CONFIRMED SPEAKERS



Claudio GENCHI, DVM, PhD
Full Professor of Parasitic Diseases
Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Milan, Italy
Honorary Membership American Heart-worm Society
Member of the European Veterinary Parasitology College (EVPC)
Member of the World Association for the Advancement of Veterinary Parasitology (WAAVP)
Member of the Italian Society of Veterinary Sciences
Editor of the Veterinary Parasitology
Bertrand LOSSON, DVM; PhD; Dipl EVPC
Full Professor at the Department of Infectious and Parasitic Diseases, University of Liège, Belgium
Member of the Board of Directors of the Institute of Tropical Medicine
Associate member of the Académie Royale des Sciences d’Outre Mer
Member of the ARES-CCD Board
Doctor Honoris Causa of the University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania


Smaragda SOTIRAKI, DVM, PhD Diplom EVPC
Senior Researcher
Veterinary Research Institute,
Hellenic Agricultural Organisation-Demeter, Thessaloniki, Greece




Hervé PELLOUX, MD, PhD
Full professor of Medical Parasitology and Mycology, Grenoble University Hospital and Medicine Faculty, France
Head of the Parasitology-Mycology department of Grenoble University Hospital, France
Member of the research team Host-Pathogen Interactions and Immunity to Infection, IAB Institute INSERM/CNRS/UGA, Grenoble
Medical member of the Directory Board of the Grenoble University Hospital
Vice Dean for Research, Medicine Faculty Grenoble
Member of the French Society of Parasitology
Member of the Board of the European Study Group on Clinical Parasitology of the ESCMID

Olgica DJURKOVIC-DJAKOVIC, MD, PhD
Professor of Research
National Reference Laboratory for Toxoplasmosis
Centre of Excellence for Food- and Vector-borne Zoonoses
Institute for Medical Research, University of Belgrade
President of the Serbian Society of Parasitology
Christelle POMARES, MD, PhD
Associate Professor
Parasitology – Mycology Laboratory
University Hospital Nice
Inserm 1065 C3M, University of Nice Sophia Antipolis, France
Member of the French Society of Parasitology
Member of the French Association of Parasitology and Mycology Professors