Infectious Diseases Consultant at the Department of Internal Medicine, at the University Hospital of Cologne, Germany.

    He is board certified in internal medicine, infectious diseases, haematology, oncology, and emergency medicine, and holds degrees in medical mycology and travel medicine.

    Originating from an HIV/AIDS clinical research group, Dr Cornely’s research interest centres on infections in immunocompromised hosts, including invasive fungal diseases, antimicrobial resistance and Clostridium difficile infection.

    Oliver Cornely is immediate-past President of the European Confederation of Medical Mycology (ECMM), the roof organization of 25 national mycology societies, and set up ECMM Guideline Program, ECMM Academy (Fellows program), and ECMM Excellence Center Initiative, designating clinical and microbiological excellence centres after an international audit procedure. He is currently on the Board of Directors of the US Mycoses Study Group Education & Research Consortium (MSGERC), is founder and chair of the Infectious Diseases Scientific Working Group of the European Hematology Association (EHA), and was recently elected as the Treasurer of the International Society for Human and Animal Mycology (ISHAM).

    Oliver Cornely coordinates guidelines on invasive fungal infections and currently collaborates with mycologists from more than 50 countries on tailoring management guidelines to health care settings throughout the world.

    He has published over 350 peer-reviewed articles, books, book chapters, and electronic media. He is a reviewer for numerous medical scientific journals, editorial board member for Haematologica, and Infectious Disease, and Editor-in-Chief of Mycoses.
    Contact Oliver Cornely

    Cluster of Excellence in Cellular Stress Responses in Aging-Associated Diseases (CECAD), University of Cologne
    Department I for Internal Medicine, Infectious Diseases, & Center for Clinical Trials, University Hospital of Cologne

    Kerpener Strasse 62
    50937 Cologne
    Germany

    Website: https://www.cecad.uni-koeln.de/research/principal-investigators/full-members/oliver-cornely
    Tel: +49 221 478 85523

  • Past President

    John Perfect MD
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    John Perfect

    John Perfect is the James B.Duke Professor of Medicine, Professor in Molecular Genetics and Microbiology in the Department of Medicine, Duke University School of Medicine. His research interests focus on antifungal agents and the molecular pathogenesis of Cryptococcus neoformans.
    Contact John Perfect
    Website: https://medicine.duke.edu/faculty/john-robert-perfect-md
    Tel: + 1 (919) 684-4016

  • Treasurer

    Cornelia Lass-Flörl MD, Ph.D., FAAM, FECMM, FIDSA, FESCMID
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    Cornelia Lass-Flörl

    Cornelia Lass-Flörl is the Director of the Institute of Hygiene and Medical Microbiology of the Department of Hygiene, Microbiology and Social Medicine at the Medical University of Innsbruck, Austria. She has specialised in the field of medical microbiology since graduating from the Faculty of Medicine at Leopold-Franzens-University of Innsbruck in 1986. She is Fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology, of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, of the European Confederation of Medical Mycology and of the Infectious Diseases Society of America. Professor Lass-Flörl has authored several journal articles, abstracts, and book chapters. In 2020, 2022, 2023 and 2024 she was placed on Clarivate Analytics’ list of highly cited researchers worldwide.

    Her teaching and clinical service responsibilities focus on the diagnosis of fungal infections in severely immunocompromised patients, with special interests in the epidemiology, diagnosis, prevention, and therapy of fungal infections. In addition, Professor Lass-Flörl’s work includes antifungal susceptibility testing and resistance in fungal pathogens.

