Tokyo, December 28: An Indian doctor in Tokyo has been elected as the president of the World Allergy Organisation (WAO). Ruby Pawankar was elected president at the world allergy congress in Cancun, Mexico. Pawankar will be the first woman president of the World Allergy Organisation and also the first Indian to hold this position.
An expert in the field of allergy and clinical immunology she is a professor at Nippon Medical School in Tokyo and a guest professor at Kyung Hee University in Seoul. “I am much honoured to be elected to the position of president of WAO. The two-year presidential term of mine will start on January 1, 2012,” Pawankar, who was in Delhi for a brief visit, said. Her presidential theme is ‘severe allergies, severe asthma: the unmet global health problem’.
WAO, founded in 1951, is a member of the Council for International Organisations of Medical Science (CIOMS) and has a working relationship with the World Health Organisation. It is an international umbrella organisation whose members consist of 89 regional and national allergology and clinical immunology societies from around the world. Pawankar was the recipient of Pravasi Bharatiya Samman Award in 2010.
An expert in the field of allergy and clinical immunology she is a professor at Nippon Medical School in Tokyo and a guest professor at Kyung Hee University in Seoul. “I am much honoured to be elected to the position of president of WAO. The two-year presidential term of mine will start on January 1, 2012,” Pawankar, who was in Delhi for a brief visit, said. Her presidential theme is ‘severe allergies, severe asthma: the unmet global health problem’.
WAO, founded in 1951, is a member of the Council for International Organisations of Medical Science (CIOMS) and has a working relationship with the World Health Organisation. It is an international umbrella organisation whose members consist of 89 regional and national allergology and clinical immunology societies from around the world. Pawankar was the recipient of Pravasi Bharatiya Samman Award in 2010.