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World Allergy Organization
WAO's mission: To be a global resource and advocate in the field of allergy, advancing excellence in clinical care through education, research and training as a world-wide alliance of allergy and clinical immunology societies.

2012-2013 Board of Directors

PRESIDENT
Ruby Pawankar
Nippon Medical School
Tokyo, Japan
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Stephen T. Holgate
TREASURER
Stephen T. Holgate
Southampton General Hospital - AIR, IIR Division
Southampton, United Kingdom
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SECRETARY-GENERAL
Mario Sánchez Borges

Clinica El Avila
Caracas, Venezuela
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Lanny J. Rosenwasser PRESIDENT-ELECT
Lanny J. Rosenwasser
The Dee Lyons/Missouri Chair in Pediatric Immunology Research
Children's Mercy Hospital & Clinics
Kansas City, MO, USA
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PAST-PRESIDENT
Richard F. Lockey
University of South Florida
College of Medicine
Tampa, FL, USA
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HISTORIAN
G. Walter Canonica

University of Genova DIMI
Allergy and Respiratory Diseases
Genova, Italy
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MEMBERS-AT-LARGE
Ignacio Ansotegui Ignacio Ansotegui
Head of Department of Allergy and Immunology
Hospital Quirón Bizkaia
Erandio, Spain
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Claus Bachert
Kliniek voor Neus-Keel-en Oorheelkunde
Gent, Belgium
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Michael Blaiss Michael Blaiss
Clinical Professor of Pediatrics and Medicine
University of Tennessee Health Science Center
Germantown, TN, USA
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Motohiro Ebisawa Motohiro Ebisawa
Sagamihara National Hospital
Division of Allergy
Kanagawa, Japan
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Roy Gerth van Wijk
Erasmus MC
Sector Allergologie
Rotterdam, Netherlands
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Sandra Gonzalez-Diaz Sandra González-Díaz
Head of Allergy and Clinical Immunology
Hospital Universitario and Medical School
Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León
Monterrey, Mexico
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Tari Haahtela Tari Haahtela
Skin and Allergy Hospital
Helsinki University Central Hospital
Helsinki, Finland
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Elham Hossny (Ex-Officio)
Ain Shams University
Cairo, Egypt
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Juan Carlos Ivancevich Juan Carlos Ivancevich
Universidad Del Salvador, Cátedra De Inmunología
Buenos Aires, Argentina
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Francesca Levi-Schaffer
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Department of Pharmacology
Jerusalem, Israel
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Susan Prescott
UWA School of Paediatrics and Child Health
Perth, Australia
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Nelson Rosario-Filho
University of Parana
Mossungue, Curitiba, Brazil
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Hugh Sampson
Mt. Sinai School of Medicine
Department of Pediatrics
New York, NY, USA
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Tatiana Slavyanskaya Tatiana Slavyanskaya
University of Russia
Institute of Immunophysiology
Moscow, Russia
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Dana Wallace
Fort Lauderdale, FL, USA
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