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Audit and Finance Committee

Co-Chair - Richard Lockey, USA
Co-Chair - Ruby Pawankar, Japan
G. Walter Canonica, Italy
Yehia El-Gamal, Egypt
Bee-Wah Lee, Singapore
Marek Kowalski, Poland
Noel Rodriguez Perez, Mexico

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Awards Committee

Chair - G. Walter Canonica, Italy
Vice Chair - Richard Lockey, USA
Jean Bousquet, France
Chaweewan Bunnag, Thailand
Arnaldo Capriles, Venezuela
Thomas Casale, USA
Yehia El-Gamal, Egypt
Roy Gerth Van Wijk, the Netherlands
Michael Kaliner, USA
You Young Kim, South Korea
Marcelo Kohan, Argentina
Ruby Pawankar, Japan
Jay Portnoy, USA
Sergio Romagnani, Italy
Eugene Weinberg, South Africa

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Bylaws Committee

Co-Chair - Richard Lockey, USA
Co-Chair - Ruby Pawankar, Japan
Vice Chair - Lanny Rosenwasser, USA
Yehia El-Gamal, Egypt
Anthony Frew, United Kingdom
Juan Carlos Ivancevich, Argentina
Jan Lotvall, Sweden
Hae Sim Park, South Korea

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Communications Council

Chair - Richard Lockey, USA
Vice Chair - Marek Kowalski, Poland
Ioanna Agache, Romania
Isil Barlan, Turkey
Fulvio Braido, Italy
Lawrence DuBuske, USA
Juan Carlos Ivancevich, Argentina
AF Kalpaklioglu, Turkey
Asif Mujitaba Mahmud, Bangladesh
Nikos Papadopoulos, Greece
Ruby Pawankar, Japan
Hirohisa Saito, Japan
Daniel Vervloet, France
Pakit Vichyanond, Thailand
Myron Zitt, USA
Torsten Zuberbier, Germany

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Congress Council

Chair - G. Walter Canonica, Italy
Vice Chair - Noel Rodriguez Perez, Mexico
Vice Chair - Richard Lockey, USA
Carlos E. Baena-Cagnani, Argentina
Fernan Caballero, Venezuela
Takeshi Fukuda, Japan
Michael Kaliner, USA
You-Young Kim, South Korea
Revaz Sepiashvili, Russia
Pakit Vichyanond, Thailand
Myron Zitt, USA

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Credentials Committee

Chair - Ruby Pawankar, Japan
Michael Blaiss, USA
Thomas Casale, USA
Jan Lotvall, Sweden
Paul Potter, South Africa
Mario Sanchez Borges, Venezuela

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Education Council

Chair - G. Walter Canonica, Italy
Co-Chair - Ruby Pawankar, Japan
Co-Chair - Lanny Rosenwasser, USA
Sergio Bonini, Italy
Jean Bousquet, France
Yu Zhi Chen, China
Adnan Custovic, United Kingdom
Yehia El-Gamal, Egypt
Stephen Holgate, United Kingdom
Dolores Ibanez, Spain
Omer Kalayci, Turkey
Allen Kaplan, USA
Ranbir Kaulsay, Malaysia
Richard Lockey, USA
Fontana Luigi, Italy
Adriana Marcipar, Argentina
Gailen Marshall, USA
Hee-Bom Moon, South Korea
Jose Antonio Ortega Martel, Mexico
Hae Sim Park, South Korea
Todor Popov, Bulgaria
Paul Potter, South Africa
Noel Rodriguez Perez, Mexico
VK Vijayan, India

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Emerging Societies Committee

Chair - Carlos E. Baena-Cagnani, Argentina
Chair - Myron Zitt, USA
Co-Chair - Marek Kowalski, Poland
Co-Chair - Ruby Pawankar, Japan
Ignacio Ansotegui, Spain
Jean Bousquet, France
Fernan Caballero, Venezuela
G. Walter Canonica, Italy
Iyadh Douagi
Larwence Du Buske, USA
Diana Dumitrascu, Romania
Roy Gerth Van Wijk, the Netherlands
Sandra Gonzalez Diaz, Mexico
Rashidul Hassan, Bangladesh
Allen Kaplan, USA
Nikoi Khaltaev, Switzerland
Bee-Wah Lee, Singapore
Liang Lu Wang, China
Yoseph Mekori, Israel
Jay Portnoy, USA
Revaz Sepiashivili, Russia
Anand B. Singh, India
Osman Yusuf, Pakistan

