COMGAN Regional Subcommittees
The Regions:
- Asia:
- South Asia (India, Pakistan, Nepal, Sri-Lanka, Bhutan, Bangladesh, Maldives)
- East Asia (China, South Korea, North Korea, Mongolia)
- Southeast Asia (Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar)
- Indonesia-Philippines (including New Guinea, Brunei, and other Pacific islands)
- Middle East
- Latin America
- Africa
- Russia & CIS
- Eastern and Central Europe
The Chairs and Members:
Asia Subcommittee Visith Sitprija (Thailand), Chair / [email protected]
Hideto Sakai (Japan), Vice Chair / [email protected]
William Couser (USA), Vice Chair / [email protected]
- East Asia: William Couser (USA), Co-Chair (see above) Hideto Sakai (Japan), Co-Chair (see above) Members: Y. Kawaguichi (Japan) Haiyan Wang (P.R. China) Shanyan Lin (P.R. China)
- Indonesia-Philippines Tony Clarkson (Australia), Co-Chair / [email protected] William Couser (USA), Co-Chair (see above) Members: Irma Gueco (Philippines) Bob Atkins (Australia) Pudji Rahardjo (Indonesia) Wiguno Prodjosudjadi (Indonesia)
- South Asia Kirpal Chugh (India), Chair / [email protected] Members: Devinder Rana (India) Nathan Levin (USA) Jaffar Naqvi (Pakistan) Dimitrios Oreopoulos (Canada) Harun Ur-Rashid (Bangladesh) Rezvi Sheriff (Sri-Lanka)
- Southeast Asia Visith Sitprija (Thailand), Chair / [email protected] Members: Michael Field (Australia) Zaki Morad (Malaysia) Lawrence Chan (USA) Keng Thye Woo (Singapore)
Middle East Subcommittee John Dirks (Canada), Chair / [email protected] Abdullah Al Khader (Kingdom of Saudi Arabia), Vice Chair / [email protected]
Members: Omar Abboud (Qatar) Otto Mehls (Germany) Avinash Pingle (United Arab Emirates) Riyad Said (Jordan) Asghar Rastegar (USA) Mohamed Sayegh (USA)
Latin America Subcommittee Bernardo Rodriguez-Iturbe (Venezuela), Chair / [email protected] Pablo Massari (Argentina), Vice Chair / [email protected]
Members: Jaime Herrera-Acosta (Mexico) Elvira Arrizurieta (Argentina) Manuel Cerdas-Caldern (Costa Rica) Ezequiel BellorпїЅn-Font (Venezuela) Jorge Alfonso Guerra (Cuba) Fernando ValderrпїЅbano Sergio Mezzano (Chile) Bill Mitch (USA) Miguel Riella (Brazil) Giuseppe Remuzzi (Italy) Nestor Schor (Brazil)
Africa Subcommittee Sarala Naicker (South Africa), Chair / [email protected] Hedi Ben Maiz (Tunisia), Vice Chair / – [email protected]
Members: Marc de Broe (Belgium) Omar El Khashab (Egypt) Giovanni Fogazzi (Italy) Gnionsahe (Ivory Coast) Jean-Pierre Grunfeld (France) Anthony Meyers (South Africa) Chiratidzo Ndhlovu (Zimbabwe) Patrick Niaudet (France) Maher Ramzy (Egypt) Pierre Ronco (France) Salma Suleiman (Sudan)
Russia and Community of Independent States (CIS) Subcommittee John Dirks (Canada), Chair / [email protected] Natalia Tomilina (Russia), Vice Chair / [email protected] Fred Finkelstein (USA), Vice Chair / [email protected]
Eastern and Central Europe Subcommittee Eberhard Ritz (Germany), Chair / [email protected] Laszlo Rosivall (Hungary), Vice Chair / [email protected] Thomas Andreoli (USA) Mai Ots (Estonia) Ab J. Donker (Netherlands) Steven Sacks (UK) August Heidland (Germany) Gavril Hercz (Canada) Norbert Lameire (Belgium) Mai Ots (Estonia) Sandor Sonkodi (Hungary) Vladimir Teplan (Czech Republic) Jan Weening (Netherlands)
FULL ADDRESSES OF THE COMGAN OVERALL CHAIRMEN:
John Dirks Massey College University of Toronto 4 Devonshire Place Toronto ON M6R 1R1 Canada phone:1 416 946 3288/7 E-mail: [email protected]
Eberhard Ritz Nierenzentrum Bergheimerstr. 56A Heidelberg D-69115 Germany phone: 49 6221 91120 e-mail: [email protected]
William Couser University of Washington Division of Nephrology Box 356521 Seattle, WA 8195 USA phone: 1 106 543 3792Z e-mail: [email protected]