Board of Directors
If you wish to contact one of the WAO Board of Directors, please send an email to: info@worldallergy.org. To learn more about each member of the WAO Board, please click on their name.
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PRESIDENT Motohiro Ebisawa Center for Allergy and Rheumatology National Hospital Organization, Sagamihara National Hospital Sagamihara, Kanagawa, Japan |
PRESIDENT-ELECT Bryan Martin Medicine and Pediatrics Ohio State University Columbus, OH, USA |
SECRETARY-GENERAL / TREASURER Mário Morais-Almeida Allergy Center Hospital CUF-Descobertas Lisboa, Portugal |
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PAST-PRESIDENT Ignacio J. Ansotegui Department of Allergy and Immunology Hospital Quirónsalud Bizkaia Erandio, Bilbao, Spain |
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MEMBERS-AT-LARGE |
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Jonathan A. Bernstein Division of Immunology/Allergy University of Cincinnati Cincinnati, OH, U.S.A. |
Luis Caraballo (ex-Officio) Institute for Immunological Research University of Cartagena Cartagena, Colombia |
Yoon-Seok Chang Division of Allergy & Clinical Immunology Seoul National University Bundang Hospital Seongnam, Republic of Korea |
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Adnan Custovic Professor of Paediatric Allergy National Heart & Lung Institute Imperial College London |
Manana Chikhladze Asthma and Clinical Immunology Akaki Tsereteli State University KuTaisi, Tskaltubo, Georgia |
Alessandro Fiocchi Pediatric Hospital Bambino Gesù Vatican City |
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Sandra N González-Díaz Allergy and Clinical Immunology University Hospital Dr. Jose Eleuterio Gonzalez and Medical School University Autonoma de Nuevo León Monterrey, Nuevo León, México |
Luciana Kase Tanno Division of Allergy Department of Pulmonology Hôpital Arnaud de Villeneuve University Hospital of Montpellier Montpellier, France |
Michael Levin Division Paediatric Allergology University of Cape Town Red Cross Children’s Hospital Cape Town, South Africa |
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José Antonio Ortega-Martell (ex-Officio) School of Medicine Autonomous University of Hidalgo State Pachuca, Hidalgo, Mexico |
David B. Peden Pediatric Allergy, Immunology & Rheumatology University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, NC, U.S.A. |
Philip W. Rouadi Department of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery Eye and Ear University Hospital, International Beirut, Lebanon |
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James L. Sublett Pediatric Allergy & Immunology University of Louisville School of Medicine Louisville, KY, U.S.A. |
Lianglu Wang People's Republic of China |
Gary W.K. Wong Department of Paediatrics The Chinese University of Hong Kong Prince of Wales Hospital Hong Kong |
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Anahí Yáñez Allergy and Respiratory Disease Research Center Buenos Aires, Argentina |