Committees

Honorary Advisory Board
Board
Organizing Committee
International Scientific Committee
Local Scientific Committee

Honorary Advisory Board

WCB Takehiko Fujisawa Masahiro Fukuoka Kiyoyuki Furuse Yoshihiro Hayata Takashi Horie Hiroshi Ito Ichita Kawamura Koichi Kobayashi Michio Kohno Shoji Kudoh Eisuke Matsui Shoji Namikawa Hiroaki Osada Nagahiro Saijo Takayuki Shirakusa Keiichi Suemasu Mamoru Suzuki Eitaka Tsuboi Noriaki Tsubota Michio Yamakido Hirokuni Yoshimura	WCBE Mutsuo Amatsu Mitsuo Endo Hiroyuki Fukuda Tadashi Hinohara Takashi Horie Harubumi Kato Akinori Kida Satoshi Kitahara Sotaro Komiyama Hiroyasu Makuuchi Hiroharu Matsuda Yasushi Murakami Seiji Niimi Masahito Okayasu Mamoru Suzuki Tomonori Takasaka Takashi Tanaka Kiyoshi Togawa Hirokuni Yoshimura
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Board

WAB (World Association for Bronchology) Chair USA Udaya B.S. Prakash Vice Chair Spain J. P. Diaz-Jimenez WCB President (2008) Japan Harubumi Kato WCB President-Elect (2010) Germany Heinrich Becker WCB President-Elect (2012) USA Atul C. Mehta Immediate Past Chair Japan Hirokuni Yoshimura Treasurer Japan Hiroaki Osada Secretary General Japan J. Patrick Barron Editor-in-Chief of the JOB USA Atul C. Mehta Board Canada Stephen Lam France Jean F. Dumon Germany Heinrich Becker Lutz Freitag Felix Herth Italy Sergio Cavaliere Stefano Gasparini Japan Ryuta Amemiya Takehiko Fujisawa Norihiko Ikeda Masahiro Kaneko Koji Kikuchi Noriaki Kurimoto Yoko Kusunoki Teruomi Miyazawa Kazumitsu Ohmori Taeko Shirakawa Kiyoshi Shibuya Masahiro Tsuboi Yoichi Watanabe Republica Argentina Hugo Esteva Spain Luis Callol-Sanchez Teresa M. Argemi Coletas Ramon Rami-Porta Carlos Disdier Vicente The Netherlands Thomas G. Sutedja USA John F. Beamis Denis Cortese Eric S. Edell

IBES (International Bronchoesophagological Society) President Republica Argentina Hugo Esteva Vice President Japan Naoyuki Kohno Governing Council Austria Wlater Thumfart Brazil Seiji Nakakubo Germany Heinrich Becker Karl Hoermann Norbert Stasche Hungary Edgar Szekely Japan Mitsuo Endo Hiroyuki Fukuda Harubumi Kato Akinori Kida Shigenori Nakajima Akihiro Shiotani Taeko Shirakawa Korea Kwang Hyun Kim Republica Argentina J. A. Mazzei Patricia Vujacich Russia Alexei Ovchinnikov Spain J. P. Diaz-Jimenez Carlos Magrina Switzerland Philippe Monnier Taiwan Reury-Perng Perng The Netherlands Roland Vanderscheuren Turkey Gunseli Kilinc Uruguay Luis Fugasot USA John F. Beamis Paul Castellanos Peter Catalano Ellen Friedman Gerald B. Healy Lauren Hollinger Thomas M. McCaffrey H. Bryan Neel Udaya B. S. Prakash David R. Sanderson Stanley M. Shapshay Karen Swanson back to the top

Organizing Committee

WCB		WCBE
President	Harubumi Kato	President	Naoyuki Kohno
Vice Presidents	Takashi Hirano Chimori Konaka	Secretary General	Akihiro Shiotani
Secretary Generals	Masahiro Tsuboi Tatsuo Ohira
Chairpersons of Committees		Chairpersons of Committees
Scientific Program	Norihiko Ikeda	Scientific Program	Yasuo Hisa
Finance	Kazumitsu Ohmori	Finance	Seiji Kishimoto
Fund Raising	Kinya Furukawa	Fund Raising	Kaoru Ogawa
Liaison	Ryuta Amemiya	Liaison	Tadashi Nakashima
Publishing	Kiyoshi Shibuya	Publishing	Keiichi Ichimura
Hospitality	Chiaki Endo	Hospitality	Takakuni Kato
Conference Management	Haruhiko Nakamura	Conference Management	Mitsuru Furukawa
General Affairs	Koichi Kobayashi	General Affairs	Eiji Yumoto
Exhibition	Noriaki Kurimoto	Exhibition	Hiroshi Takenaka
Public Relations	Koji Kikuchi	Public Relations	Mamoru Tsukuda
Registration	Yoko Kusunoki	Registration	Shin-etsu Kamata
Education	Masahiro Kaneko	Education	Masahiko Tsurumaru
Ethics	Yoichi Watanabe	Ethics	Hiromasa Fujita
Social Program	Yasuyuki Yoshizawa	Social Program	Hideki Hirabayashi
Medical Specialties	Masayuki Baba	Medical Specialties	Hiroyuki Kuwano
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International Scientific Committee (WCB&WCBE)