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Ethics Committee

Chair - Allen Kaplan, USA
Chair - Bee-Wah Lee, Singapore
Ignacio Ansotegui, Spain
Charles Naspitz, Brazil
Todor Popov, Bulgaria

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GLORIA Advisory Board

Chair - Ruby Pawankar, Japan
Vice Chair - Jean Bousquet, France
Carlos E. Baena-Cagnani, Argentina
Yehia El-Gamal, Egypt
Takeshi Fukuda, Japan
Stephen Holgate, United Kingdom
Michael Kaliner, USA
Marek Kowalski, Poland
Bee-Wah Lee, Singapore
Richard Lockey, USA
Paul Potter, South Africa
Noel Rodriguez Perez, Mexico
Lanny Rosenwasser, USA
Mario Sanchez-Borges, Venezuela
Pakit Vichyanond, Thailand
Myron Zitt, USA

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US GLORIA Advisory Board

Chair - Richard Lockey, WAO
Chair - Michael Kaliner, WAO
Bill Dolen, ACAAI
Marianne Frieri, ACAAI
Allen Kaplan, WAO
David Khan, ACAAI
Anthony Montanaro, ACAAI
John Oppenheimer, ACAAI
Jay Portnoy, ACAAI
Lanny Rosenwasser, WAO
Myron Zitt, WAO

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Research Council

Chair - Jean Bousquet, France
Vice Chair - Stephen Holgate, United Kingdom
Vice Chair - Thomas Casale, USA
Cezmi Akdis, Switzerland
Karla Arruda, Brazil
Isil Barlan, Turkey
Pascal Demoly, France
Stephen Durham, United Kingdom
Takeshi Fukuda, Japan
R. Maximiliano Gomez, Argentina
Dennis Ledford, USA
Peter LeSouef, Australia
Massimo Triggiani, Italy
Yoseph Mekori, Israel
Dean Metcalfe, USA
Giovanni Passalacqua, Italy
Lanny Rosenwasser, USA
Mario Sanchez-Borges, Venezuela
Alkis Togias, USA
Pakit Vichyanond, Thailand
Erika Von Mutius, Germany
Gustabo Zabert

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Specialty and Training Council

Chair - Lanny Rosenwasser, USA
Co-Chair - Sergio Del Giacco, Italy
Mario Morais Almeida, Portugal
Yu Zhi Chen, China
Tomas Chivato, Spain
Carlos Crisci, Argentina
Diana Dumitrascu, Romania
David Hill, Australia
Michael Kaliner, USA
You Young Kim, South Korea
Jan Lotvall, Sweden
Werner Pichler, Switzerland
Todor Popov, Bulgaria
Paul Potter, South Africa
Ashok Shah, USA
Paolo Tassinari, Venezuela
Ulrich Wahn, Germany
John O. Warner, United Kingdom
Paul Van Cauwenberge, Belgium
Erkka Valovirta, Finland

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World Allergy Forum (WAF) Advisory Board

Chair - G. Walter Canonica, Italy
Vice Chair - Richard Lockey, USA
Jean Bousquet, France
Thomas Casale, USA
Takeshi Fukuda, Japan
Roy Gerth Van Wijk, the Netherlands
Stephen Holgate, United Kingdom
Michael Kaliner, USA
Bee-Wah Lee, Singapore
Jorge Maspero, Argentina
Klaus Rabe, the Netherlands
Lanny Rosenwasser, USA
Pakit Vichyanond, Thailand

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Special Committees

Allergy Diagnosis

Chair - Tari Haahtela, Finland
Ioanna Agache, Romania
Ignacio Ansotegui, Spain
Suwat Benjaponpitak, Thailand
Vito Brusasco, Italy
Jessie de Bruyne, Malaysia
Chaweewan Bunnag, Thailand
Fernan Caballero, Venezuela
Adnan Custovic, United Kingdom
Lawrence Du Buske, USA
Chein-Soo Hong, South Korea
Dennis Ledford, USA
Carlo Lombardi, Italy
Jan Lotvall, Sweden
Akihiro Morikawa, Japan
Lars Poulsen, Denmark
Maria Luisa Sanz, Spain
Hugo Van Bever, Singapore
Mario Zernotti, Argentina
Myron Zitt, USA
Torsten Zuberbier, Germany

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Anaphylaxis

Chair - Estelle Simons, Canada
Ledit Ardusso, Argentina
Beatrice Bilo, Italy
Dennis Ledford, USA
Mario Sanchez-Borges, Venezuela
Gian Enrico Senna, Italy
Aziz Sheikh, United Kingdom
Bernard Thong, Singapore

