Associate Professor of Medicine
Director, Transplant Infectious Diseases
Emory University School of Medicine
Atlanta, Georgia, USA

Stephanie Pouch, MD, MS, FAST, FIDSA is an Associate Professor of Medicine and transplant infectious diseases physician at Emory University School of Medicine. Her clinical and research interests include donor evaluation and donor-derived infections, as well as multidrug-resistant bacterial infections. She is active within the transplant community, serving as a Councilor in the TID Section of TTS, Co-Chair of the American Society of Transplantation Infectious Disease Community of Practice’s Donor Evaluation Working Group, and Chair of the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network Disease Transmission Advisory Committee.

Global Health Fellow
Mater Misericordiae University Hospital
Dublin, Ireland

Siti Mardhiah Muhamad Fauzi, MBBChBAO, MRCPI is an Infectious Diseases trainee in Ireland. She is currently working as a Global Health Fellow in Mater Hospital in Dublin. She is a member of the national High Consequence Infectious Diseases Clinical Advisory Group. She is collaborating with Public Health in developing an imported fever surveillance network from first point of clinical contact. She is interested in translating knowledge and evidence into improvement in clinical service, especially for groups socioeconomically challenged. When she is free, she loves to spend time outside being lost in nature, and enjoying good food with loved ones.

Associate Professor
University of the Philippines Manila, Philippine General Hospital
Manila, Philippines

Dr. Cybéle Lara R. Abad graduated from the University of the Philippines College of Medicine. She then pursued subspecialty training in Infectious Diseases at the University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics, Wisconsin, and completed a Transplant infectious diseases Fellowship in Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN.

Dr. Abad is currently an Associate Professor of Medicine in Infectious Diseases at the University of the Philippines Manila, Philippine General Hospital in Manila and is a research collaborator at Mayo Clinic. She is also a full time consultant of the Section of Infectious Diseases at The Medical City, Philippines where she was Chair of Infection Control from 2017-2023.

Dr. Abad has ongoing research on invasive fungal infection and solid organ transplantation, nosocomial infections and HIV. She is a fellow of the Philippine College of Physicians (PCP) and the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA).

Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine
Transplant and lmmunocompromised Host Service
Department of Medicine/Division of Infectious Diseases
University of Miami School of Medicine
Jackson Memorial Hospital/Miami Transplant Institute
Miami, United States of America

Dr. Simkins completed his internal medicine residence at the University of Miami/Jackson Memorial Hospital and his infectious diseases fellowship at Albert Einstein College of Medicine/Montefiore Medical Center. He is currently an Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine at the University of Miami School of Medicine. He has been working as transplant infectious diseases clinician, researcher and educator at the Miami Transplant Institute/University of Miami for over 10 years. He has published numerous peer-review publications and given countless lectures, and is currently the principal investigator (Miami site) for the HOPE in Action: Prospective Multicenter Study of Liver Transplantation from HIV+ Donors to HIV+ Recipients.