Infections in surgery are an important cause of morbidity and are frequently associated with poor prognosis, particularly in high-risk patients.
Given the complexity of the treatment of infections in surgical patients a multi-disciplinary approach should be crucial, although it is not always possible in real-life clinical practice.
The Global Alliance for Infections in Surgery is an independent alliance promoted in 2016 by the World Society of Emergency Surgery (WSES), for a cohesive and global approach to promoting research and education in the field of infections in surgery.
The Global Alliance for Infections in Surgery aims to include all professionals involved in this battle, including epidemiologists and infection control specialists, infectious diseases specialists, hospital pharmacists, pharmacologists, microbiologists, intensivists, surgeons and nurses.
The mission of Infections in Surgery is to educate health care providers promoting the standards of care in managing surgical infections worldwide.
Our values are scientific rigour and ethical accountability.
Executive Board
- Massimo Sartelli (Italy)
(Acting Director) - Luca Ansaloni (Italy)
- Adrian J. Brink (South Africa)
- Jean Carlet (France)
- Fausto Catena (Italy)
- Alain Chichom-Mefire (Cameroon)
- Federico Coccolini (Italy)
- Salomone Di Saverio (Italy)
- Francesco M. Labricciosa (Italy)
- Addison K. May (USA)
- Leonardo Pagani (Italy)
- Pierluigi Viale (Italy)
- Richard R. Watkins (USA)
International Advisory Board
- Lilian Abbo (USA)
- Salisu Abubakar (Nigeria)
- Fikri M Abu-Zidan (United Arab Emirates)
- Abdulrashid Adesunkanmi (Nigeria)
- Ervis Agastra (Albania)
- Majdi N. Al-Hasan (USA)
- AbdelKarim H Al Omari (Jordan)
- Musaed Alsamawi (Qatar)
- Asma A Althani (Qatar)
- André Ricardo Araujo da Silva (Brazil)
- Goran Augustin (Croatia)
- Carlos Alves (Portugal)
- Miklosh Bala (Israel)
- Philip S Barie (USA)
- Matteo Bassetti (Italy)
- Aneel Bhangu (UK)
- Pamela Barbadoro (Italy)
- Oussema Baraket (Tunisia)
- Marcelo A Beltrán (Chile)
- Roberto Biffi (Italy)
- Michael Borg (Malta)
- Stephen M Brecher (USA)
- Ana Budimir (Croatia)
- Juan Gabriel Bueno (Colombia)
- Miguel Caínzos (Spain)
- Adrián Camacho-Ortiz (Mexico)
- Raif Cavolli (Republic of Kosovo)
- Sujith J Chandy (USA)
- Osvaldo Chiara (Italy)
- Elif M Çolak (Turkey)
- Charles H Cook (USA)
- Antonio Corcione (Italy)
- Oliver Cornely (Germany)
- Francesco Cortese (Italy)
- Yunfeng Cui (China)
- Daniel Curcio (Argentina)
- Alberto Deales (Italy)
- E. Patchen Dellinger (USA)
- Zaza Demetrashvili (Georgia)
- Samir Delibegovic (Bosnia Herzegovina)
- Belinda De Simone (France)
- Hamilton Petry de Souza (Brazil)
- Matthew Dryden (UK)
- Jan J De Waele (Belgium)
- Sameer Dhingra (Trinidad and Tobago)
- Francesco Di Marzo (Italy)
- Agron Dogjani (Albania)
- Gereltuya Dorj (Mongolia)
- Laurent Dortet (France)
- Soumitra R Eachempati (USA)
- Christian Eckmann (Germany)
- Valery Egiev (Russian Federation)
- Mushira Enani (Saudi Arabia)
- Mario Faro (Brazil)
- Paula Ferrada (USA)
- Alberto Ferreres (Argentina)
- Esteban Foianini (Bolivia)
- Gustavo Fraga (Brazil)
- Donald Fry (USA)
- Isack Gakuru (Rwanda)
- José Garnacho-Montero (Spain)
- Wagih Ghnnam (Egypt)
- Massimo Girardis (Italy)
- George Gkiokas (Greece)
- Carlos Augusto Gomes (Brazil)
- Harumi Gomi (Japan)
- Ewen A Griffiths (UK)
- Nathalie Guessennd (Ivory Coast)
- Rosio Isabel Guerra Gronerth (Perù)
- Manuel Guzmán Blanco (Venezuela)
- Mainul Haque (Malaysia)
- Timothy C Hardcastle (South Africa)
- Andreas Hecker (Germany)
- Markus Hell (Austria)
- Adrien Montcho Hodonou (Benin)