Brazil	Carlos Barros Franco Mauro Zamboni
Canada	Jean Deslauriers Stephen Lam
China	Lam Bing Chan Yuk-Choi Charles Gomersall Liao Mei-Lin Zhong Nan-Shan William I. Wei
Colombia	Plutarco Garcia Herreros
France	Jean F. Dumon Hervé Dutau Pierre Fuentes Roger Giudicelli Michel Leroy Pascal Thomas
Germany	Heinrich Becker Lutz Freitag Felix Herth Klaus Hörmann Hermann Tonn Manfred Wagner
Greece	Kostas Zarogoulidis
Hungary	Gyorgy Baktài Edgar Szekely
Indonesia	Tamsil Syafiuddin
Israel	Yehuda Schwartz
Italy	Sergio Cavaliere Luigi Corti Stefano Gasparini Giuzeppe Marciano Bruno Pasquotti Lamberto Toniolo Massimo Torre
Korea	Sanghoon Jheon Hojoong Kim Kwang Hyun Kim Jae Yong Park Shim Tea Sun
Mongolia	Jambaa Oyunchimeg
Poland	Tadeusz Orlowski Tomasz Szczesny
Republica Argentina	Hugo Esteva
Romania	Zeno Popovici
Singapore	Pyng Lee
Spain	John Albert Barberá Luis Callol-Sanchez Teresa M. Argemi Coletas J. P. Diaz-Jimenez José Maestre Carlos Disdier Vicente
Sweden	Per Bergman
Taiwan	Chi-Cheng Chang Ming-Hsien Huang Shang-Jyh Kao Yu-Chin Lee Reury-Perng Perng Ying-Huang Tsai Chung-Jen Yu
Thailand	Yongyudh Ploysongsang Jamsak Tscheikuna
The Netherlands	Paul Baas Thomas G. Sutedja Nico van Zandwijk
Uruguay	Luis Piñeiro Jorge Nin Vivo
USA	John F. Beamis Paul F. Castellanos Henri Colt Denis Cortese Eric Edell Paul A. Kvale Praveen Matur Atul Mehta David Midthum Takao Ohnuma Bert W. O'Malley, Jr. Udaya B. S. Prakash David Sanderson Michael Unger Ko-Pen Wang Rex Yung
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Local Scientific Committee (WCB&WCBE)

Nobutoshi Ando Hirotaka Asato Masayuki Baba Hiroshi Date Kenji Eguchi Satoshi Fukuda Kinya Furukawa Masaki Furukawa Hajime Goto Tomoyuki Goya Nobuyoshi Hanyu Yasuaki Harabuchi Ryuta Haraguchi Yasuhisa Hasegawa Ryuichi Hayashi Masatoshi Hida Katsuhiro Hirakawa Takashi Hirano Satoshi Horiguchi Yoshifumi Hosokawa Masamitsu Hyodo Yuichi Ichinose Yukito Ichinose Katsuhisa Ikeda Michio Ikeda Shigemi Ishikawa	Yutaka Isogai Koichi Kaneko Masahiro Kaneko Masafumi Kawamura Norihiko Kawate Hideyuki Kawauchi Komei Kinoshita Yuko Kitagawa Hiroya Kitano Yoshihiko Koshiishi Takayuki Kuriyama Yuichi Kurono Toru Majima Yasushi Matsushima Hiroyuki Mineta Hiroyuki Miura Teruomi Miyazawa Shinichiro Miyoshi Kanji Nagai Kosyu Nagao Takeshi Nagayasu Kensei Naito Yoichi Nakanishi Haruhiko Nakayama Kenichi Nibu Yoshinobu Ohsaki	Makito Okamoto Yoshitaka Okamoto Hiroshi Okitsu Tetsuya Okunaka Koichi Ohmori Tsutomu Oosako Soji Ozawa Makoto Saito Hiroshi Sakai Takeyuki Sambe Yasuhiro Setoguchi Takayuki Shirakusa Masashi Sugasawa Kenji Suzuki Takashi Suzuki Hirohito Tada Keigo Takagi Hidenobu Takahashi Koichi Tanaka Niro Tayama Yuji Tohda Koichi Tomoda Misao Yoshida Toshio Yoshihara Kunitoshi Yoshino
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