Skip to content

President’s Letter (November 19, 2019)

Catania, Italy (November 19, 2019)
Dr. Filippo Drago
Dear Colleagues, After a long and careful selection procedure, the AOPT Board of Directors has decided about the venue of the 2021 international Congress. It is my pleasure to announce that the next AOPT Congress will be held in Shenyang, China, on March 11-14 2021. We believe that our meeting in Shenyang – the gateway to Northeast China – will be an exciting venture for AOPT members and industrial partners. I want to thank the fruitful participation in the bid procedure of the colleagues proposing other locations, i.e. Hong Kong, Dublin and Miami. After some technical problems have been solved, the AOPT website is again accessible. I want to apologize for any inconvenience the suspended availability of the website may have caused to you. Last but not least, we are working to set up a themed US-based AOPT meeting to be held in the second half of 2020. This will allow us to meet as a scientific association every year instead of every other year. A warm hug.

Filippo Drago, M.D.,Ph.D.
PRESIDENT
University of Catania Medical School
f.drago@unict.it

Ashwat Jayagopal, Ph.D.
VICEPRESIDENT/PRESIDENT ELECT
Vanderbilt University Medical Center
ash.jayagopal@gmail.com

Thomas Yorio, Ph.D.
IMMEDIATE-PAST-PRESIDENT
University of North TX Health Science Center
Thomas.yorio@unthsc.edu

Shusheng Wang
TREASURER
swang1@tulane.edu

Cheryl L. Rowe-Rendleman, Ph.D.
SECRETARY
Omar Consulting Group, LLC
Crrendleman@omarconsultants.com

Malinda Fitzgerald
BOARD ADVISOR
drmecfitz@gmail.com

Dan Stamer
JOURNAL EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
Duke University
dan.stamer@duke.edu

TRUSTEES

Sanjoy Bhattacharya
University of Miami Miller School of Medicine
sbhattacharya@med.miami.edu

Claudio Bucolo, Ph.D.
University of Catania, Italy
Claudio.bucolo@unict.it

Dorette Ellis
University of North TX Health Science Center
dorette.ellis@unthsc.edu

Shahid Husain
Medical University of South Carolina
husain@musc.edu

Goldis Malek
Duke University
gmalek@duke.edu

Najam Sharif
Santen Inc., USA
najam.sharif@santen.com

Chi-Ho To
sochto@polyu.edu.hk

Heping Xu
heping.xu@qub.ac.uk