Symposium Chairman
Ron Dagan, Israel
ISPPD Board
Helle Bossen Konradsen, Denmark
Jay Butler, USA
Allan Cripps, Australia
Ron Dagan, Israel
Hermina de Lencastre, Portugal
Ingileif Jónsdóttir, Iceland
Keith Klugman, South Africa / USA
Rosanna Lagos, Chile
Amanda J. Leach, Australia
Shabir Madhi, South Africa
P. Helena Mäkelä, Finland
Hanna Nohynek, Finland
Mathuram Santosham, USA
Alexander Tomasz, USA
Local Organizing Committee
Ron Dagan, Chair
Emilia Anis
Shai Ashkenazi
Dani Cohen
Moshe Efrat
David Greenberg
Itamar Grotto
Nathan Keller
Yaffa Mizrachi-Nebenzahl
Bracha Rager
Gili Regev-Yochay
Shmuel Rishpon
Itamar Shalit
Eli Somekh
Scientific Committee
Session 1: Pneumococcal Evolution
Put Together By: Birgitta Henriques-Normark (Chair), Alexander Tomasz, Ger Rijkers, Mario Ramirez, Angela Brueggemann
Session 2: Man and Pneumococcus - Les Liaisons Dangereuses
Put Together By: Jeff Weiser (Chair), David Briles, Peter Andrew, Marc Lipsitch, Elaine Tuomanen, Peter Hermans
Session 3: Interaction of S. pneumoniae with Other Agents - The Influenza Virus Paradigm
Put Together By: Keith Klugman (Chair), Jonathan McCullers, Gili Regev-Yochay, Amanda Leach, Stuart Clarke, Eric Simoes
Session 4: Constituents of Immune Protection
Put Together By: Adam Finn (Chair), David Goldblatt, Tim Mitchell, Moon Nahm, Irun Cohen
Session 5: Pneumonia and Other Respiratory Pneumococcal Infections
Put Together By: Shabir Madhi (Chair), Brian Greenwood, Rosanna Lagos, Matthew Moore, Allan Cripps, David Greenberg
Session 6: Treatment Controversies
Put Together By: Donald Low (Chair), Michael Jacobs, Javier Garau, Steve Pelton, Adriano Arguedas
Session 7: Serotype Dynamics of Disease and Colonization Before and After Vaccine
Put Together By: Kate O'Brien (Chair), Leslie McGee, Helen Makela, Herminia de Lencastre, Samir Saha, Hanna Nohynek, Steve Black
Session 8: The Way Forward for Global Pneumococcal Vaccination
Put Together By: Orin Levine (Chair), Kim Mulholland, Thomas Cherian, Cynthia Whitney, Kari Auranen, Steve Black
Session 9: Novel Pneumococcal Vaccines and Alternative Vaccination Strategies - Promises & Challenges
Put Together By: Richard Malley (Chair), Yaffa Mizrachi-Nebenzahl, Susan Hollingshead, James Paton, Ingileif Jónsdóttir, George Siber, Claire-Anne Siegrist
Travel Grant Committee
Europe, North America, Australia
Steve Black, USA
Juhani Eskola, Finland
Javier Garau, Spain
Kim Mulholland, UK
Africa, Asia, Latin America
Rosanna Lagos, Chile
Shabir Madhi, South Africa
Anthony Scott, Kenya
Noboru Yamanaka, Japan
Robert Austrian Research Award Committee
Amanda Leach, Australia
Keith Klugman, USA
Mathuram Santosham, USA
Ron Dagan, Israel
Ingileif Jónsdóttir, Iceland
Robert Austrian Lecturer Committee
Ingileif Jónsdóttir, Iceland
Mathuram Santosham, USA
Alexander Tomasz, USA
Sputum Cup Committee
Jukka Jokinen, Finland
Bill Hanage, UK
Rick Malley, USA
Keith Klugman, USA
Kate O'Brien, USA