Committees Committees
Members of the Nominating Committee are expected to hold appropriate consultations with the nephrological community within their region to generate names to be considered as candidates for the Council and Executive Committee. Candidates shall be selected as individuals on the basis of their contributions to the progress of nephrology. Names and curricula vitae of candidates can be submitted by the members of the Nominating Committee to its Chairman who shall distribute the complete material to all Committee members.
The Committee will meet at the 1997 ASN Meeting in San Antonio (Nov 2-5/97); at the ASN meeting in Philadelphia (Oct 25-28/98) and then at the beginning of the ISN Congress in Buenos Aires (May 2-6/99).
For proposal of candidates please contact the Committee member in your region.
NORTH AMERICA
Dr. John H. Dirks, Chair (Canada) Fax: 416 946 3302
LATIN AMERICA
Dr. Roberto Zatz (Brazil) Fax: 55 11 883 1693
EUROPE
Dr. Tilman Drueke (France) Fax: 33 1 44 495450
ASIA AND PACIFIC
Dr. Masashi Imai (Japan) Fax: 81 285 44 5541
AFRICA
Dr. Sarala Naicker (South Africa) Fax: 27 31 375 755
The ISN Congress Program Committee is the official liason between the ISN and the local Organizing Committee of the forthcoming Congress for the preparation of the scientific program. The Committee encourages suggestions from Fellows and Affiliated Societies concerning format and content of the scientific program of the Congress. The final scientific program of the forthcoming Congress, which shall also reflect the input of the local Organizing and Program Committees, shall be approved by the ISN Congress Program Committee and must conform to the principles established by the ISN.
Chairman ISN Committee:
Eberhard Ritz
Nierenzentrum
Bergheimerstr. 56 A
Heidelberg D-69115
Germany
fax: 49 6221 162 476
Vice-chair:
Steven Hebert
Vanderbilt University
Department of Medicine
Division of Nephrology
C-3119 Medical Center North
Nashville, Tennessee 37232-2372
USA
fax: 1 615 343 2675
Members:
Anita C. Aperia (SWEDEN)
Elvira Arrizurieta (ARGENTINA)
William E. Mitch (USA)
G. Remuzzi (ITALY)
Hideto Sakai (JAPAN)
D.O. Schlondorff (GERMANY)
Barbara Ballermann (USA)
Delegates from the Latin American Society of Nephrology and Hypertension:
Jaime Herrera-Acosta (MEXICO)
Manuel Martinez-Maldonado (USA)
Bernardo Rodriguez-Iturbe (VENEZUELA)
Gerhard Malnic (BRAZIL)
Julio Benabe (PUERTO RICO)
Francisco Monteon (USA)
Ezequial Bellorin Font (VENEZUELA)
Sergio Mezzano (CHILE)
Mario Arbelaez (COLOMBIA)
Elías David Neto (BRAZIL)
Andres Valdivieso (CHILE)
Roberto Zatz (BRAZIL)
Delegates from the Argentine Society of Nephrology:
Roberto Barone
Maria del Rosario Brunet
Ana Maria Cusumano
Leon Ferder
Jorge Ferraris
Fernando Ibarra
Armando Negri
Alfredo Zucchini