Committees

 

Education Committee

The Education Committee is responsible for reviewing abstracts and selecting those to be presented Annual Meetings, monitor the Constitution and By-Laws for needed amendments as circumstances dictate, being available to the Board for drafting of changes to the By-Law the Board deems advisable, and presenting the Board with an annual assessment of the Constitution and By-Laws. The current members are:

Diego Rosso, Chair
Hospital Garrahan - Buenos Aires, Argentina
Term of Office: 2011 - 2013

Oussama Abla
Hospital for Sick Children - Toronto, ON Canada
Term of Office: 2012 - 2014

Riccardo Haupt
Gaslini Children's Hospital - Genova, Italy
Term of Office: 2011 - 2013

AnnaCarin Horne
Astrid Lindgren Children's Hospital - Stockholm, Sweden
Term of Office: 2011 - 2013

Rima Jubran
Children's Hospital of Los Angeles - Los Angeles, California, USA
Term of Office: 2011 - 2013

Rebecca Marsh
Cincinnatti Children's Hospital - Cincinnatti, Ohio, USA
Term of Office: 2011 - 2013

Kimo Stine
Arkansas Children's Hospital - Little Rock, Arkansas, USA
Term of Office: 2012 - 2014

 

Scientific Committee

The Scientific Committee is responsible for review proposals for research and related activities according to guidelines developed by the Board and making recommendations to the Board, and present the Board with annual reports and plans concerning the Society’s research activities. This Committee also reviews the applications submitted through the Histiocytosis Association's annual research funding program. The current members are:

Carl Allen, Chair
Texas Children's Hospital Clinical Care Center - Houston, Texas, USA
Term of Office: 2011 - 2013

Itziar Astigarraga
Hospital de Cruces - Baracaldo, Spain
Term of Office: 2011 - 2013

Yenan Bryceson
Karolinska Institutet - Stockholm, Sweden
Term of Office: 2011 - 2013

Stephan Ehl
CCI at University Medical Centre - Freiburg, Germany
Term of Office: 2012 - 2014

Akira Morimoto
Jichi Medical University - Shimotsuke, Japan
Term of Office: 2011 - 2013

Kim Nichols
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Term of Office: 2012 - 2014

Johannes Visser
University Hospital of Leicester - Leicester, UK
Term of Office: 2011 - 2013