Committees

FOCIS Committees

Volunteers are the lifeblood of our organization. Dedicated members are what drive our programs, annual meeting agendas, and the strategic direction of the Federation.

Communications Committee

The Communications Committee is responsible for creating, revising, and overseeing the annual communications plan, communication guidelines, social media channels, and online forums. They also suggest innovative methods for FOCIS to interact with its members and other individuals through different forms of media.

Todd Brusko, PhD, Chair

University of Florida

Ignacio Anegon, MD, FOCIS President

Nantes University

Jane Buckner, MD

Benaroya Research Institute

Jane Grogan, PhD

Biogen

Terri Laufer, MD

University of Pennsylvania

Leonie Taams, PhD

Kings College London

Education Committee

The Education Committee is charged with overseeing the creation of educational programs that maintain, develop and increase the knowledge, understanding, skills and professional performance of trainees and investigators in the broad field of clinical immunology, and that enable basic scientists to understand the pathogenesis of immunological disease and the principles of clinical research.

Stephanie Eisenbarth, MD, PhD,
Chair

Northwestern University

Alexis Kalergis, MD, PhD
Co-Chair

Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

Salvatore Albani, MD, PhD

Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School Singapore

Robert (Bob) Balderas, MBA

BD Biosciences

Amit Bar-Or, MD

University of Pennsylvania

Olivier Boyer, MD, PhD

Rouen University

Paul Bryce, PhD

Emanuele de Rinaldis, PhD

Sanofi

Guillermo Docena, PhD

Universidad Nacional de la Plata (UNLP)

Magnus Fontes, PhD

Genentech

Terri Laufer, MD

University of Pennsylvania

Carrie L. Lucas, PhD

Yale School of Medicine

Eva María Martínez Cáceres, PhD

Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

Esperanza Perucha, PhD

King’s College London

Asha Pillai, MD, PhD

Regeneron

Shiv Pillai, MD, PhD

Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT and Harvard

Neil D. Romberg, MD

Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia

FOCIS Centers of Excellence

The FOCIS Centers of Excellence (FCE) Committee is charged with overseeing the FOCIS Centers of Excellence, a network of leading academic medical centers that promote innovation in translational immunology research and clinical practices, provide interdisciplinary training programs, and promote new links for researchers and clinicians.

Jeff Rathmell, PhD
Chair

Vanderbilt University

Olivier Boyer, MD, PhD
FCE Multinational Chair

Rouen University

Marcelo Hill. MD, PhD

Institut Pasteur de Montevideo

Elena Hsieh, MD

University of Colorado – Anschutz Medical Campus

Khashayarsha Khazaie, PhD

Mayo Clinic

Antonio La Cava, MD, PhD

University of California, Los Angeles

Ciriaco Piccirillo, PhD

McGill University

Ricardo Pujol-Borrell, MD, PhD

Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB)
Hosp Univ Vall d’Hebron

Femke van Wijk, PhD

Utrecht University

Membership & Scientific Outreach Committee

The Membership & Scientific Outreach Committee is charged with creating an environment that promotes participation and ownership by individual members and Member Societies, and to strengthen FOCIS through collaboration and coalition-building with Member Societies and other affiliated organizations.

Barbara Detrick, PhD, Chair

John Hopkins University School of Medicine

Pradeep K. Dagur, PhD

NIH/NHLBI

Margarita Dominguez-Villar, PhD

Imperial College London

Pablo González, PhD

Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

Edward Knol, PhD

University Medical Center Utrecht

Ivan Mascanfroni, PhD

Seismic Therapeutics

Makoto Miyara, MD, PhD

Hôpital Pitié-Salpêtrière

Silvia Piconese, PhD

Sapienza Università di Roma

Bhagirath Singh, PhD

University of Western Ontario

Scientific Program Committee

The Scientific Program committee is charged with planning the scientific program of the annual meeting.

Joshua Milner, MD, Chair

Columbia University

Megan Cooper, MD, PhD, Co-Chair

Washington University in St. Louis

Jane L. Grogan, PhD, Past Chair

Biogen

Ignacio Anegon, MD, FOCIS President

Nantes University

Megan Sykes, MD, FOCIS Past-President

Columbia University

Megan Levings, PhD, FOCIS President-Elect

University of British Columbia

Kavita Dhodapkar, MD, Abstract Chair

Emory University

Pam Guerrerio, MD, PhD, Abstract Co-Chair

NIH/NIAID

Galit Alter, PhD

Moderna

Shachi Bhatt, PhD, JEM Representative

Journal of Experimental Medicine

Paolo Cravedi, MD, PhD

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Anita Chong, PhD

University of Chicago

Leslie Kean, MD, PhD

Harvard University

Maayan Levy, PhD

University of Pennsylvania

Ciriaco Piccirillo, PhD

McGill University

Francisco Quintana, PhD

Brigham and Women’s Hospital/Harvard University

Jo Viney, PhD

Seismic Therapeutic

Isabelle Rivière, PhD

Takeda

Pamela L. Schwartzberg, MD, PhD

NIH/NIAID

Dimitrios Wagner, MD, PhD

Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin

Women in Clinical Immunology (WICI) Committee

The WICI Committee is charged with supporting career development for women in immunology, advocating for women’s participation and leadership at all levels in FOCIS and in the greater immunology community, and promoting the science of sex and gender in immunology.