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AcicN is a member-based network supervised by the Corporate Advisory Board (CAB), this board is composed of experts and advisors who are knowledgeable, prominent, and credible members in the field of infection prevention and control or a profession that relates to infection prevention.

Hanan Balkhy, MD, FAAP

Executive Director, Infection Prevention and Control and WHO Collaborating Centre at the Ministry of National Guard.

Editor-in-Chief:Journal of Infection and Public Health

Director of the GCC Centre for Infection Control.

Chairman of Infectious Disease unit at King Abdullah International Medical Research Centre

Associate Professor of King Saud bin Abdualziz University for Health Science

Didier Pittet, MD, MS, CBE

Director of the Infection Control Programme and WHO Collaborating Centre on Patient Safety, University Hospital of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland.

Professor of Medicine, Faculty of Medecine, University of Geneva, Switzerland.

Lead of the World Health Organization (WHO) Global Patient Safety Challenge "Clean Care is Safer Care

Souha Kanj, MD, FACP, FIDSA.

Professor of Medicine Head, Division of Infectious Diseases.

Chairperson, Infection Control Program American University of Beirut Medical Center

Consulting Professor Duke University Medical Center- Durham, NC

Ossama Rasslan, MD,Ph.D

Professor of Med Microbiology & Infection Control, Ain Shams University (ASU), Egypt
Dean, Arab Institute for Continuing Professional Development (AICPD) 
President, Egyptian Society for Infection Control ( APIC/EGYPT chapter )
Director, Eastern Mediterranean Regional Network for Infection Control (EMRNIC)
Chair, North Africa Region; Infection Control African Network (ICAN)
Head, Infectious Diseases Research & Infection Control Unit, ASU, Egypt

Sanjay Saint, MD, MPH

Chief of Medicine, VA Ann Arbor Healthcare System

George Dock Professor,  Department of Internal Medicine

Senior Associate Chair, Department of Internal Medicine

Councilor, AOA Chapter, University of Michigan

Najwa Khuri-Bulos, MD

Dean of Academic Research, Jordan University

Professor and Division Department of Pediatrics and Division of Infectious Diseases Jordan University Hospital Amman, Jordan

Adjunct Professor, Pediatric Infectious Disease, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA

Hail M. Al-Abdely, MD

General Director of the General Directorate of Infection Prevention and Control, MoH, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Consultant Infectious Diseases, King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center, Riyadh, KSA

Professor of Medicine, Alfaisal University, Riyadh, KSA

Jacques E Mokhbat, MD

Professor of Medicine and Associate Dean for the Graduate Medical Education at the Lebanese American University- LAU.

Senior ID consultant and Chief Clinical Microbiology- Rizk hospital

Najiba M Abdulrazzaq, FRCP, MRCP, MB. Bch. BAO

Consultant Internist

Head of Medical Department

Al Baraha Hospital

Head of Infection Prevention and Control Central Committee- Ministry of Health & Prevention- Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Seif Salem Al Abri, MD DTM&H MSc, PGC

Senior Consultant Infectious Diseases, Royal Hospital.

Director General of Disease Surveillance and Control, MoH Oman.

Andreas Voss, MD

Professor of Infection Control, Clinical Microbiologist

Editor-in-Chief- Antimicrobial Resistance & Infection Control Bestuurslid- Dutch Society for Medical Microbiology Co-organizer and co-founder- International Consortium for Prevention & Infection Control (ICPIC)

Wadha A Alfouzan, MD, MBBS, MSc, FR.

Consultant Clinical Microbiologist

Head of Laboratory Medicine- Farwania Hospital, Ministry of Health, Kuwait

Member of Kuwait Clinical Microbiology Board-KIMS, Kuwait

Assistant Professor of Clinical Microbiology Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, Kuwait University

Samer Ellahham,MD,CPHQ,CFQ,EFQM,FACC

Chief Quality Officer

Senior Cardiovascular Consultant Sheikh Khalifa Medical City Abu Dhabi, UAE

Major Dr. Suaad Al Jaberi

ID Specialist, Epidemiologist, Microbiologist,

Head of Infection Prevention & Control Section - Abu Dhabi Police- UAE

Adnan Alatoom, MD, PhD, ABMM, FCAP

Consultant physician | Head, Clinical Microbiology Section

Pathology & Laboratory Medicine Institute|Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi

Lyssette Cardona MD. FACP, FIDSA

ID consultant

Chief, Occupational Health Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi

Manaf M Alqahtani, MD, MB-BchBAO,MMM, FACP, FRCPC

Associate Professor of Medicine- RCSI- MUB

Vice President , Bahrain Medical Society

Consultant, ID&IM- Medical department

Clinical Microbiologist and Head of Microbiology Pathology and Laboratory Medicine Department BDF Hospital- Royal Medical services

Maha Talaat, MD, MPHT

Head, Infection Control Unit

Deputy Director for Disease Prevention, Global Disease Detection, US Naval Medical Research Unit. Cairo, Egypt.

Ahmad Nusair, MD, FACP, FIDSA

Consultant, Infectious Diseases

Chair, Infection Control Committee Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi.

Abeer Moh’d Ali Khallaf, BSN, MSN, CIC.

Manager Infection Control Program - Sheikh Khalifa Medical City

President of APIC chapter UAE

Chair of Special interest group SEHA Infection preventionists UAE

Shafi Mohammed, RN, MPH

Director, Infection Control 

Quality and Patient Safety Institute

Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi

Aiman El-Saed Ramadan, MD, PhD, MPH, MSc, MACE

Advisor, Health Surveillance, Infection Prevention & Control Department, KAMC, Riyadh

Asst Professor of Epidemiology & Biostatistics, CPHHI, KSAU-HS

Rabee S.A Adwan MD

Infectious Diseases Specialist

Head of ID Unit and ICC at Al Makassed Charitable Islamic Hospital.

Head of ICC Alistishari Hospital. Technical Advisor with USAID-ASSIST Project In Palestine

Aziz A. Chentoufi, PhD. D(ABMLI)

Professor Immunology Clinical Immunology/HLA Laboratory ; National Reference Laboratory

Special Adviser to the President Mohamed VI University of Health Sciences Casablanca. Morocco.

Maria Virginia Villegas MD,ID,M.Sc.

Scientific leader of the Bacterial Resistance and Hospital Epidemiology area of research at CIDEIM- Colombia

Subashnie Devkaran, PhD, FACHE

President Elect, American College of Healthcare Executives, MENA.

Consultant, JCI.

Senior Manager – Accreditation, Quality and Patient Safety Institute, Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi, UAE

Ahmed Hakawi , MD ,CIC,FAP

Deputy-General Director, General Directorate of Infection Prevention and Control, MoH, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Amin Salim Ratna MD, DCH, MPH

Head of Infection Control and CSSD Sultan Qaboos Hospital, Oman

Nazek AL-Gallas PhD

Assistant Professor and a Researcher (Genotyping and Emergence of Antibiotic Resistance) Water and Food Control Laboratory National Center of Salmonella, Shigella, Vibrio, E.coli-Enteropathogens Institut Pasteur de Tunis (IPT)

Claire Kilpatrick, PG Dip Infection

Director S3 Global (KS Healthcare Consulting)

WHO Consultant Manager & Technical Officer

Honorary Research Officer, Imperial College London

Mohammad AL Dhaher BSc. EPt CLA Environmental Health

Environmental Health and Safety Expert

President, Green Health Canada Inc.

Laura Vallenius M.S. Health Sciences M.S.Occupational Safety and Health Grad IOSH-

Expert Occupational Safety and Health

Portfolio HSE Manager, UAE

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