WAME Board of Directors and Committees

Executive Board:

President: Rakesh Aggarwal (July 2022-June 2024) Rakesh Aggarwal (India) 
Past President: Rob Siebers (July 2022-June 2024) Rob Siebers (New Zealand)
Vice President: Chris Zielinski (July 2022-June 2024) Chris Zielinski (UK) 
Secretary: José Florencio F. Lapeña (July 2020-June 2024) José Florencio F. Lapeña (Philippines) 
Treasurer: Markus K Heinemann (July 2020-June 2024) Markus K Heinemann (Germany)

Directors:

  • Murad Alam (January 2022 - December 2024)
  • Leslie Citrome (January 2022 - December 2024)
  • Edsel Ing (January 2022 - December 2024)
  • Sanjay Pai (July 2022-June 2024)
  • Michael L. Voight (January 2022 - December 2024)

Financial Administrator: Murad Alam

Trustees
Margaret Winker (July 2018-June 2024)
Lorraine Ferris (July 2020 - June 2024)

Committees

Education Committee

Chair: Chris Zielinski
Farrokh Habibzadeh
Maria Carmen Ruiz-Alcocer
Rakesh Aggarwal
Seidman Charlotte
Michael Callaham
Lori Ferris
Ana Marusic
Rod Rohrich
Margaret Winker
Peush Sahni
Abimbola Farinde
 

Ethics and Policy Committee

Chair: Lorraine E. Ferris
Vice Chair: Michael Callaham
Rakesh Aggarwal
Virginia Barbour
Christine Laine
Glenn McGee
Faith McLellan
Hooman Momen
Peush Sahni
Margaret Winker
Elizabeth Wager
 

Finance Committee

Chair: Tom Lang
Suzanne Fletcher
Fiona Godlee
Drummond Rennie
 

Membership Committee

Chair: Peush Sahni
Farhad Handjani
Jose Florencio F. Lapeña Jr
Ana Marusic
David Ofori-Adjei
Humberto Reyes
Maria del Carmen Ruiz Alcocer
 

Research Committee

Chair: Ana Marusic
Annette Flanagin
Muza Gondwe
Sabine Kleinert
Drummond Rennie
Mauricio Rocha e Silva
Sara Schroter
James Scott
 

Web Committee

Chair: Rajeev Kumar 
Margaret Winker
Riaz Agha
Iain Chalmers
Tony Delamothe
Gunther Eysenbach
Suzanne Fletcher
Thomas Gerber
SM Kadri
Guillermo J. Padrón
Marcia Ramos-e-Silva
Martin Van Der Weyden
 

WAME eLearning Program International Advisory Group

  • Rakesh Aggarwal (India), Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology
  • María del Carmen Ruíz Alcocer (Mexico), Senior Medical Editor, Intersistemas Editores
  • Farrokh Habibzadeh (Iran), Editor-in-Chief, The International Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine
  • Fatema Jawad (Pakistan), Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Pakistan Medical Association  
  • Jose Florencio Lapeña (Philippines), Editor-in-Chief, Philippine Journal of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery  
  • LIU Wei (China), Senior Science Editor, Chinese Journal of Cancer
  • Ana Marusic (Croatia), Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Global Health
  • Adamson Muula (Malawi), Editor Emeritus, Malawi Medical Journal  
  • Peush Sahni (India), Editor-in-Chief, National Medical Journal of India