About WABIP
Board of Regents
A round table group of bronchology and IP experts and leaders from around the world, the Board of Regents (“BOR”) is the principal governing body of the WABIP. Members on the BOR vote on Vice-chair candidates in biennial elections, Bylaws amendments, WCBIP host candidates and other matters central to governing the WABIP.
The BOR is comprised of all members on the Executive Board and a minimum of one representative from every Member Society. Such representatives include (listed alphabetically by last name):
Abdelwahab Korraa, Emadeldin, MDEgyptian Scientific Society of BronchologyEgypt
Aluan Aria, Adid Gamal, MDParaguay Association Bronchoscopy & Interventional Pulmonology GroupParaguay
Bentata, Kada, MDAlgerian Association of Bronchology and Interventional PulmonologyAlgeria
Buero, Agustin, MDGrupo Argentino Broncoscopia IntervencionistaArgentina
Chavez, Christine, MDPhilippine Society for Bronchology and Interventional PulmonologyPhilippines
Chawla, Rakesh, MDIndian Association for BronchologyIndia
Corbetta, Lorenzo, MDSocietà Italiana di Endoscopia ToracicaItaly
Dalar, Levent, MDTurkish Respiratory SocietyTurkey
Darwiche, Kaid, MDDeutsche Gesellschaft fuer Pneumologie, Lungenklinik HemerGermany
Dimitrievska, Deska, MDMacedonian Respiratory SocietyNorth Macedonia
Doğan, Deniz, MDTurkish Thoracic SocietyTurkey
Elhag, Omer, MDSudanese Chest Physicians SocietySudan
Emmanouil, Philip, MDHellenic Thoracic SocietyGreece
E.P. Kops, Stephan, MDNederlandse Vereniging van Artsen voor Longziekten en TuberculoseThe Netherlands
Fortin, Marc, MDCanadian Thoracic SocietyCanada
Garcia-Mantilla, Pedro, MDAsociación Peruana de Broncologia y Neumologia IntervencionistaPeru
Hsia, David, MDAmerican Association of Bronchology and Interventional PulmonologyUSA
Hsu, Anne, MDSingapore Thoracic SocietySingapore
Iyoda, Akira, MDJapan Society for Respiratory EndoscopyJapan
Kennedy, Marcus, MDIrish Thoracic SocietyIreland
Khouchilia, Fatima Zahra, MDMoroccan Association of Interventional Pulmonology (AMPI)Morocco
Kusuma, Ni Nyoman Indirawati, MDPERPARIIndonesia
Las Heras, Marcos, MDAsociación Argentina de BroncoesofagologíaArgentina
Lazo, David, MDChile BronchologyChile
Lee, Sang Haak, MDSouth Korea Bronchology GroupSouth Korea
Maouelainin, Nina, MDWomen in Interventional PulmonologyUSA
Millar, Fraser, MDScotland Bronchology GroupScotland
Murgu, Septimiu, MDAmerican Association for Bronchology and Interventional PulmonologyUSA
Naoki, Katsuhiko, MDJapan Society for Respiratory EndoscopyJapan
Naouel, Chaouch, MDTunisia Group of Bronchoscopy and Interventional PulmonologyTunisia
Nene, Amita, MDIndian Association for BronchologyIndia
Olteanu, Mihai, MDBronchology Section of SRPRomania
Park, Young Sik, MDSouth Korea Bronchology GroupSouth Korea
Pérez Pallarés, Javier, MDAsociación Española de Endoscopia Respiratoria y Neumología IntervencionistaSpain
Popevic, Spasoje, MDRespiratory Society of SerbiaSerbia
Rajapakse, Yamuna, MDSri Lanka College of PulmonologistsSri Lanka
Sanchez Vallejo, Jaime, MDAsociación Colombiana de Broncoscopia y Neumologia IntervencionistaColombia
Sarkar, Nirmal Kanti, MDBangladesh Association for Bronchology and Interventional PulmonologyBangladesh
Shaw, Jane Alexandra, MDSouth African Thoracic SocietySouth Africa
Sh.Mousa, Mohamed Mahdi, MDSomali Association of Chest PhysiciansSomalia
Shibuya, Kiyoshi, MDAsia Pacific Association for Bronchology and Interventional PulmonologyJapan
Sidhu, Calvin, MDThoracic Society of Australia and New ZealandAustralia
Singh, Jaspal, MDSociety for Advanced BronchoscopyUSA
Solis Aramayo, Marco Antonio, MDSociedad Boliviana de NeumologiaBolivia
Sriprasart, Thitiwat, MDThoracic Society of ThailandThailand
Stratakos, Grigoris, MDEuropean Association for Bronchology and Interventional PulmonologyEurope
Tachihara, Motoko, MDJapan Society for Respiratory EndoscopyJapan
Thiam, Khady, MDSenegal Group for Bronchology & Interventional PulmonologySenegal
Tie, Siew Teck, MDMalaysian Association for Bronchology & Interventional PulmonologyMalaysia
Tunde Ojo, Oluwafemi, MDNigerian Thoracic SocietyNigeria
Usuda, Jitsuo, MDJapan Society for Respiratory EndoscopyJapan
van der Heijden, Erik, MDEuropean Association for Bronchology and Interventional PulmonologyNetherlands
Wahju, Aniwidyaningsih, MDPERBRONKIIndonesia
