The legislative body of the International Society of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy (ISAC) is the Council, which is made up of representatives from the Member Societies as well as the society’s Executive Committee. The administration of ISAC is conducted by the Executive Committee, which is elected by the Council. The Executive Officers of the Society are chosen and elected by the Executive Committee and approved by the Council.
Find out more about ISAC's Executive Committee members here.
Executive Committee members may be contacted via Fee Johnstone, ISAC Secretariat (secretariat [at] ISAC.world)
Souha Kanj
President, Trustee (2024 - 2026)
Faculty of Medicine, American University of Beirut, Lebanon
Heiman Wertheim
President Elect, Trustee (2024 - 2026)
Clinical Microbiology Department, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, the Netherlands
Anuradha Chowdhary
Secretary General, Trustee (2024 – 2028)
Department of Medical Mycology, Vallabhbhai Patel Chest Institute, University of Delhi, Delhi, India
David Jenkins
Treasurer, Trustee (2024 - 2028)
Medical Microbiology & Virology, University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust, Leicester, UK
Geoff Coombs
Immediate Past President, Trustee (2024 - 2026)
School of Medical, Molecular and Forensic Sciences, Murdoch University, Perth, Australia
Regina Berba
Executive Committee, Ordinary Member (2022 - 2026)
Hospital Infection Control Unit, University of the Philippines - Philippines General Hospital, Quezon City, Philippines
Michael David
Executive Committee, Ordinary Member (2024 – 2028)
Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, and Dept. of Biostatistics, Epidemiology, and Informatics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Marco Falcone
Executive Committee, Ordinary Member (2024 - 2028)
Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy
Patricia Munoz
Executive Committee, Ordinary Member (2022 - 2026)
Servicio de Microbiología Clínica – Enfermedades Infecciosas, Hospital General, Madrid, Spain
Katsunori Yanagihara
Executive Committee, Ordinary Member (2024 - 2028)
Department of Laboratory Medicine, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Japan
Sabiha Essack (2024 - 2026)
Ex Officio Member
School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN), KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
José Munita (2024 - 2026)
Ex Officio Member
Instituto de Ciencias e Innovación en Medicina (ICIM), Facultad de Medicina Clinica Alemana, Universidad del Desarrollo, Santiago, Chile
Jian Li
Ex officio member: IJAA Editor-in-Chief
Biomedicine Discovery Institute, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
Athanasios Tsakris
Ex officio member: JGAR Editor-in-Chief
Department of Microbiology at the Medical School, University of Athens, Greece
Jinxin Zhao (2020 - 2024)
Ex Officio Member
Laboratory of Antimicrobial Systems Pharmacology, Biomedicine Discovery Institute, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
David Lye
Asia Pacific Society of Clinical Microbiology & Infection representative
National Centre for Infectious Diseases; Tan Tock Seng Hospital; Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, Singapore
Fiona MacKenzie
Ex officio member: ISAC Chief Executive Officer
Medical Microbiology, Aberdeen Royal Infirmary, Scotland, UK
Fee Johnstone
ISAC Executive Officer
Aberdeen, Scotland, UK
