committees

Conference Chairman

Koji Abe (Okayama University)

Conference Co-chairman

Hidehiro Iida (National Cardiovascular Center)

Program Committee

Costantino Iadecola (NY), Chair
Koji Abe (Okayama)
Robert M.Bryan (Houston)
Ulrich Dirnagl (Berlin)
Patricia Hurn (Portland)
Fahmeed Hyder (New Haven)
Hidehiro Iida (Osaka)
Nobutaka Kawahara (Tokyo)
Adriaan Lammertsma (Amsterdam)
James McCulloch (Edinburgh), President of the Society

Educational Course Committee

Edith Hamel (Montreal), Chair
Fahmeed Hyder (New Haven)
Iwao Kanno (Akita/Chiba)
Dale A. Pelligrino (Chicago)

Local Organizers
Yasuo Katayama (Tokyo), Secretary general Tatsushi Kamiya (Okayama), Secretary chief Nobuo Araki (Saitama) Tsutomu Araki (Tokushima) Isao Date (Okayama) Yasuhisa Fujibayashi (Fukui) Hiroshi Fukuda (Sendai) Hidenao Fukuyama (Kyoto) Jun Hatazawa (Osaka) Takuya Hayashi (Osaka) Takeshi Hayashi (Okayama) Hironaka Igarashi (Niigata) Tomoaki Ikeda (Osaka) Hiroshi Ito (Chiba) Kengo Ito (Nagoya) Masatoshi Itoh (Sendai) Hiroyuki Kato (Ohtawara) Ken-ichiro Katsura (Tokyo) Yuichi Kimura (Tokyo)		Hiroyuki Kinouchi (Kofu) Kazuo Kitagawa (Osaka) Yasuo Kuwabara (Fukuoka) Yasuhiro Magata (Hamamatsu) Toshimitsu Momose (Tokyo) Joji Nakagawara (Sapporo) Nobuhito Saito (Tokyo) Hideo Saji (Kyoto) Masahiro Sakurai (Sendai) Michio Senda (Kobe) Mikio Shoji (Hirosaki) Tetsuya Suhara (Chiba) Norihiro Suzuki (Tokyo) Norio Tanahashi (Saitama) Hideo Tsukada (Hamamatsu) Kazuo Yamada (Nagoya) Kazuhiko Yanai (Sendai) Hiroshi Watabe (Osaka) Toshiki Yoshimine (Osaka)

Local Secretaries (Okayama)
Fumiko Nakano Miyuki Inoue Yu Sugimoto	Satsuki Kametaka Kentaro Deguchi Shoko Nagotani	Toru Yamashita Atsushi Tsuchiya

This symposium is partly supported by Japan Society for the Promotion of Science and
Commemorative Organization for the Japan World Exposition ' 70 (http://www.expo70.or.jp/).