- Hossein Samadi Kafil (Iran)
- Souha S Kanj (Lebanon)
- Garima Kapoor (India)
- Aleksandar Karamarkovic (Serbia)
- Jakub Kenig (Poland)
- Ronald Kiguba (Uganda)
- Faryal Khamis (Oman)
- Ashish Khanna (USA)
- Vladimir Khokha (Belarus)
- Kateryna Kon (Ukraine)
- Paulo Henrique Klein (Brazil)
- Andrew W Kirkpatrick (Canada)
- Wen-Chien Ko (Taiwan)
- Vladimir C Krcmery (Slovakia)
- Yuan Kuo-Ching (Taiwan)
- Iryna Kozlovska (Ukraine)
- Margareth IP (Hong Kong)
- Arda Isik (Turkey)
- Katia Iskandar (Lebanon)
- Kamal Itani (USA)
- Maurizio Labbate (Australia)
- Suk-Hwan Lee (South Korea)
- Matthieu Legrand (France)
- Leonel Lagunes (Mexico)
- Ramanan Laxminarayan (India)
- Rifat Latifi (USA)
- Jae Gil Lee (South Korea)
- Young Ran Lee (USA)
- Ari Leppaniemi (Finland)
- Yousheng Li (China)
- Stephen Liang (USA)
- Tonny Loho (Indonesia)
- Warren Lowman (South Africa)
- Gustavo Machain (Paraguay)
- Marc Maegele (Germany)
- Fawzi Mahomoodally (Mauritius)
- Sydney Malama (Zambia)
- Emmanuel Makasa (Zambia)
- Mutasim Mangory (Sudan)
- Hany E Marei (Qatar)
- Cristina Marmorale (Italy)
- John Marshall (Canada)
- Ignacio Martin-Loeches (Ireland)
- Sanjay Marwah (India)
- Amos Massele (Botswana)
- Luis Martinez-Martinez (Spain)
- Ingo Marzi (Germany)
- Maria Rita Mazzoccanti (Italy)
- Michael McFarlane (Jamaica)
- Rita Maria Melotti (Italy)
- Ziad A Memish (Saudi Arabia)
- Dominik Mertz (Canada)
- Shyam Kumar Mishra (Nepal)
- Frederick A Moore (USA)
- Johan W Mouton (The Netherlands)
- Eleftherios Mylonakis (USA)
- Akutu A. Munyika (Namibia)
- Lena M. Napolitano (USA)
- Ionut Negoi (Romania)
- David P Nicolau (USA)
- Carl Erik Nord (Sweden)
- Donal B O’Connor (Ireland)
- Abdoul-Salam Ouédraogo (Burkina Faso)
- Carlos Ordoñez (Colombia)
- Leonardo Pagani (Italy)
- José Artur Paiva (Portugal)
- Narayan Dutt Pant (Nepal)
- José Gustavo Parreira (Brazil)
- Ardalan Pasdaran (Iran)
- Bruno M Pereira (Brazil)
- Nuno Pereira (Portugal)
- Nicola Petrosillo (Italy)
- Alfredo Ponce de Leon (Mexico)
- Garyphallia Poulakou (Greece)
- Jacobus Preller (UK)
- Adrián Puello Guerrero (Dominican Republic)
- Celine Pulcini (France)
- Guntars Pupelis(Latvia)
- Martha Quiodettis (Panama)
- Mahendra Rai (India)
- Timothy Rawson (UK)
- Tarcisio Reis (Brazil)
- Jordi Rello (Spain)
- Miran Rems (Slovenia)
- Walter Ricciardi (Italy)
- Sandro Rizoli (Canada)
- Jason A Roberts (Australia)
- Claudio Rocha (Perù)
- Jesús Rodríguez Baño (Spain)
- Gabriel Sunil Rodrigues (India)
- Michael Sander (Germany)
- Boris E Sakakushev (Bulgaria)
- Robert G. Sawyer (USA)
- Rodolfo Scibé (Italy)
- Loredana Scoccia (Italy)
- Helmut Segovia Lohse (Paraguay)
- Gabriele Sganga (Italy)
- Nusrat Shafiq (India)
- Noman Shahzad (Pakistan)
- Vishal G Shelat (Singapore)
- Costi D Sifri (USA)
- Boonying Siribumrungwong (Thailand)
- Kjetil Søreide (Norway)
- Norio Sato (Japan)
- Rodolfo Soto (Colombia)
- Sara Soto (Spain)
- Patrizia Spigaglia (Italy)
- Shanoo Suroowan (Mautitius)
- Peep Talving (Estonia)
- Jeffrey Tessier (USA)
- Jonathan Tilsed (UK)
- Cristian Tranà (Italy)
- Ngo Tat Trung (Vietnam)
- Jan Ulrych (Czech Republic)
- Garance Fannie Upham (France)
- Selman Uranues (Austria)
- Florian Wagenlehner (Germany)
- Agnes Wechsler-Fördös (Austria)
- Harry van Goor (The Netherlands)
- Andras Vereczkei (Hungary)
- Jordi Vila (Spain)
- Claudio Viscoli (Italy)
- Yonghong Xiao (China)
- Ali Yahya (Libya)
- Jean-Ralph Zahar (France)
- Tanya L. Zakrison (USA)
- Brian Zuckerbraun (USA)
Why the Global alliance for Infections in Surgery
(Massimo Sartelli – acting director – Global Alliance for Infection in Surgery)
Global Alliance for Infections in Surgery 