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  

Jithma Abeykoon
Mayo Clinic - Rochester, MN USA
Term of Office: 2024 - 2026

Shweta Bansal
Sir HNRFH  - Mumbai, India
Term of Office: 2024 - 2026 

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: 2024 - 2026

Leonie Naeije
Princess Maxima Centre - Utrecht, Netherlands
Term of Office: 2024 - 2026

Francesco Pegoraro
Meyer Children's Hospital IRCCS - Florence, Italy
Term of Office: 2024 - 2026

Aishwaryu Ravindran
University of Alabama, Birmingham - Birmingham, AL USA
Term of Office: 2024 - 2026

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

Updated February 2025

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:

Benjamin Durham - Chair
Rutgers Cancer Institute - New Brunswick, NJ USA
Term of Office: 2023 - 2025

Randy Cron
University of Alabama, Birmingham - Birmingham, AL USA
Term of Office: 2024 - 2026 

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

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

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

Egle Kvedaraite
Karolinska Institutet - Stockholm, Sweden
Term of Office: 2024 - 2026

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

Joe Rocco
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases - Bethesda, MD USA
Term of Office: 2024 - 2026