Committees

Local Organising Committee

Congress President:	Shigeru Takamoto (ISBT, President)
LOC Chairman:	Hitoshi Ohto (JSTMCT, President)
LOC Vice Chairman:	Hisami Ikeda
Secretary:	Koki Takahashi (JSTMCT, Officer)
Treasurer:	Makoto Handa (JSTMCT, Officer)
Members:	Yasutaka Hoshi (JSTMCT, Officer) Yoshiyuki Kurata Kimitaka Sagawa Masatoshi Kohsaki Shouichi Inaba Kazunori Nakajima Masahiro Satake

Local Scientific Committee

Chairman:	Kenji Tadokoro
Vice Chairman:	Junki Takamatsu (JSTMCT, Past President)
Members:	Hiroo Maeda Kenji Ikebuchi Kiyoshi Hiruma Taira Maekawa Shigeki Miyata Yasuhiko Fujii Hitoshi Okazaki Yoshihiko Tani Kazunari Yamaguchi Hisayo Takano Shuichi Kino Susumu Omokawa Hidefumi Kato Kohji Yamamoto Kazuma Ikeda

International Scientific Committee

Chairman:

Shigeru Takamoto (Japan)

Members:

Jean-Pierre Allain (United Kingdom) James AuBuchon (USA) Yasmin Ayob (Malaysia) Richard Benjamin (USA) Ranjanee M. Bindusara (Sri Lanka) Anneke Brand (The Netherlands) Pia Bruce (Finland) Juergen Bux (Germany) Pat Coghlan (Australia) Diane de Coning (South Africa) Marcela Contreras (United Kingdom) Geoff Daniels (United Kingdom) Francine Decary (Canada) Peter Flanagan (New Zealand) Kyou Sup Han (Korea) Paul Holland (USA) Crystal Hui (Macao, China) Anne Husebeckk (Norway) Norman Kalmin (USA) Cécile Kaplan (France) Harvey Klein (USA) Che Kit Lin (Hong Kong SAR, China) Sujen Lin (Taiwan) Wolfgang Mayr (Austria) Faten Moftah (Egypt) Sandra Nance (USA) Hitoshi Ohto (Japan) Martin Olsson (Sweden) Revi Reddy (South Africa) Pierre Robillard (Canada) Paul Schmidt (USA) Erhard Seifried (Germany) Evgeny Selivanov (Russia) Paul Strengers (The Netherlands) Silvano Wendel (Brazil) Kenji Tadokoro (Japan) Diana Teo (Singapore) Daffydd Thomas (United Kingdom) Nguyen Anh Tri (Vietnam) Lorna Williamson (United Kingdom)

Local Advisory Committee

Yasuo Ikeda Kazuhiko Ito Toru Katayama Yoshihisa Kodera Hidehiko Saito Hirotoshi Shibata Masura Shimizu Takeo Juji Kagemitsu Ninomiya Hiroshi Hara Mine Harada Hideaki Mizoguchi Shinji Yuasa

Co-Organizer

President:	Takayoshi Asai (The Autumn Symposium, JSTMCT)
President:	Tadashi Kamiya (The Society for Japanese Blood Programme)
Chairman:	Akihiro Takeshita (The Transfusion Conference of the University Hospitals)

ISBT Board of Directors (2008-2010)

ISBT Executive Committee

President:	Erhard Seifried (Germany)
President-elect:	Silvano Wendel (Brasil)
Vice-President:	Norman Kalmin (USA) Anne Husebekk (Norway)
Secretary General:	Paul Strengers (The Netherlands)
Treasurer:	Stephen Morgan (United Kingdom)
Past President:	Shigeru Takamoto (Japan)

ISBT Central Office

Executive director:

Judith Chapman (The Netherlands)

Members of the Board representing WHO Regions

Africa:	Ravi Reddy (South Africa)
Northern Americas:	Richard Benjamin (USA)
Southern Americas:	Graciela Gonzáles de Léon (Venezuela)
Eastern Europe:	Evgeny Selivanov (Russia)
Eastern Mediterranean:	Amin Al Amiri (United Arab Emirates)
South East Asia:	Ranjanee M. Bindusara (Sri Lanka)
Western Pacific:	Peter Flanagan (New Zealand) Diana Teo (Singapore)
Western Europe:	Jean Pierre Allain (United Kingdom)

Congress Organisers

c/o Eurocongress International

Eurocongress International,
Jan van Goyenkade 11,
1075 HP Amsterdam,
The Netherlands

Tel.: +31 20 679 3411,
Fax: +31 20 673 7306
E-mail: isbt.nagoya@eurocongress.com 

Official Housing and Travel Agent

(Hotel accommodation, social programme, travel, accompanying persons)

C/o JTB Central Japan Corporation
Corporate Sales Office, Nagoya
1-17-19, Marunouchi, Naka-ku
Nagoya, 460-0002, Japan
Email: convention@jtb.jp