Name: Marc Bonten
Function: Coordinator
Organisation: University Medical Center Utrecht
Email: M.J.M.Bonten@umcutrecht.nl

Background: Marc Bonten is clinical microbiologist at the UMC Utrecht, where he is head of the department of Medical Microbiology and head of Infectious Disease Epidemiology within the Julius Center of Health Sciences and Primary care. His research interests include ICU-acquired infections, antibiotic resistance, infection prevention, community-acquired pneumonia and mathematical modeling. He is coordinator of the 7thFP funded program R-GNOSIS (Resistance in Gram-Negative Organisms: Studying Intervention Strategies) and Academic Lead of the IMI-funded program COMBACTE (Combatting Antibiotic Resistance in Europe).
Tasks within WP: WP leader, overall coordination

Name: Alistair Nichol
Function: Coordinating team
Organisation: University College Dublin–School of Medicine and medical Science Monash University- School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine Alfred Hospital, Melbourne and St Vincent’s Hospital, Dublin Dept. of Intensive Care Medicine
Email: Alistair.nichol@ucd.ie

Background: Alistair is both an academic and an intensive care clinician, trained in Ireland and Australia. He is a Chair of Critical Care Medicine in the School of Medicine and Medical Sciences of University College Dublin and an Associate Professor Monash University- School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine. He is also an Honorary Intensivist in the Alfred Hospital, Melbourne and an intensivist in St Vincent’s university Hospital in Dublin. Alistair has direct clinical and research experience of conducting clinical trials in the critically ill patient cohort. In addition, Alistair is the WP leader for the PREPARE EARL package (along with Chris Butler and Steve Webb) many emerging and tropical infectious diseases in many countries of Southeast Asia.
Tasks within WP: WP team member

Name: Steve Webb
Function: Team member
Organisation: University of Western Australia
Email: Steve.webb@uwa.edu.au

Background: Steve Webb is a Senior Staff Specialist in Intensive Care Medicine at Royal Perth Hospital and a Clinical Professor at the University of Western Australia and Monash University. He is the immediate past-Chair of the ANZICS Clinical Trials Group, Vice-Chair of the International Forum of Acute Care Trialists, and a member of the Executive of the International Severe Acute Respiratory Illness Consortium. He is a founding Director of the Australian Clinical Trials Alliance, the peak body for investigator-led clinical trials networks in Australia. He has extensive experience as a trialist and clinical researcher with a leadership role in a range of international RCTs and cohort studies.
Tasks within WP: WP team member

Name: Derek Angus
Function: Team member
Organisation: University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA - Department of Critical Care Medicine
Email: angusdc@upmc.edu

Background: Dr. Angus is an intensivist, researcher, educator and administrator. He is Professor and Chair of the Department of Critical Care Medicine and Director of CRISMA (Clinical Research, Investigation, and Systems Modeling of Acute Illness) Center at the University of Pittsburgh. Dr. Angus trained at the University of Glasgow and University of Pittsburgh and spent a year in Hong Kong with Medicins Sans Frontieres. Dr. Angus’s has led and participated in numerous clinical trials, with his interests including clinical epidemiologic and translations issues related to sepsis, pneumonia, multisystem organ failure and health services delivery. He has published extensively and is also a Section Editor for JAMA.
Tasks within WP: Co-Investigator

Name: Lennie Derde
Function: Team member
Organisation: UMC Utrecht
Email: lderde@umcutrecht.nl

Background: Lennie is an internist and infectious diseases specialist by background, working as an intensivist in the UMC Utrecht. Our ICU is a tertiary reference center treating all types of patients including (neuro-)trauma, lung- and heart transplants, and assist devices. The subject of my PhD thesis was "Controlling antibiotic resistance in intensive care". The main subject was the MOSAR-ICU trial, a EU-funded project in the 6th Framework Program. In this cluster-randomized trial, 13 European ICU's from 9 countries participated to evaluate the impact of screening and isolation including rapid diagnostic testing, in a background of optimal hygiene, on transmission of antibiotic-resistant pathogens in the ICU.
Tasks within WP: Scientific advisor

Name: Gernot Rohde
Function: Chairman Executive Board CAPNETZ Stiftung
Organisation: CAPNETZ Stiftung
Email: g.rohde@mumc.nl

Background: Gernot Rohde is a specialist and academic in respiratory medicine with a strong focus on respiratory infections, trained in Germany, France and the UK. He is an Associate Professor of Respiratory Medicine at the Maastricht University Medical Center. Since 2009 he is the chairman of the executive board of the CAPNETZ Stiftung (foundation). CAPNETZ includes one of the biggest clinical networks in respiratory infections with centers in Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Denmark and the Netherlands.
Tasks within WP: Coordination of clinical respiratory networks

Name: Wilma van Bentum-Puijk
Function: Project Manager
Organisation: University Medical Center Utrecht
Email: W.W.Puijk-2@umcutrecht.nl

Background: Starting her career as a Quality Control Officer at a CRO specialized in Phase 1 trials, she has evolved to Project Assistant and later Project Manager. As a Project Manager, her main responsibility was to coordinate start-up, conduct and closure of multiple Phase 1 trials within the given study timelines. Tasks included, but not limited to, were creation of study documents, the preparation and performance of IRB and CA submissions, first point of contact for internal and external stakeholders, coordinate and chair internal and external meetings. The next step in her career, was the position of Project-Setup Manager at a Global Central Laboratory. Main responsibility was to setup (global) clinical trials from a laboratory point of view. Main responsibilities, but not limited to, were coordinating the setup for the trial in the given timeliness, creation of laboratory documents, setting up the logistics of several types of samples, coordinate and chair internal and external meetings etc. In all her positions, she made sure that that high quality of the data was obtained and that to all (inter)national legislation, SOPs and study demands was adhered.
Tasks within WP: WP member

Name: Sebastiaan Hullegie
Function: Project Manager
Organisation: UMC Utrecht
Email: S.J.Hullegie-2@umcutrecht.nl

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Name: Scott Berry
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Organisation: Berry consultants
Email: scott@berryconsultants.com

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