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ARIA-GARD-WAO

Chair - Jean Bousquet, France
Sergio Bonini, Italy
G. Walter Canonica, Italy
Alvaro Cruz, Brazil
Ronald Dahl, Denmark
Nikolai Khaltaev, Switzerland
E. O. Meltzer, USA
Ruby Pawankar, Japan
Alkis Togias, USA
Nan-San Zhong, China

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Asthma

Chair - Stephen Holgate, United Kingdom
Ioana Agache-Brumaru, Romania
William Berger, USA
Louis-Philippe Boulet, Canada
Roland Buhl, Germany
Thomas Casale, USA
Adnan Custovic, United Kingdom
Michael Foggs, USA
Tari Haahtela, Finland
Marc Humbert, France
Harold Nelson, USA
Ken Ohta, Japan
PL Paggiaro
Santiago Quirce, Spain
Gustavo Rodrigo, Uruguay
Nelson Rosario, Brazil
Mario Sanchez-Borges, Venezuela

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Clinical Trials in Allergy & Immunology

Chair - Sergio Bonini, Italy
Carlos E. Baena-Cagnani, Argentina
Fernan Caballero, Venezuela
G. Walter Canonica, Italy
Thomas Casale, USA
Alvaro Cruz, Brazil
Takeshi Fukuda, Japan
Eli Meltzer, USA
Ruby Pawankar, Japan
David Pearlman, USA
Paul Potter, South Africa
Estelle Simons, Canada
Stan Szefler, USA
Alkis Togias, USA
Torsten Zuberbier, Germany

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Drug Allergy

Chair - Pascal Demoly, France
Yanez Anahi, Argentina
Brian Baldo
Diana Dumitrascu, Romania
Marek Kowalski, Poland
Werner Pichler, Switzerland
Antonino Romano, Italy
Bernard Thong, Singapore
Mariana Castells, USA

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Evidence Based Medicine and Methodology

Chair - Holger Schunemann, Italy
Co-Chair - Jan Brozek, Poland
Philippe Bousquet, France
Jan Brazeg
Enrico Compalati, Italy
Martin Penagos, United Kingdom
Alvaro Teijeiro
Gary Wong, China
Stefan Vieths, Germany
Carlo Tomino, Italy

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Food Allergy

Chair - Alessandro Fiocchi, Italy
Sami Bahna, USA
Barbara Ballmer-Weber, Switzerland
Martin Bozzola, Argentina
Chng Hiok Hee, Singapore
Motohiro Ebisawa, Japan
Maria Antonieta Guzman, Chile
Ralf Heine, Australia
Gideon Lack, United Kingdom
Haiqi Li, China
Hugh Sampson, USA
Stefan Vieths, Germany

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Fundraising Committee

Chair - Richard Lockey, USA
Carlos Baena-Cagnani, Argentina
Jean Bousquet, France
G. Walter Canonica, Italy
Thomas Casale, USA
Takeshi Fukuda, Japan
Stephen Holgate, United Kingdom
Michael Kaliner, USA
Motohiro Kurosawa, Japan
Ruby Pawankar, Japan
Noel Rodriguez Perez, Mexico

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Immunotherapy

Chair - Giovanni Passalacqua, Italy
Chair - Dennis Ledford, USA
Carlos E. Baena-Cagnani, Argentina
Jean Bousquet, France
Chaweewan Bunnag, Thailand
Moises Calderon, United Kingdom
Chng Hiok Hee, Singapore
Linda Cox, USA
Peter Creticos, USA
Stephen Durham, United Kingdom
Jing Long Huang, Taiwan
Xiaoqing Jia, Canada
Ranbir Kaulsay, Malaysia
Desiree Larenas Linneman, Mexico
Carlso Lombardi, Italy
Hans-Jorgen Malling, Denmark
Harold Nelson, USA
Y. Ohashi, Japan
Jose M Olaguibel, Spain
Ruby Pawankar, Japan
Martin Penagos, United Kingdom
Paul Potter, South Africa
Rudolf Valenta, Austria
Erkka Valovirta, Finland
Nan-San Zhong, China

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Impact of Climate Change on Allergy

Chair - Ronald Dahl, Denmark

Sub-Committee: Allergen Types
Vice Chair - Gennaro D'Amato, Italy
Oscar Aldrey, Venezuela
Michael Blaiss, USA
Cas Motala, South Africa

Sub-Committee: Allergy Prevalence and Migrations
Vice Chair - Menachem Rottem, Israel
Adnan Custovic, United Kingdom
Lawernce DuBuske, USA
Nelson Rosario, Brazil
Pakit Vichyanond, Thailand

 

 

 

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