APSR Leadership

Officers of the APSR

Norbert Berend President	Pan-Chyr Yang Secretary General
Young Soo Shim President-elect and 2009 Congress President-elect	Shoji Kudoh Treasurer
Philip J. Thompson Editor-in-Chief	Arth Nana 2008 Congress President

Executive Committee

The Executive Committee comprises

the Officers,
the Members Representing the Council Members, and
the Strategic Planning Committee

Norbert Berend (Chair)
Arth Nana
Faisal Yunus
J Patrick Barron
J Paul Seale
Kwun M Fong
Mary Sau-Man Ip
Masaharu Nishimura
Michiaki Mishima
Pan-Chyr Yang
Paul Reynolds
Philip John Thompson
Richard Beasley
Richard Ruffin
Shoji Kudoh
Takashi Horie
V K Vijayan
Wah-Kit Lam
Wan-Cheng Tan
Yoshinosuke Fukuchi
Young-Soo Shim

Executive Members Representing the Council Members

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

Strategic Planning Committee

Yoshinosuke Fukuchi (Chairperson)
J Patrick Barron
Norbert Berend
Takashi Horie
Wah-Kit Lam
J Paul Seale
Young-Soo Shim
Wan-Cheng Tan

Finance Committee

Shoji Kudoh (Chairperson)
Norbert Berend
Pan-Chyr Yang

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

Richard Beasley (Chairperson)
A Azuma
Eli Gabbay
S Hashimoto
Bing Lam
K Takahashi
Yongjian Xu

Heads of Assemblies

Richard Ruffin	Asthma
Philip Eng	Bronchoscopy and Interventional Techniques
Kwun Fong	Cell and Molecular Biology
Peter Black	COPD
Shu Hashimoto	Clinical Allergy & Immunology
V K Vijayan	Clinical Respiratory Medicine
Akitoshi Ishizaka	Critical Care Medicine
Michael Abramson	Environmental & Occupational Health and Epidemiology
Nobuoki Kohno	Interstitial Lung Disease
Yoichi Nakanishi	Lung Cancer
Anne Chang	Pediatric Lung Disease
Eli Gabbay	Pulmonary Circulation
Richard Loh	Respiratory Infections (non-tuberculosis)
Kohichiro Tatsumi	Respiratory Neurobiology and Sleep
Maureen Swanney	Respiratory Structure and Function
Mark Hurwitz	Tuberculosis

Central Congress Committee

Kwun M Fong	Chairperson
Norbert Berend	President
Pan-Chyr Yang	Secretary General
Shoji Kudoh	Treasurer
V K Vijayan	Assembly Head 1
Richard Ruffin	Assembly Head 2
Michiaki Mishima	Chairperson of the Research Committee
Richard Beasley	Chairperson of the Education Committee
Arth Nana	President of the next Congress
Christine Jenkins	President of the previous Congress
Philip J Thompson	Representative of the Editorial Office