Committees Education Committee The Education Commitee 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: Rima Jubran, Chair Children's Hospital of Los Angeles - Los Angeles, California, USA Karin Beutel University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf - Hamburg, Germany Naoko Kinugawa Janssen Pharmaceutical Company - Tokyo, Japan Kenneth McClain Texas Children's Cancer Center & Hematology Service - Houston, Texas, USA AnnaCarin Horne Astrid Lindgren Children's Hospital - Stockholm, Sweden Kimo Stine UAMS/Arkansas Children's Hospital - Little Rock, Arkansas, USA Diego Rosso Hospital Garrahan - Buenos Aires, Argentina 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 of America's annual research funding program.  The current members are: Michael Jordan, Chair Cincinnati Children's Hospital - Cincinnati, Ohio, USA Itziar Astigarraga Hospital de Cruces - Baracaldo, Spain K. Scott Baker Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center- Seattle, Washington, USA Jean Donadieu Hospital Trousseau - Paris, France Riccardo Haupt Gaslini Children's Hospital - Genova, Italy Carl Allen Texas Children's Hospital Clinical Care Center - Houston, Texas, USA Johannes Visser Leicester Children's Hospital - Leicester, United Kingdom