WoCoVA Committees
WoCoVA has a relatively simple organizational structure, which improves decision-making and thus avoids costs. In summary: the Global Committee is focused on the ongoing promotion of WoCoVA, whereas the Scientific Committee and Organizing Committee are clearly focused on organizing the next biennial congress.
Scientific Committee
The Scientific Committee is responsible for the scientific program of the WoCoVA congresses and represent experts on vascular access.
Italy

Mauro Pittiruti
USA

Paul Blackburn
The Netherlands

Ton van Boxtel
Spain

Gloria Ortiz Miluy
USA

Josie Stone
USA

Ken Symington

Marguerite Stas
Global Committee
The Global Committee is a permanent and rapidly growing group of representatives from countries all over the world. Its members are the main source of input for WoCoVA. The main responsibilities of the Global Committee members are to:
- provide evidence of promoting WoCoVA to other professional groups though advertising in local journals, lecturing at professional meetings and other gatherings;
- inform WoCoVA on how to connect with other local vascular access related organizations, or how to improve communication with such organizations;
- to encourage clinicians to attend WoCoVA’s congresses or or by promoting the Group rate with supporting evidence;
- to link with industry partners who may be interested to exhibit at the congress;
- to assist with the list of speakers and references;
- to sponsor attendees to the congress
- to promote WoCoVA on both private and professional social media platforms, such as forums, Facebook and Twitter, but also on professional websites or company advertisements;
- to engage with past WoCoVA attendees who may be interested to document their experiences for WoCoVA’s web site;
- and to create and locally distribute posters which help to promote WoCoVA.
Josie Stone (US) is chairperson of the Global Committee
Argentina

Maria Veronica Mauri
Australia

Evan Alexandrou
Austria

Christian Breschan
Belgium

Martine Jérôme
Brazil

Claudia Luz
Canada

Cherie Pinkerton
Canada

Tami Jemson
Canada

Sharon Armes
China

张 京慧 Jinghui Zhang
China

Sun Hong
Czech Republic

Jiri Charvat
Denmark

Kasper Jepsen
France

Eric Desruennes
France

Christian Dupont
Germany

Ulf Teichgräber
Greece

Evangelos Konstantinou
Lebanon

Jocelyne Abou Jaoude
Hongkong

Peter Tang
Hungary

Agi Szekacs
India

Anil Bhambhani
Iran

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Ireland

Peter Carr
Italy

Mauro Pittiruti
New Zealand

Lynette Lennox
Phillipines

Susan Labuntog
Portugal

Rita Barroca
South Korea

Jang Yong Kim
Spain

Paloma Ruiz Hernández
Spain

Maria Antonia Cubero Pérez
Sweden

Karin Johansson
Switzerland

Wojciech Staszewicz
The Netherlands

Ton van Boxtel
United Kingdom

Carmel Streater
United Kingdom

Jackie Nicholson
USA

Paul Blackburn
USA
