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Association of Medical Microbiology and Infectious Disease Canada

The Association of Medical Microbiology and Infectious Disease Canada (AMMI) is a Canadian nonprofit professional association based in Ottawa, Ontario.

History

AMMI co-hosted the virtual 2021 AMMI Canada - CACMID Annual Conference on April 25-30, 2021.[1]

Organization

AMMI is affiliated with the Canadian Medical Association (CMA), with which the organization collaborated “on a policy on antimicrobial resistance.”[2] AMMI is also partnered with the European Society for Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ESCMID).[3]

AMMI has been a client of Meducom Health.[4]

Personnel

AMMI personnel and notable members include:

Name Position Notes
Gerald Evans President (former); Guidelines Committee Chair[5] Queen's University, Kingston Health Sciences Centre (KHSC), Committee to Evaluate Drugs (CED), Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences (ICES), Public Health Ontario (PHO), Cancer Care Ontario, Ontario Drug Policy Research Network (ODPRN), Reformulary Group, Canadian Lyme Disease Research Network (CLDRN), Ontario COVID-19 Science Advisory Table (OST)
Mark Joffe President (former)[6] Alberta Ministry of Health, Alberta Health Services (AHS), Royal Alexandra Hospital (RAH), University of Alberta Department of Medicine
Caroline Quach-Thanh President (March 2016-May 2018)[7] National Advisory Committee on Immunization (NACI), CHU Sainte-Justine, Institut national de santé publique du Québec (INSPQ)
Coleman Rotstein President (former)[8] National Advisory Committee on Immunization (NACI), Ontario Medical Association (OMA), McMaster University, Canadian Infectious Disease Society (CIDS), Canadian Journal of Infectious Diseases and Medical Microbiology, University of Toronto, University Health Network (UHN), Mentoring in IBD
Don Vinh Guidelines Committee Chair[9] COVID-19 Therapeutics Task Force, McGill University Health Centre (MUHC), Canadian Glycomics Network (GlycoNet), Clinical Immunology Society (CIS), Comité consultatif québécois pour les maladies rares, MUHC COVID-19 Biobank, COVID-19 and Cancer Consortium (CCC19), COVID Human Genetic Effort (CHGE)
Jeannette Comeau Member;[10] Liaison Representative to NACI[11] National Advisory Committee on Immunization (NACI), Dalhousie University Department of Pediatrics, Royal Society of Canada (RSC), Canadian Immunization Research Network (CIRN)

Funding

The organization has received funding from:[12][1:1]

  1. 2021 Annual Conference. AMMI. Retrieved January 8, 2022, from https://web.archive.org/web/20220118173704/https://ammi.ca/en/conference/2021/ ↩︎ ↩︎

  2. Affiliates, Associated Societies and Observer Organizations. Canadian Medical Association. Retrieved September 15, 2024, from https://web.archive.org/web/20240915004151/https://www.cma.ca/about-us/who-we-are/collaborators/affiliates-associated-societies-and-observer-organizations ↩︎

  3. Partner Societies. ESCMID. Retrieved October 27, 2022, from https://web.archive.org/web/20221027051800/https://www.escmid.org/membership_organisation/partners/partner_societies ↩︎

  4. Home. MEDUCOM. Retrieved November 28, 2024, from https://web.archive.org/web/20241128024605/https://www.meducom.ca/ ↩︎

  5. Gerald Evans. KHSC Kingston Health Sciences Centre. Retrieved May 4, 2022, from http://archive.today/2022.05.04-063155/https://web.archive.org/web/20211224155124/https://deptmed.queensu.ca/people/evans ↩︎

  6. Office of the Chief Medical Officer of Health. Government of Alberta. Retrieved June 25, 2023, from http://archive.today/2023.06.25-201802/https://www.alberta.ca/office-of-the-chief-medical-officer-of-health.aspx ↩︎

  7. Caroline Quach - Experience. LinkedIn. Retrieved March 21, 2022, from https://www.linkedin.com/in/carolinequach/details/experience/ ↩︎

  8. Rotstein, Coleman. Mentoring in IBD. Retrieved April 19, 2022, from http://archive.today/2022.04.19-151643/https://www.mentoringinibd.com/faculty-member/rotstein-coleman/ ↩︎

  9. Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada. (2022, March 10). COVID-19 Therapeutics Task Force. Government of Canada. https://web.archive.org/web/20240301013100/https://ised-isde.canada.ca/site/canadian-life-science-industries/en/covid-19-therapeutics-task-force ↩︎

  10. Jeannette Comeau. Dalhousie University. Retrieved December 23, 2024, from https://web.archive.org/web/20241223224839/https://medicine.dal.ca/departments/department-sites/pediatrics/our-people/our-faculty/jeannette-comeau.html ↩︎

  11. Public Health Agency of Canada. (2022, June 15). National Advisory Committee on Immunization (NACI): Membership and representation. Government of Canada. https://web.archive.org/web/20220811012642/https://www.canada.ca/en/public-health/services/immunization/national-advisory-committee-on-immunization-naci/naci-membership-representation.html ↩︎

  12. Sponsorship & Exhibitor Prospectus. (2021, December). Association of Medical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases Canada. https://ammi.ca/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/2022-Sponsorship-.Exhibitor-ProspectusFINAL.pdf ↩︎