APSR Leadership

Officers of the APSR

YoungSoo Shim President and 2009 Congress President	Mary Sau-Man Ip Secretary General and President-Elect
Norbert Berend Immediate Past-President	Shoji Kudoh Treasurer
Y C Gary Lee Editor-in-Chief

Executive Committee

The Executive Committee comprises

the Officers,
the Members Representing the Council Members,
the Chair Central of the Congress Committee,
the Representative Heads of the Assemblies, and
the Strategic Planning Committee

YoungSoo Shim (Chair)
J Patrick Barron
Norbert Berend
Kwun M Fong
Yoshinosuke Fukuchi
Takashi Horie
Mary Sau-Man Ip
Alan James
Shoji Kudoh
Bing Lam
Michiaki Mishima
Yoichi Nakanishi
Masaharu Nishimura
Paul Reynolds
J Paul Seale
Wan-Cheng Tan
Faisal Yunus

Executive Members Representing the Council Members

Masaharu Nishimura (Japan)
Paul Reynolds (Australia)
Mary Sau-Man lp (Hong-Kong)
Faisal Yunus (Indonesia)

Strategic Planning Committee

Norbert Berend (Chairperson)
J Patrick Barron
Yoshinosuke Fukuchi
Takashi Horie
Wan-Cheng Tan
J Paul Seale
YoungSoo Shim

Finance Committee

Shoji Kudoh (Chairperson)
YoungSoo Shim
Mary Sau-Man Ip
(plus vacancies for two further members)

Research Committee

Michiaki Mishima (Chairperson)
H Aizawa
Rongchang Chen
Peter Cistulli
Peter Eastwood
James C M Ho
Masaharu Nishimura
Ken W T Tsang

Education Committee

Bing Lam (Chairperson)
A Azuma
R Beasley
S Hashimoto
K Takahashi
Yongjian Xu

Central Congress Committee

Kwun M Fong	Chairperson
YoungSoo Shim	President and President of the previous Congress
Mary Sau-Man Ip	Secretary General and President-Elect
Shoji Kudoh	Treasurer
Heads of Assemblies	(as listed below)
Michiaki Mishima	Chairperson of the Research Committee
Bing Lam	Chairperson of the Education Committee
Y C Gary Lee	Representative of the Editorial Office
Teresita de Guia	President of the current Congress

Representative Heads of the Assemblies

Yoichi Nakanishi	Head Assembly Group 1
Alan James	Head Assembly Group 2

Heads of Assemblies

Christopher Lai	Asthma
Fumihiro Asano	Bronchoscopy and Interventional Techniques
Takahide Nagase	Cell and Molecular Biology
Masaharu Nishimura	COPD
Shu Hashimoto	Clinical Allergy & Immunology
V K Vijayan	Clinical Respiratory Medicine
Hiroshi Kubo	Critical Care Medicine
Takashi Nakano	Environmental & Occupational Health and Epidemiology
Yoshikazu Inoue	Interstitial Lung Disease
Yoichi Nakanishi	Lung Cancer
Anne Chang	Pediatric Lung Disease
Keishi Kubo	Pulmonary Circulation
Young Whan Kim	Respiratory Infections (non-tuberculosis)
Tsuneto Akashiba	Respiratory Neurobiology and Sleep
Alan James	Respiratory Structure and Function
Guy Marks	Tuberculosis