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After a democratic election, we are pleased to release the list of elected Officers and the list of elected members for the WSO Board of Directors 2008-2012. The number of voting members was high: 377 individual members and 21 society members voted.
Thank you to all who voted and congratulations to all elected Officers and Board members!
WSO Officers
President |
Bo Norrving |
Immediate Past-President |
Geoffrey A. Donnan |
Vice-President |
Vladimir Hachinski |
Vice-President
(from Stroke support org.) |
Natan Bornstein |
Treasurer |
Michael Brainin |
Secretary |
Ka Sing Lawrence Wong |
Members at large (2 seats) |
Marc Fisher
Yukito Shinohara |
WSO Board of Directors
The 20 elected individual members are:
Zone 1 - Asia 1 (China, Hong Kong) |
Ming Liu |
China |
Yongjun Wang |
China |
Ka Sing Lawrence Wong |
Hong Kong S.A.R. |
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Zone 2 - Asia 2 (Japan, Korea, Taiwan) |
Masayasu Matsumoto |
Japan |
Akira Ogawa |
Japan |
Wen Jang Wong |
Taiwan |
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Zone 3 - South East Asia (Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam…) |
Christopher PLH Chen |
Singapore |
Jeyaraj Pandian |
India |
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Zone 4 - Oceania: Australia, New Zealand, Philippines, Melanesia (including Fiji), Polynesia… |
Stephen M. Davis |
Australia |
Geoffrey A. Donnan |
Australia |
Graeme J. Hankey |
Australia |
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Zone 5 - North America |
Antonio Culebras |
USA |
Marc Fisher |
USA |
Vladimir Hachinski |
Canada |
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Zone 7 - North Europe (Scandinavia, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, UK, Ireland…) |
Markku Kaste |
Finland |
Bo Norrving |
Sweden |
Peter Sandercock |
Uk |
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Zone 8 - Central Europe (Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Switzerland, Ukraine…) |
Michael Brainin |
Austria |
Werner Hacke |
Germany |
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Zone 9 - South Europe (Albania, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Croatia, France, FYROM, Greece, Italy, Malta, Portugal, Serbia, Slovenia, Spain, Israel…) |
Jean-Louis Mas |
France |
Representatives of the 2 regions with no elected members were invited to join the Board as non-voting guest members:
- Zone 6-Central/South America: Sheila Cristina Ouriques Martins, Brazil
- Zone 10-Africa/Middle East/Arabia: Waleed Khoja, Saudi Arabia
The 10 elected members representing Scientific societies are:
Member |
Society represented |
Anna Czlonkowska |
Central and Eastern European Stroke Society |
Martin Grond |
German Stroke Society |
Padma Sriyani Gunaratne |
Sri Lanka Stroke society |
Nabil Kitchener |
Egyptian Cerebro-Cardio-Vascular Association |
Giovanni Regesta |
Mediterranean Stroke Society |
Wendy Segrest |
American Stroke Association (ASA) |
Yukito Shinohara |
Japanese stroke society |
Veronika Skvortsova |
National Stroke Association of Russian Federation |
Philip A. Teal |
Canadian Stroke Consortium |
Mohammad Wasay |
Pakistan Stroke Society |
The 10 elected members representing Stroke support societies are:
| Member |
Society represented |
Jon Barrick |
The Stroke Association, UK |
Natan Bornstein |
Neeman Association for Stroke Survivors, Israel |
| Antoine Hakim |
Canadian Stroke Network |
Erin Lalor |
National Stroke Foundation, Australia |
| Sandra Levy |
Stroke Alliance For Europe |
M.M. Mehndiratta |
Indian Stroke Association |
Kazuo Minematsu |
Japan Stroke Association (JSA) |
Juhani Sivenius |
Finnish Stroke and Dysphasia Association |
Ruth Bonita |
Stroke Foundation New Zealand Inc |
To be confirmed |
To be confirmed (Southern African Stroke Foundation) |
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