Florence 2009 Committees

Steering Committee

Chairman Luciano Gattinoni (Milan)

A. Raffaele De Gaudio (Florence), Antonino Gullo (Catania), Gabriele Sganga (Rome), Rosalba Tufano (Naples)

Italian Organising Committee

Chairman A.Raffaele De Gaudio (Florence)

Marinella Astuto (Catania), Giorgio Berlot (Trieste), Antonio Braschi (Pavia), Francesco Bruno (Bari), Vincenzo Carpino (Naples), Guglielmo Consales (Prato), Giorgio Conti (Rome), Paolo Fontanari (Florence), Pierpaolo Giomarelli (Siena), Francesco Giunta (Pisa), Nora Marinelli (Perugia), Flavia Petrini (Chieti), Ferdinando Raimondi (Milan), Giuseppe Servillo (Naples), Marco Zanello (Bologna)

International Scientific Committee

Honorary President Max Harry Weil (USA)

Chairman Antonino Gullo (Italy)

Co-Chairs Satish Bhagwanjee (South Africa), Marco Castagneto (Italy)

Maher J. Albahrani (Oman), Massimo Antonelli (Italy), Andrew Argent (South Africa), Antonio Artigas (Spain), José Otavio Costa Auler (Brazil), Dechang Chen (China), Edmond Cohen (USA), Francesco Della Corte (Italy), R. Phillip Dellinger (USA), Demetrios Demetriades (USA), Geoffrey J. Dobb (Australia), Bin Du (China), Andres Esteban (Spain), Eugen Faist (Germany), Tommaso Fiore (Italy), Malcolm Fisher (Australia), Göran Hedenstierna (Sweden), Gaetano Iapichino (Italy), Younsuck Koh (Korea), Martin Langer (Italy), Jean-Roger Le Gall (France), Mitchell M. Levy (USA), Daniel A. Lichtenstein (France), Giuseppe Marraro (Italy), John C. Marshall (USA), Rui Moreno (Portugal), Masaji Nishimura (Japan), Jerry Nolan (UK), Carlo Ori (Italy), Adriana Paolicchi (Italy), Alberto Pasetto (Italy), Michael R. Pinski (USA), Frank Plani (Australia), Roberto Pozzi Mucelli (Italy), Marco V. Ranieri (Italy), Giuseppe Ristagno (USA), Jean-Jacques Rouby (France), James A. Russell (Canada), Juan Sahuquillo (Spain), Letterio Santamaria (Italy), Luciano Silvestri (Italy), Arthur Slutsky (Canada), Charles L. Sprung (Israel), Michael Sugrue (Australia), Jukka Takala (Switzerland), Urban Ungerstedt (Sweden), Hendrick K.F. van Saene (UK), Jean-Louis Vincent (Belgium), Lars Wik (Norway)

Nursing

International Scientific Committee

Chairman Ged Williams (Australia)

Co-ChairNora Marinelli (Italy)

Leanne Aitken (Australia), John W. Albarran (UK), Laura Alberto (Argentina), Anne Alexandrov (USA), Aysel Badir (Turkey), Wilson Cañón Montañez (Colombia), David Chan (Hong Kong), Yann-Fen C. Chao (Taiwan), Martha Curley (USA), Wouter de Graaf (the Netherlands), Gian Domenico Giusti (Italy), Thankam Gomez (India), Rossana Gonzales De la Cruz (Peru), Yuko Ikematsu (Japan), Gerardo Jasso Ortega (Mexico), Halima Karbara (Nigeria), Dong-Oak (Debbie) Kim (Korea), Fabrizio Moggia (Italy), Mavilde L.G. Pedreira (Brazil), Maria Isabelita C. Rogado (Philippines), Shelley Schmollgruber (South Africa), Stefano Sebastiani (Italy) Colleen Shelton (Canada), Gordon Speed (New Zealand), Rósa Thorsteinsdóttir (Iceland) Zuo Xuan-Qin (China)

Pediatric

International Scientific Committee

Chairman Andrew Argent (South Africa)

Paolo Biban (Italy), Denis Devictor (France), Niranjan (Tex) Kissoon (Canada), Giuseppe Marraro (Italy), Jefferson P. Piva (Brazil), Ida Salvo (Italy), Sunit Singhi (India)