    She is an esteemed member of the sub-committee on Antifungal Susceptibility Testing of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ESCMID) and the European Committee for Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing (EUCAST). She was chair of the executive board of the European Fungal Infection Study Group (EFISG) as well as chair of the European Confederation of Medical Mycology (ECMM) Subcommittee for the Evaluation of ECMM Excellence Centers. Presently, she leads the ISHAM Aspergillus terreus working group.
    Contact Cornelia Lass-Flörl

    Director, Institute of Hygiene and Medical Microbiology
    European Excellence Center of Medical Mycology (ECMM)
    Medical University of Innsbruck
    Schöpfstraße 41, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria

    Website: http://www.i-med.ac.at/hygiene
    Tel: +43 512 9003-70703

  • General Secretary

    Jacques Meis MD, Ph.D., FRCPath, FIDSA, FECMM, FAAM
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    Jacques Meis

    Jacques F. Meis received his PhD degree from the University of Nijmegen and his medical degree from Radboudumc followed by a specialist training fellowship at the Department of Medical Microbiology at Radboudumc, where he worked until 2000 as an associate professor. Among his mycology interests are treatment of fungal infections in intensive care patients and other compromised patients, resistance of filamentous fungi and molecular typing of fungi. Several articles on these and many other topics have been published in medical journals. He is past-president of the Dutch Society for Medical Mycology (1997-2011) and the European Confederation of Medical Mycology (2006-2012) and an elected fellow of the Infectious Diseases Society of America, Royal College of Pathologists, European Confederation of Medical Mycology and American Academy of Microbiology.
    Contact Jacques Meis

    Cluster of Excellence in Cellular Stress Responses in Aging-Associated Diseases (CECAD), University of Cologne
    Department I for Internal Medicine, Infectious Diseases, & Center for Clinical Trials, University Hospital of Cologne

    Kerpener Strasse 62
    50937 Cologne
    Germany

    Website: https://www.cecad.uni-koeln.de/research/translational-research/contact

  • Vice President – Website & Social Media

    Ferry Hagen Ph.D., FECMM, FESCMID
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    Ferry Hagen

    Ferry Hagen is group leader of the Department of Medical Mycology at the Westerdijk Fungal Biodiversity Institute (WI-KNAW), Utrecht, The Netherlands. He obtained his Bachelor’s degree in Molecular Biology at the University of Applied Sciences Utrecht in 2005, and a year later he started with his Ph.D. project at the CBS-KNAW Fungal Biodiversity Center in Utrecht, The Netherlands. The focus of this research project was the molecular epidemiology of the Cryptococcus gattii species complex, with an emphasis on the outbreaks in temperate climate zones. In 2011 he received his Ph.D. degree from Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands, and directly thereafter he started with a traineeship at the Canisius Wilhelmina Hospital (Nijmegen, The Netherlands) to become a medical molecular microbiologist. Since 2022 he is appointed as special chair professor ‘Fungal Functional Diversity’ at the Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics at the University of Amsterdam. The molecular epidemiology and molecular diagnostics of fungal pathogens are his main interests. He is co-founder of the Young ISHAM, treasurer of the Netherlands Society for Medical Mycology, and member of the Editorial Board of Clinical Microbiology Reviews, Mycopathologia, Medical Mycology and Revista Iberoamericana de Micología.
    Contact Ferry Hagen

    Westerdijk Fungal Biodiversity Institute
    Department of Medical Mycology
    Uppsalalaan 8
    3584CT Utrecht
    The Netherlands

    Website: https://www.wi.knaw.nl/ and https://www.medicalmycology.nl/
    Tel: +31 (0)30 2122 600

  • Vice President - Young ISHAM

    Amanda Ribeiro dos Santos Ph.D.
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    Amanda Ribeiro dos Santos

    Amanda Ribeiro dos Santos is a post-doctoral researcher at the School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of São Paulo (USP), Brazil. She obtained her Bachelor’s degree in Biological Sciences at the University of São Paulo State (UNESP Bauru), Brazil; has obtained her Master’s degree in Tropical Diseases at the School of Medicine of Botucatu UNESP, Brazil, and her Ph.D. in Infectious and Parasitic Diseases at the School of Medicine of Mato Grosso do Sul Federal University (UFMS), Brazil. Since her Bachelor’s time she has been involved in medical mycology research, primarily acting in the following topics: host-parasite relationship of invasive dermatophytosis and mucormycosis using experimental models; crude extracts and drugs in vitro testing on macrophages; and molecular mechanisms of paracoccidioidomycosis fibrogenesis using tissue and serum proteomics. After completing her Ph.D. she received an ORISE research training at the Mycosis Diseases Branch at the National Center for Zoonotic and Emerging Infectious Diseases at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA, U.S.A. During this time she worked on the genomic epidemiology of fungal pathogens including Candida species, azole-resistant Aspergillus fumigatus and Sporothrix species. In her current position at the University of São Paulo she will investigate the immune response of patients with sporotrichosis, as well as in collaboration with projects for sporotrichosis vaccine development, and a multicenter international study to improve the understanding of the transmission, antifungal treatment and resistance, and quality-of-life of patients with sporotrichosis in Latin America.
    Contact Amanda Ribeiro dos Santos

    Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo (FMUSP)
    Av. Dr. Arnaldo
    455 – Cerqueira César
    Pacaembu – SP
    01246-903, Brazilië

    Website: https://www.fm.usp.br/fmusp/portal/
    Tel: +55 14 99113 5260

  • Vice President

    Amir Seyedmousavi VMD, Ph.D., D(ABMM), FECMM
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    Amir Seyedmousavi

    Dr. Amir Seyedmousavi is a board-certified Clinical Microbiologist and a Diplomate of the American Board of Medical Microbiology (ABMM). He serves as a Senior Staff Microbiologist and Faculty Member of the CPEP Microbiology Fellowship Program in the Department of Laboratory Medicine at the NIH Clinical Center (CC) in Bethesda, MD, USA. In this role, he functions as a Consultant Clinical Microbiologist for Infectious Disease Diagnostic Testing and the Hospital Epidemiology Service. He also serves as the Medical Director of the Mycology and Parasitology Diagnostic Laboratories.

    Dr. Seyedmousavi’s research laboratory focuses on comparative genomic analysis, epidemiology, and the evolution of antifungal drug resistance in clinical fungi of human and animal origin. His work aims to optimize antifungal therapies through pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic approaches, develop novel diagnostic technologies, and create point-of-care tests for fungal infections. He has authored over 200 research articles and book chapters and has delivered more than 100 invited lectures around the world. Additionally, he is a member of the NIH Clinical Center’s Animal Care and Use Committee, which oversees animal use in the Center’s research program.

    Dr. Seyedmousavi serves as an editor for Medical Mycology and Medical Mycology Case Reports, the official journals of the International Society for Human and Animal Mycology (ISHAM). He is also an associate editor for IMA Fungus and sits on the editorial boards of several other peer-reviewed journals. Additionally, he serves as a voting member of the Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute (CLSI) Antifungal Subcommittee and as a liaison for the CLSI Outreach Working Group.

    Dr. Seyedmousavi is also a dedicated contributor to postgraduate education and research. He has mentored numerous predoctoral and postdoctoral researchers and, since 2009, has organized a wide range of postgraduate workshops across various countries, focusing on the diagnosis and treatment of fungal infections in humans and animals. He is the co-founder and a board member of both the ISHAM Fungal Diagnostics Working Group and the ISHAM Veterinary Mycology and One Health Working Group.
    Contact Amir Seyedmousavi

    Director of Mycology and Parasitology Sections & Senior Staff Clincial Microbiologist
    Department of Laboratory Medicine at the NIH Clinical Center (CC) in Bethesda, MD, USA

    Website: https://www.cc.nih.gov/meet-our-doctors/aseyedmousavi
    Tel: +1 301-827-7314 & +1 301-827 2775

  • Vice President

    Rita Oladele MD, Ph.D., FECMM
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    Rita Oladele

    Rita Oladele is a Professor of Medical Microbiology at the College of Medicine, University of Lagos, Nigeria. She is also the Head of the designated Mycology reference laboratory for Nigeria. She obtained her fellowship on Medical Microbiology from the National Postgraduate medical College of Nigeria in 2009. Prof Rita Oladele has over 15 years’ experience as a clinical microbiologist involved daily with the diagnosis and management of infectious diseases in the hospital. She obtained her PhD from the University of Manchester. She is the Chair of the Pan Africa Mycology Working Group and past President of Medical Mycology Society of Nigeria.

