EDUCATION COMMITTEE

The Education Committee is responsible for reviewing abstracts and selecting those to be presented at Annual Meetings, monitoring the Constitution and Bylaws for needed amendments as circumstances dictate, and together with the Board, oversees the content of the website, particularly regarding educational material. The current members are:

Vassilios Papadakis - Chair
Aghia Sofia Children's Hospital - Athens, Greece
Term of Office: 2023 - 2025  

Deepak Chellapandian
Johns Hopkins All Children's Hospital - St. Petersburg, FL USA
Term of Office: 2022 - 2024

Gaurav Goyal
University of Alabama at Birmingham  - Birmingham, AL USA
Term of Office: 2022 - 2024 

Melissa Hines
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital - Memphis, TN USA
Term of Office: 2023 - 2025 

Rafal Machowicz
Medical University of Warsaw - Warsaw, Poland
Term of Office: 2023 - 2025

Lauren Meyer
Seattle Children's Hospital - Seattle, WA USA
Term of Office: 2023 - 2025

Akira Morimoto
Jichi Medical University - Shimotsuke, Japan
Term of Office: 2022 - 2024

Julie Talano
Medical College of Wisconsin - Milwaukee, WI USA
Term of Office: 2022 - 2024

Tatiana von Bahr Greenwood
Karolinksa Institutet - Stockholm, Sweden
Term of Office: 2022 - 2024

Joanne Yacobovich
Schneider Children's Medical Center of Israel - Petah Tikva, Israel
Term of Office: 2023 - 2025

Updated November 2023

SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE

The Scientific Committee is responsible for reviewing proposals for research and related activities according to guidelines developed by the Board and making recommendations to the Board, and presenting the Board with annual reports and plans concerning the Society’s research activities. This Committee also reviews the applications submitted through the Histiocytosis Association's annual research funding program. The current members are:

Caroline Hutter - Chair
Children's Cancer Research Institute - Vienna, Austria
Term of Office: 2023 - 2025

Scott Canna
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia - Philadelphia, PA USA
Term of Office: 2022 - 2024

Benjamin Durham
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center - New York, NY USA
Term of Office: 2023 - 2025

Jean-Francois Emile
Versailles University, Paris-Saclay University - Paris, France
Term of Office: 2023 - 2025

Ronald Go
Mayo Clinic - Rochester, MN USA
Term of Office: 2023 - 2025

Sebastien Heritier
Asistance Publique - Hopitaux de Paris - Paris, France
Term of Office: 2023 - 2025

Michelle Hermiston
University of California, San Francisco - San Francisco, CA USA
Term of Office: 2023 - 2025 

Ko Kudo
Hirosaki University Hospital - Hirosaki, Japan
Term of Office: 2022 - 2024

Paul Milne
Newcastle University - Newcastle, United Kingdom
Term of Office: 2022 - 2024

Astrid van Halteren
Erasmus Medical Center – Rotterdam, Netherlands 
Term of Office: 2022 - 2024