ISMIND is structured to promote scientific rigor, interdisciplinary dialogue, and clinically meaningful integration. Each role within the congress is clearly defined to ensure academic quality, balanced discussion, and lasting scientific impact.
Session Chairs
Session Chairs provide academic leadership and safeguard the scientific integrity of the session. They ensure thematic coherence, maintain time discipline, and facilitate high-level scholarly exchange. Chairs guide the overall flow of the session while preserving its conceptual clarity and educational value.
Moderated Discussion
The Moderated Discussion is a structured interactive segment that follows formal presentations within selected sessions. It is designed to move beyond didactic content delivery and foster genuine academic exchange. The Moderator leads the discussion using pre-formulated questions and scientific highlights prepared in advance in coordination with the Session Fellows. The active discussion involves the Moderator, Invited Speakers, Session Chairs, and Panelists, who together explore the clinical and scientific implications of the session’s core themes from complementary perspectives. Session Fellows do not participate as active speakers during this segment; instead, they observe, synthesize the discussion, and document the key outcomes. This format is central to ISMIND’s commitment to structured, practice-oriented scientific dialogue.
Moderators
Moderators lead the interactive discussion segments. Their role is to stimulate critical thinking, encourage multidisciplinary dialogue, and ensure that key clinical implications are clearly articulated. Moderators bridge formal presentations with real-world applicability.
Panelists
Panelists contribute focused expert commentary during moderated discussions. They respond to structured questions, offer complementary perspectives, and help deepen both scientific and clinical understanding of the topic under discussion.
Session Fellows
Session Fellows serve as the scientific backbone of each session’s documentation and preparation. Prior to the session, they work in close coordination with the Moderator to prepare structured discussion questions and identify key scientific highlights to be addressed during the Moderated Discussion. During the session itself, Session Fellows do not participate as active speakers. Instead, they observe attentively, follow the presentations and discussions, and synthesize the scientific content in real time. Their responsibilities include:
- Preparing structured discussion questions and scientific highlights in coordination with the Moderator prior to the session
- Identifying key scientific highlights during the session
- Synthesizing major concepts and areas of consensus or debate
- Producing a concise post-session summary
- Formulating clear, practice-oriented take-home messages
This role ensures intellectual continuity, critical synthesis, and long-term academic documentation of the session outcomes.
Following the congress, Session Fellows are responsible for preparing post-session summary videos and written summaries based on their observations and notes. These materials must be submitted to the Organizing Committee within 10 days after the congress.
Invited Speakers
Invited Speakers provide focused, evidence-based expertise within structured sessions of the scientific program. Their presentations integrate current research findings with practical clinical implications.
Network / Regional Collaboration Session Leads
Network Session Leads coordinate regional data presentations and collaborative initiatives. They facilitate dialogue between participating centers and promote sustainable multicenter cooperation, shared registries, and real-world data development.
The ISMIND Scientific Framework
Through clearly defined academic roles, ISMIND ensures:
- Structured and balanced scientific dialogue
- Critical appraisal of emerging evidence
- Translation of immunological mechanisms into clinical decision-making
- Sustainable academic collaboration beyond the congress itself
This structured governance model reflects ISMIND’s commitment to scientific precision, multidisciplinary integration, and long-term academic impact.