    Prof. Rita Oladele is a Fellow of the Nigeria Academy of Medical Sciences and of the European Confederation of Medical Mycology. Her teaching, clinical service responsibilities and research focus on the diagnosis of fungal infections in severely immunocompromised patients, with special interests in the epidemiology, diagnosis, prevention, and therapy of fungal infections. She is a member of the of the Advanced HIV Disease -Technical Working Group that conducted a phased implementation of AHD package of care in Nigeria, starting with 28 high burden sites, which has now been scaled up to 2000 sites in Nigeria. Prof Rita Oladele has led the training of over 1200 health care workers on management of serious fungal infections both in Nigeria and on the African continent. She is a member of the WHO advisory group on priority fungal pathogens.

    Prof. Rita Oladele also serves as an editor for Medical Mycology, an official journal of the International Society for Human and Animal Mycology (ISHAM) and an associate editor for Spectrum, an official journal for American Society of Microbiology.
    Contact Rita Oladele

    Department of Medical Microbiology & Parasitology
    College of Medicine University of Lagos
    Lagos, Nigeria

    Tel: +2348171570142

  • Vice President

    Shivaprakash M. Rudramurthy MD, Ph.D., FAMS, FECMM
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    Shivaprakash M. Rudramurthy

    Professor Rudramurthy is in-charge of the Medical Mycology Division of Department of Medical Microbiology at the Postgraduate Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India. He completed his MD in Medical Microbiology from Mysore University, India and his Ph.D. at the Radboud University, Nijmegen, Netherlands. He is a fellow of the National Academy of Medical Science (India) and a Fellow of the European Confederation of Medical Mycology (ECMM). He is the Director of the WHO Collaborating Centre for Reference and Research on Fungi of Medical Importance. He is a member of the National Academy of Science (India) and a core member of the Fungal Infection Study Forum. He oversees the ECMM Excellence centre (Diamond status), ICMR Collaborating Centre of Excellence, Centre of Advanced in Medical Mycology, and is the Curator of the National Culture Collection of Pathogenic Fungi.
    During his microbiology career spanning nearly 3 decades, he has been associated with clinical research in medical mycology. His research interests are molecular epidemiology, typing, taxonomy of human pathogenic fungi, molecular diagnosis of fungal infections, and antifungal resistance. He has reported many rare fungi as agents of mycosis and identified new species of fungi pathogenic to humans, such as Malassezia arunalokei, Exophiala arunalokei and Cunninghamella arunalokei. One of the many interesting outcomes of his research has been identifying novel drug resistance mechanisms in Aspergillus flavus and Trichophyton indotineae. His team has been at the forefront of many fungal outbreak investigations in India. His research interests are borne out by a publication track record of >320 peer-reviewed research papers.
    He served as ISHAM Vice President from 2018 to 2022 and was President of the Indian Society of Medical Mycologists from 2018 to 2020. Recipient of the Indian Association of Medical Microbiologists (IAMM) Endowment Award -2022. He is Associate Editor of ‘Journal of Medical Mycology’, ‘Journal of Medical Mycology Case Reports’ and ‘Frontiers in Fungal Biology’. He is also an Editorial Board member of the ‘Indian Journal of Medical Microbiology’.
    Contact Shivaprakash M. Rudramurthy

    WHO Collaborating Centre for Reference and Research on Fungi of Medical Importance
    Department of Medical Microbiology
    Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research
    Chandigarh, India – 160012

    Tel: +91 9316175146; +91 7087008162

  • Vice President

    Li-Ping Zhu MD, Ph.D.
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    Li-Ping Zhu

    Li-Ping Zhu is professor of the Department of Infectious Diseases, Huashan Hospital, Fudan University, China. He is also the vice chief of China National Medical Center for Infectious Diseases and is presently nominated as the vice chief of the Mycology Committee of Chinese Society for Microbiology and Deputy Editor of Mycoses and the Chinese Journal of Mycology, served as General Secretary of Medical Mycology Society of Chinese Medicine Education Association. His fields of expertise include the diagnosis and treatment of central nervous system infections, fever of unknown origin, viral hepatitis, parasitosis and systemic fungal infections. His research interests focus on antifungal agents and the immunopathogenesis of invasive fungal diseases.

