Mojca Zajc Avramovič, MD, Ph.D. is a pediatric rheumatologist at University Children's Hospital in Ljubljana, Slovenia. Her daily clinical work includes different immunologic disturbances in children, including rheumatologic diseases, immunodeficiencies, and allergic conditions. Her research focuses specifically on juvenile idiopathic arthritis, and lately on the multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children. She lives with her family and two cats in Ljubljana.

I was born in Warsaw in 1985.I graduated from Medical University of Warsaw in 2011. Since 2016 I have been working in Department of Pediatrics with Clinical Assessment Unit, Medical University of Warsaw. In 2020 I passed the specialization exam obtaining the professional title of pediatrician.

Dr. Theoklis Zaoutis (Fulbright Visiting Scholar, 2017–2018) is Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Pennsylvania and attending physician and former Chief of the Division of Infectious Diseases at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; as well as Director of the Center for Pediatric Clinical Effectiveness Research at the CHOP Research Institute, whose mission is to discover, disseminate, and implement knowledge about best practices in pediatrics. In Greece, Dr. Zaoutis is Professor-Elect at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens School of Medicine in Athens, Greece. In addition, he serves as Scientific Director at the Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Outcomes Research (CLEO), which he founded in 2011 under the auspices of the 1st and 2nd Pediatric Department of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and supported by a generous grant from the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF); CLEO's vision is to improve patient safety and the quality of healthcare services in Greece through research, education, and targeted interventions to strengthen the Greek healthcare system. Dr. Zaoutis also serves as an advisor to the Greek Ministry of Health and to the country's newly established National Organization for Quality Assurance in Health (ODIPY). Finally, Dr. Zaoutis is a member of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) Committee on Infectious Diseases and is Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society. His research interests include antimicrobial resistance and stewardship, fungal infections, hospital-acquired infections (HAIs), and hospital and clinical epidemiology and has published over 300 papers.

I graduated from the Ph.D. program in Pediatrics at Odessa National Medical University with successful dissertation completion "Epidemiology, modern features of diagnosis, clinical course, correction of pathological shifts and prognosis of infectious mononucleosis of herpesvirus etiology in children" in 2020. From 2016 up today working as an assistant in the Children Infectious Diseases Department of Odessa National Medical University.

Dr. Zimet is Professor of Pediatrics and Clinical Psychology in the Division of Adolescent Medicine, Department of Pediatrics at Indiana University School of Medicine, with adjunct appointments in the School of Nursing. In addition, he is Co-Director of the Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) Center for HPV Research. Dr. Zimet started investigating attitudes about vaccines for adolescents in the mid-1990s. Much of his research has involved the study of vaccine acceptance and refusal, with a primary focus over the past 20 years on attitudes about HPV vaccine as well as the behavioral and social determinants of HPV vaccination. His studies have focused on adolescents and young adults, parents of adolescents, and health care providers and include evaluations of vaccine communication intervention strategies. Dr. Zimet’s adolescent vaccination research has involved collaborations with investigators across the United States, Canada, the U.K., Australia, the Netherlands, and Malaysia. Since 2000, he has authored or co-authored over 100 research, review, and editorial articles about HPV vaccination.

Annelies Zinkernagel, MD PhD, trained in infectious diseases and internal medicine as well as experimental microbiology. She is the chair and professor of the department of Infectious Diseases and Hospital Hygiene at the University Hospital Zurich, University of Zurich, Switzerland. Her research focuses on exploring bacterial pathogen host interactions aiming to understand virulence mechanisms for identification of novel targets for anti-infective therapy and the pathogenesis of chronic infections associated with biofilms and persisters as well as studying the potential of boosting the host’s innate immune system by increasing the microbicidal capacity of phagocytes aiming to prevent bacterial relapse. She is the president- elect of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases and member of the Swiss federal commission for vaccinations.

Born and raised in Basel, Rolf Zinkernagel studied at the Medical School of the University of Basel, obtaining his MD degree in 1968, and graduating to become a surgeon. In the Institute of Biochemistry of Lausanne he worked on immunity against infections and1973-75 at the Australian National University, Canberra, where Peter Doherty and he made seminal observations on how cytotoxic T cells recognize virus infected cells in an infected host (Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine 1996). He moved to the Scripps Clinic and Research Foundation in La Jolla, USA from 1975 to 1979, where he studied T cell maturation and development of the T cell repertoire, dependent on the transplantation antigen expression in the thymus. In 1980 he joined the Department of Pathology, University of Zurich, as an associate professor where, together with Hans Hengartner, he has been studying immune protection and immunopathology caused by virus infections. He has retired from the University in spring 2008.