Committees

Congress Management Committee	Scientific Programme Committee
Co-Chairs Runlin Gao (China) Tak-Fu Tse (Hong Kong, China)	Co-chairs    Dayi Hu (China) Dong Zhao (China) Horacio Faella (Argentina) Sidney Smith (United States)
Members Craig Beam (United States) Pekka Puska (Finland) Lyn Roberts (Australia) Sidney Smith (United States) Helen Alderson (Switzerland)	Members Jean-Pierre Bassand (France) Cheung Seung Chiang (Hong Kong, China) Cheun-Den Tseng (Taiwan, China) Edgardo Escobar (Chile) Akira Matsumori (Japan) Shahryar Sheikh (Pakistan)
Representative of Chinese Medical Association Guo-ming Qi  (China)	Ex officio    Tak-Fu Tse (Hong Kong, China) Runlin Gao (China)
WHF Staff Marilyn Hunn (United States)	WHF Staff    Kathryn Taubert (Switzerland) Marilyn Hunn (United States) Susan Davenport (Switzerland)
Scientific Programme Advisors
Luis Alday (Argentina) Jeroen Bax (Netherlands) Masao Endoh (Japan) Dong-Feng Gu (China) Yonghao Gui (China) Zuoxiang He (China) Nancy Houston-Miller (United States) Dejia Huang (China) Rutai Hui (China) Spencer King (United States) Issei Komuro (Japan) Christopher Levi (Australia) Lisheng Liu (China) Peter Liu (Canada) Hong Lu (China)	Chang Sheng Ma (China) George Mensah (United States) Satoshi Ogawa (Japan) Lionel Opie (South Africa) Weifeng Shen (China) Andrew Tonkin (Australia) Alec Vahanian (France) Yongjun Wang (China) Yang-Feng Wu (China) Cheuk-Man Yu (Hong Kong, China) Salim Yusuf (Canada) Zhi-Jie Zheng (United States) Junren Zhu (China) Yi Zhun Zhu (China)
Sponsorship Working Group Tak-Fu Tse (Hong Kong, China) Dayi Hu (China) Horacio Faella (Argentina) Helen Alderson (Switzerland) Alan Cole (Switzerland) Graham Minton (Switzerland)