    Professor Zhu received his PhD degree from Fudan University in 1997. Since then, he has been working at the Department of Infectious Diseases of the Huashan Hospital. He was a visiting scholar at the University of Würzburg, Germany, in 2001, and at the Medical Research Center of Standford University, California, U.S.A., in 2007.
    Contact Li-Ping Zhu

    12 Wulumuqi Rd (M)
    Jing’An, Shanghai
    China, 200031

    Tel: +86 21 5288 9999

  • Editor in Chief – Medical Mycology

    Sharon Chen MD, Ph.D., FECMM
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    Sharon Chen

    Sharon Chen is the Director of the Centre of Infectious Diseases and Microbiology Laboratory Services at the Institute of Clinical Pathology and Medical Research, Sydney. Clinically she serves as Infectious Diseases Consultant at Westmead Hospital, Australia and heads the Clinical Mycology service.
    She is certified in Infectious Diseases, Microbiology and including in the area of pathogen genomics. Her research interests include the epidemiology, novel methods in diagnosis and management of a broad range invasive fungal disease,  antimicrobial resistance and in new antifungal drug development.

    Sharon Chen is a founding member and past co-chair of the Australia and New Zealand Mycoses Interest Group which is dedicated to education and translational research in mycology. She is currently on the Board of Directors of the US Mycoses Study Group Education and Research Consortium (MSGERC),  and has actively participated in the Global  ECMM-led guidelines on invasive fungal infections. She has published over 250 peer-reviewed articles, book chapters and is reviewer for numerous scientific journal. She is an Editorial board member for Journal  of Clinical Microbiology, and Associate Editor for the journal Pathology.

    She was appointed Editor in Chief of Medical Mycology in 2021.
    Contact Sharon Chen

    Sharon Chen  PhD, MBBS
    Director
    Centre for Infectious Diseases and Microbiology Laboratory Services
    ICPMR | NSW Health Pathology
    Level 3 ICPMR Building, Westmead Hospital
    Darcy Road, Westmead, NSW 2145, Australia

    Website: https://wimr.org.au/research-centres/centre-for-infectious-diseases-and-microbiology/

  • Editor in Chief - Medical Mycology Case Reports

    Arunaloke Chakrabarti MD, Dip NB, FAMS, FNASc, FIDSA, FECMM
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    Arunaloke Chakrabarti

    He is the Past-Presidents of the International Society for Human and Animal Mycology (ISHAM), Indian Society of Medical Mycologists (ISMM), and Indian Association of Medical Microbiologists (IAMM). At present, he is working as the Director of Doodhadhari Burfani Hospital and Research Institute, Haridwar, India. He worked at Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India for nearly 40 years. While working in medical mycology at that institute, he developed his center as the ‘National Advanced Centre in Medical Mycology’, ‘WHO Collaborating Center for Reference and Research on Fungi of Medical Importance’, ‘National Culture Collection of Pathogenic Fungi’. He worked as mentor for development of several mycology laboratories in Southeast Asian region. He is also the coordinator of ‘Antifungal resistance surveillance network’ under WHO, member of ‘WHO Antifungal Expert Group on Identifying R&D Priorities’ and ‘WHO Strategic and Technical Advisory Group for Antimicrobial Resistance (STAG-AMR)’, the Chair of Fungal Infection Study Forum, India. His major contribution is in the field of epidemiology, management, and control of fungal sinusitis, mucormycosis, and hospital acquired fungal infections. He received multiple awards from National Societies, Academies of India, and was awarded the Fellow of National Academy of Medical Sciences (FAMS), Fellow of The National Academy of Sciences, India (FNASc), Fellow of European Confederation of Medical Mycology (FECMM), and Fellow Infectious Disease Society of America (FIDSA).
    Contact Arunaloke Chakrabarti

    Director, Doodhdhari Burfani Hospital & Research Institute
    Bhupatwala, Haridwar 249410
    Uttarakhand, India
    Phone: +91 9914208244
    Email: arunaloke@hotmail.com
    arunaloke@gmail.com

    Tel: +91 9914208244
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