Chairman Karsten Conrad (Germany) Co-Chairmen Jan Damoiseaux (The Netherlands) Christian Moritz (France) Honorary Chair Yehuda Shoenfeld (Israel) Marvin Fritzler (Canada) Advisory Board Luis E.C. Andrade (Brazil) Nicola Bizzaro (Italy) Martin Blüthner (Germany) Dimitrios P. Bogdanos (Greece) Xavier Bossuyt (Belgium) Carlos A. Casiano (USA) May Choi (Canada) Claudia Günther (Germany) Manfred Herold (Austria) Maria Infantino (Italy) Pier Lugi Meroni (Italy) Gabriela Riemekasten (Germany) Johan Rönnelid (Sweden) Daniela Sieghart (Austria) Günter Steiner (Austria) Carlos Alberto von Mühlen (USA) Industrial Board Lars Komorowski (EUROIMMUN Medizinische Labordiagnostika AG) Michael Mahler (Werfen) Nina Olschowka (Phadia GmbH ThermoFisher Scientific) Dirk Roggenbuck (Medipan GmbH) National Organizing Committee Rico Hiemann Thorsten Krieger Dirk Reinhold Ulrich Sack Clemens August Schulze Lohoff (Members of the Advisory Committee of the GFID e.V.)