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
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)
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
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
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
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
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 |






