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Global Guidelines for the Prevention of Surgical Site Infection. Geneva: World Health Organization; 2018.

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6.1Guidelines Development Group

  • Professor Hanan H Balkhy
    WHO Collaborating Centre and GCC Center for Infection Control
    Infection Prevention and Control Department
    King Saud Bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences
    PO Box 22490
    Riyadh 11426, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
  • Professor F. Javier Belda
    University of Valencia
    Department of Anesthesia
    Valencia, Spain
  • Professor Sean Berenholtz
    Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and Quality
    Johns Hopkins Medicine
    Baltimore, MD, USA
  • Professor Marja A Boermeester
    Department of Surgery
    Amsterdam Gastroenterology and Metabolism
    Amsterdam Infection and Immunity
    Amsterdam UMC
    University of Amsterdam
    Meibergdreef 9
    1105AZ Amsterdam, the Netherlands
  • Dr Nizam Damani
    Craigavon Area Hospital
    Portadown, Craigavon, Co Armagh, UK
  • Professor E. Patchen Dellinger
    University of Washington
    Box 356410 Room BB 441
    1959 N.E. Pacific Street
    Seattle, WA 98195-6410, USA
  • Dr Mazen Ferwana
    National & Gulf Centre for Evidence Based Health Practice
    King Saud Bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences MNGHA
    Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
  • Professor Petra Gastmeier
    Institute of Hygiene and Environmental Medicine
    Charité-University Medicine Berlin
    Hindenburgdamm 27
    12203 Berlin, Germany
  • Professor Robert Greif
    Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Therapy
    Bern University Hospital
    University of Bern
    Bern, Switzerland
  • Dr Xavier Guirao
    Endocrine & Head and Neck Surgery
    Corporacifi Sanitaria del Parc Taul› de Sabadell
    University Hospital Sabadell
    Barcelona, Spain
  • Ms Regina Namata Kamoga
    Community Health and Information Network (CHAIN)
    Kampala, Uganda
  • Dr Asad Latif
    Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and Quality
    Johns Hopkins Medicine
    Baltimore, MD, USA
  • Professor Nordiah Awang Jalil
    Department of Medical Microbiology & Immunology and Head of Infection Control Unit
    Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia Medical Centre
    Jalan Yaacob Latif, Bandar Tun Razak 56000 Cheras
    Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
  • Professor Fauzia Khan
    Aga Khan University
    Karachi, Pakistan
  • Ms Robinah Kaitiritimba
    Uganda National Health Consumers’ Organisation
    Plot 744 Namuli Road, Bukoto, P.O Box 70095
    Kampala Uganda
  • Ms Claire Kilpatrick
    KS Healthcare Consulting
    London, UK
  • Dr Janet Martin
    World Federation of Societies of Anaesthesiologists (WFSA)
    Anesthesia and Perioperative Medicine
    Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry
    Western University
    London, Ontario, Canada
  • Professor Shaheen Mehtar
    Tygerberg Hospital & Stellenbosch University
    Tygerberg 7505
    Cape Town, Republic of South Africa
  • Dr Babacar Ndoye
    Infection Control Africa Network
    Dakar, Senegal
  • Dr Peter M Nthumba
    Plastic, Reconstructive and Hand Surgery Unit
    Medical Education and Research Unit
    AIC Kijabe Hospital
    Kijabe, Kenya
  • Dr Jannicke Mellin-Olsen
    London, United Kingdom
  • Professor Bisola Onajin Obembe
    Department of Anaesthesiology
    College of Health Sciences
    University of Port Harcourt
    Rivers State, Nigeria
  • Professor Akca Ozan
    Department of Anaesthesiology and Perioperative
    Medecine
    University of Louisville, USA
  • Dr Leonardo Pagani
    Infectious Diseases Unit
    Bolzano Central Hospital
    Via L. Boehler, 5
    39100 Bolzano, Italy
  • Professor Didier Pittet
    Infection Control Programme and WHO Collaborating Centre on Patient Safety University of Geneva Hospitals and Faculty of Medicine
    4 Rue Gabrielle-Perret-Gentil
    1211 Geneva 14, Switzerland
  • Professor Jianan Ren
    Research Institute of General Surgery
    Jinling Hospital
    Medical School of Nanjing University
    Nanjing, 210002, People’s Republic of China
  • Professor Joseph S Solomkin
    University of Cincinnati College of Medicine
    231 Albert B. Sabin Way
    Cincinnati OH 45267-0558, USA / CEO, OASIS Global, 6005 Given Road
    Cincinnati, OH 45243, USA
  • Ms Akeau Unahalekhaka
    Faculty of Nursing
    Chiang Mai University
    A Muang
    Chiang Mai, 50200 Thailand
  • Professor Dr Andreas Widmer
    Division of Infectious Diseases & Hospital
    Epidemiology and Infection Control
    University of Basel Hospital and Clinics
    4031 Basel, Switzerland
  • Professor Matthias Egger Methodologist
    Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine
    University of Bern
    Finkenhubelweg 11
    3012 Bern, Switzerland
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