ISH STRUCTURE


Our Officers & Committees

2024-2026 Presidency


ISH Council

The Council is responsible for furthering the aspirations and activities of the ISH, ensuring its efficient running and controlling its property and funds. ISH Council members are also Trustees of the Charity.

The Executive of the Council (Executive Committee) takes a critical role in helping the Council set policies and goals for the Society, and is delegated to act for the Council in the day-to-day activities of the Society, such as providing direction to the ISH Secretariat, of making the necessary arrangements for the next ISH Biennial Scientific and General Meetings and other scientific activities, of overseeing the work of all committees and working parties, and for giving final consideration for all nominations for membership.

Executive Committee and Council Members

George Stergiou

ISH President / Greece


Hiroshi Itoh

Vice President / Japan


Kazuomi Kario

Secretary / Japan


Cesar Romero

Treasurer / USA


Erika Jones

Officer-at-Large / South Africa


Bryan Williams

Immediate Past President / UK


Other Council Members

Dagnovar Aristizabal

Colombia


Hind Beheiry

Sudan


Myeong-Chan Cho

South Korea


Débora Colombari

Brazil


Tazeen Jafar

Singapore


Yan Li

China


Ulrike (Muscha) Steckelings

Denmark / Germany



Committees

Working groups and Taskforces


Research and Education Committee

Tazeen Jafar

Chair / Singapore


Jafar Alsaid

Deputy Chair / USA - Iraq


Augustine Odili

Deputy Chair / Nigeria


Hiroshi Itoh

ISH Vice President / Japan


Erika Jones

ISH Officer at Large / South Africa


Nadia Khan

Canada


George Stergiou

ISH President / Greece



Membership Committee

Débora Colombari

Chair / Brazil


Priscilla Prestes

Deputy Chair / Australia


Maha Eissa

Sudan


Rana El-Bikai

Lebanon


Abhinav Gupta

India


Ruan Kruger

South Africa


Beth Muxfeldt

Brazil


Keneilwe Nkgola Mmopi

Botswana


Keisuke Shinohara

Japan


Praveen Veerabhadrappa

USA



Mentorship and Training Committee

Lebo Gafane-Matemane

Chair, South Africa


Francine Marques

Past Chair / Australia


Rahul Chanchlani

Canada


Hooi Chin Beh

Malaysia


Evany Dinakis

Australia


Henry Iheonye

Nigeria


Rodrigo Maranon

Argentina


Pablo Nakagawa

USA


Samuel Olaniyi

Nigeria


Kaylee Slater

Australia



New Investigator Committee

Dean Picone

Chair / Australia


Chloé Landry

Deputy Chair / Canada


Arinola Akinnibosun

Australia


YiBang Cheng

China


Waleed Mohammed Alhaj Jebreel

Sudan


Neusa Jessen

Mozambique


Rija Khalid

Pakistán


Konstantinos Kyriakoulis

Greece


Jesus Melgarejo

USA


Oziegbe Oghide

Nigeria



Women in Hypertension Research Committee

Yan Li

Chair / China


Niamh Chapman

Immediate Past Chair / Australia


Buna Bhandari

USA / Nepal


Lizzy Brewster

The Netherlands


Jennifer Cluett

USA


Carolina De Ciuceis

Italy


Mega Febrianora

Indonesia


Zitandile Hlombekazi Mfono

South Africa


Mabel Margoth Reyes Pulido

Colombia


Ariadni Menti

Greece


Joanne O’Donnell

Australia


Christian Razo

USA


Ching Siew Mooi

Malaysia


Naoko Tomitani

Japan


Pensée Wu

UK


Luna Xu

Australia


Jing Yu

China



ISH Capacity Building Network

Dean Picone

Chair ISH New Investigator Committee / Australia


Yan Li

Chair ISH Women in Hypertension Research Committee / China


Lebo Gafane-Matemane

Chair ISH Mentorship and Training Committee / South Africa


Niamh Chapman

Immediate Past Chair ISH Women in Hypertension Research Committee / Australia



ISH Regional Advisory Groups

RAG Coordination

Ulrike (Muscha) Steckelings

RAGs Coordinator / Denmark - Germany


Hind Beheiry

ISH Council Member / Sudan


Cesar Romero

ISH Treasurer / USA


George Stergiou

ISH President / Greece



Africa

Regional Advisory Group (RAG)

Alfred Dokku

Chair / Ghana


Hind Beheiry

ISH Council Representative / Sudan


Abiodun Adeseye Akintunde

Nigeria


Tangeni Auala

Namibia


Anastase Dzudie

Cameroon


Ruan Kruger

South Africa


Reuben Mutagaywa

Tanzania


Elvine Pami Nguelefack-Mbuyo

Cameroon


Augustine Odili

Immediate Past Chair / Nigeria


James Russell

Sierra Leone


Countries included:Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cabo Verde, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Congo, Cote d’Ivoire, Democratic Republic of Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sao Tome and Principe, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, South Sudan, Sudan, Togo, Uganda, United Republic of Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe


Americas

Regional Advisory Group (RAG)

Dagnovar Aristizabal

Chair / ISH Council Representative / Colombia


Mayra Ayala

Bolivia


Jean Pierre Carrion

Peru


Eduardo Colombari

Brazil


Javier Moreno

Colombia


Silvia Palomo

Mexico


Nicolás Renna

Argentina


Countries included:Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominica, Dominical Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Grenada, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, USA, Uruguay, Venezuela


Asia Pacific (APAC)

Regional Advisory Group (RAG)

