Asian Society for Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery

The following officers were elected at the 16th Annual Meeting of the Asian Society for Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery in Singapore 13 - 16 March 2008.

President of the Society
Akira Furuse (Tokyo)

President of the Congress
Tarng Jenn Yu (Taipei)

President-elect of the Congress
Arkalgud Sampath Kumar (New Delhi)

Immediate Past President of the Congress
Chuen Neng Lee (Singapore)

Secretary General
Shinichi Takamoto (Tokyo)

Assistant Secretary General
Shunji Sano (Okayama)

Treasurer
Yuichi Ueda (Aich)

Councilors

Qing-Yu Wu (Beijing)
Bum-Koo Cho (Seoul)
Yong-Jin Kim (Seoul)
Yasuyuki Hosoda (Tokyo)
Prinya Sakiyalak (Bangkok)
David Lik-Ching Cheung (Hong Kong)
Mohamed Azhari Yakub (Kuala Lumpur)
Omer Isik (Istanbul)
Masashi Komeda (Kyoto)
Teruhisa Kazui (Hokkaido)
Tarmizi Hakim (Jakarta)

The 17th Annual Meeting of the Asian Society for Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery will be 5-8 March 2009 in Taipei.