Board Members
IFAO Board Members 2016
Years of Service as Board Member in Parentheses (Maximum)
Terms Begin January 1
*Voting Members
Officers
Chairman 2018-2019, Vice-Chairman 2016-2017: Prof. Toru Masuzawa, PhD (2014 – 2019). Ibaraki University, Ibaraki, Japan.
Vice-Chairman: Open
Secretary 2008-2011, 2016-2019: Stephen R. Ash, MD, FACP Indiana University Health Arnett and HemoCleanse Technologies LLC, Lafayette, Indiana, USA. sash@hemocleanse.com.
Treasurer 2016-2019: Karen Burke. Executive Director, ASAIO, Boca Raton, Florida.
JSAO Board Members
* Prof. Koichi Toda, MD, PhD (2016 – 2021). Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan. (Also Congress Chairperson for JSAO conference of JSAO-IFAO 2019).
* Prof. Toru Masuzawa, PhD (2014-2019). Ibaraki University, Ibaraki, Japan.
* Prof. Kenichi Matsuda, M.D., Ph.D. , M.Eng. (2016 – 2021). University of Yamanashi School of Medicine, Yamanashi, Japan.
ESAO Board Members
*Prof. Heinrich Schima, PhD (2016-2021). Medical University Vienna, Austria.
*Prof. Thomas Groth, MD (2017-2022), Martin-Luther-University, Halle, Germany.
*Prof. Bart Meyns, MD Gasthuisberg Univ. Hospital, Leuven, Belgium.
ASAIO Board Members
* Prof. William Fissell, MD (2016-2021). Vanderbilt University, Nashville, USA
* Prof. Peter Wearden, MD (2016-2021). Nemours Children’s Hosp, Orlando USA
* Prof. Mark Slaughter, MD (2016-2021). University of Louisville, USA
Congress Chairpersons (non-voting)
- Yoshiki Sawa, MD, PhD. Chairman, 2019 JSAO-IFAO in Osaka, Japan. Osaka University, Osaka, Japan.
Editor of Artificial Organs, the official publication of IFAO (non-voting)
- Paul Malchesky, PhD, Cleveland, Ohio