Yook-Chin Chia

Chair / Malaysia


Hiroshi Itoh

ISH Council Representative / Japan


Hao-Min Cheng

Taiwan


Shariful Islam

Australia


Praew Kotruchin

Thailand


Hae-Young Lee

South Korea


Akira Nishiyama

Japan


Debbie Ona

Philippines


Ekamol Tantisattamo

USA / Thailand


Jimmy Teo

Singapore


Yuda Turana

Indonesia


Huynh Van Minh

Vietnam


Yuqing Zhang

China


Countries included:Australia, Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, China, Cook Islands, Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (North Korea), East Timor, Fiji, Indonesia, Japan, Kiribati, Laos, Malaysia, Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Mongolia, Myanmar, Nauru, Niue, New Zealand, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Republic of Korea (South Korea), Samoa, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand, Taiwan, Vietnam


Europe

Regional Advisory Group (RAG)

Maria Dorobantu

Chair / Romania


Ulrike (Muscha) Steckelings

ISH Council Representative / Denmark / Germany


Ana Jelaković

Croatia


Anastasios Kollias

Greece


Tatiana Kuznetsova

Belgium


Teemu Niiranen

Finland


Arman Postadzhiyan

Bulgaria


Sébastien Rubin

France


Tomasz Zdrojewski

Poland


Countries included:Albania, Andorra, Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Monaco, Montenegro, Netherlands, North Macedonia, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Republic of Moldova, Romania, Russian Federation, San Merino, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine, UK


Middle East and North Africa (MENA)

Regional Advisory Group (RAG)

Abdulla Shehab

Chair / UAE


Cesar Romero

ISH Council Representative / USA


Mousa Akbar

Kuwait


Maram AlSharbiti

Bahrain


Bader Almustafa

Saudi Arabia


Nidal Asaad

Qatar


Yassin Bani Marjeh

Syria


Hiba Barghouthi

Jordan


Salem Ben Abdesselem

Tunisia


Hawa Derbi

Libya


Tarek El Zawawy

Egypt


Rachida Habbal

Morocco


Ghazi Farhan Haji

Iraq


Robert Najem

Lebanon


Kadhim Sulaiman

Oman


Countries included:Algeria, Bahrain, Djibouti, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Syrian Arab Republic, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, Yemen


South and Central Asia (SACA)

Regional Advisory Group (RAG)

Azra Mahmud

Chair / Pakistan


Tazeen Jafar

ISH Council Representative / Singapore


Shubharthi Kar

Bangladesh


Varun Kumar Bandi

India


Thushara Matthias

Sri Lanka


Mansi Patil

India


Saulat Siddique

Pakistan



Muhammad Haroon Stanikzai

Afghanistan



Sangay Wangchuk

Bhutan


Countries included:Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan


Taskforces and Special Projects

Focus Group

Blood Pressure Measurement

Kazuomi Kario

Chair / Japan


George Stergiou

ISH President / Greece



ISH Academy

Erika Jones

Chair / South Africa


Francine Marques

Deputy Chair / Australia


Bryan Williams

UK


Jafar Alsaid

USA / Iraq


Yook-Chin Chia

Malaysia


Vikas Kapil

UK


Nadia Khan

Canada


Tiny Masupe

Botswana


Daniel Piskorz

Argentina


Nicolás Renna

Argentina


George Stergiou

ISH President / Greece



Patient Guidelines


Bryan Williams

Chair / UK



Niamh Chapman

Project Manager / Australia



Fadi Charchar

Australia



Nadia Khan

Canada


Maciej Tomaszewski

UK



George Stergiou

ISH President / Greece



ESH-ISH Journal of Hypertension Committee

Maciej Tomaszewski

Co-Chair - ISH / UK


George Stergiou

ISH President / Greece


Bryan Williams

ISH Immediate Past President / UK


Erika Jones

ISH Officer-at-Large / South Africa


Kazuomi Kario

ISH Secretary / Japan


Reinhold Kreutz

Co-Chair - ESH / Germany


Thomas Weber

ESH President / Austria


Christian Delles

ESH Secretary / UK


Alexandre Persu

ESH Working Group Coordinator / Belgium


Giuseppe Mancia

Chair of ESH Educational Committee / Italy



Awards Committee

Kazuomi Kario

Chair / Japan


Dagnovar Aristizabal

Colombia


Hind Beheiry

Sudan


Myeong-Chan Cho

South Korea


Débora Colombari

Brazil


Hiroshi Itoh

Japan


Tazeen Jafar

Singapore


Erika Jones

Officer-at-Large / South Africa


Yan Li

China


Cesar Romero

Treasurer / USA


Ulrike (Muscha) Steckelings

Denmark / Germany


Bryan Williams

UK


George Stergiou

ISH President / Greece



Corporate Liaison Committee

Cesar Romero

Chair / USA


Dagnovar Aristizabal

Colombia


Hind Beheiry

Sudan


Myeong-Chan Cho

South Korea


Débora Colombari

Brazil


Yan Li

China


Hiroshi Itoh

Japan


Tazeen Jafar

Singapore


Erika Jones

Officer-at-Large / South Africa


Kazuomi Kario

Secretary / Japan


Ulrike (Muscha) Steckelings

Denmark / Germany


Bryan Williams

UK


George Stergiou

ISH President / Greece



Finance Committee

Cesar Romero

Chair / USA


Fadi Charchar

Immediate Past Treasurer / Australia


George Stergiou

ISH President / Greece



Governance Committee


Dagnovar Aristizabal

Chair / Colombia



Débora Colombari

Brazil



Hiroshi Itoh

Japan



Cesar Romero

USA