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, being available to the Board for drafting of changes to the Bylaw the Board deems advisable, and presenting the Board with an annual assessment of the Constitution and Bylaws. The current members are:

Michael Henry - Chair
Phoenix Children's Hospital - Phoenix, AZ USA
Term of Office: 2021 – 2023 

Patrick Campbell
St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital - Memphis, TN USA
Term of Office: 2021 – 2023

Paul Hendrie
Seattle Cancer Care Alliance - Seattle, WA USA
Term of Office: 2020 - 2022

Melissa Hines
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital - Memphis, TN USA
Term of Office: 2021 - 2023 

Vassilios Papadakis
Aghia Sofia Children's Hospital - Athens, Greece
Term of Office: 2021 - 2023 

Elena Sieni
Meyer University Children’s Hospital - Florence, Italy
Term of Office: 2021 - 2023

Julie Talano
Medical College of Wisconsin - Milwaukee, WI USA
Term of Office: 2020 - 2022

Tatiana von Bahr Greenwood
Karolinksa Institutet - Stockholm, Sweden
Term of Office: 2020 - 2022

Updated October 2021

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: 2021 - 2023

Rikhia Chakraborty
Texas Children's Cancer and Hematology Centers - Houston, TX USA
Term of Office: 2020 - 2022

Benjamin Durham
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center - New York, NY USA
Term of Office: 2021 - 2023

Jean-Francois Emile
Versailles University, Paris-Saclay University - Paris, France
Term of Office: 2021 - 2023 

Gaurav Goyal
University of Alabama at Birmingham - Birmingham, AL USA
Term of Office: 2021 - 2023

Michelle Hermiston
University of California, San Francisco - San Francisco, CA USA
Term of Office: 2021 - 2023 

Paul Milne
Newcastle University - Newcastle, United Kingdom
Term of Office: 2020 - 2022

Yongmin Tang
Children's Hospital of Zhejiang University - Hangzhou, China
Term of Office: 2020 - 2022 

Astrid van Halteren
Willem Alexander Children's Hospital / Leiden University Medical Center - Leiden, Netherlands
Term of Office: 2020 - 2022

Birte Wistinghausen
Children's National Hospital - Washington, DC USA
Term of Office: 2021 - 2023