The Local Organizing Committee
Congress President
Professor Detlev Ganten, Chairman of the Board of Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, the largest university medical center in Europe with 15,000 employees, 3,500 beds and an annual budget of 1 billion euros. As a research scientist in the field of hypertension, Professor Ganten elucidated fundamental mechanisms in the development of high blood pressure. His area of research includes the hormonal regulation of blood pressure, especially the renin-angiotensin system and the molecular genetics of cardiovascular diseases. His scientific work includes numerous publications and books. He is Editor of the Journal of Molecular Medicine (JMM) and a member of the advisory council of various other journals.
Congress Secretary
Professor Martin Paul is Dean of the Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin.
Chairman of the Finance & Sponsorship Committee
Professor Karl-Heinz Rahn is Professor Emeritus of the University of Münster Medical School, having been a long-time Chairman of the Department of Medicine at Münster Medical School. Before that, he held several professoral positions in Aachen and Mastricht. He also contributed to many scientific societies, most actively as President of the German Society of Hypertension (1991-1995), as President of the International Society of Hypertension (1998-2000), as President of the German Society of Internal Medicine (1999-2000) and as President of the German Society of Nephrology (2000-2001).
Chairman of the Scientific Program Committee
Professor Thomas Unger holds the Chair of Pharmacology and is Director of the Institute of Pharmacology at the Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin. From 2001 until 2006 he was Director of the Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Campus Mitte of the Charité Berlin. He is also the Director of the Center for Cardiovascular Research (CCR) at the Charité, Berlin and the Chairman of the German Institute for High Blood Pressure Research in Heidelberg. Between 1994 and 2001, he was Director of the Institute of Pharmacology at the University of Kiel, Germany. Professor Unger studied medicine in Germany and the UK, and gained his MD from the University of Heidelberg, Germany. He then carried out postdoctoral research at the Clinical Research Institute of Montreal, Canada, and the Department of Pharmacology in Heidelberg, where he received his PhD in Pharmacology.
| Hypertension Berlin 2008 |
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| Congress President | Detlev Ganten, Berlin |
| ESH Co-Chair | Hermann Haller, Hannover |
| Vice Presidents | Martin Paul, Berlin, Secretary |
| Karl-Heinz Rahn, Münster, Finances | |
| Thomas Unger, Berlin, Scientific Program | |
| ESH President | Stéphane Laurent, Paris |
| ISH President | Lars Hjalmar Lindholm |
| Berlin 2008 / ESH / ISH Committee |
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| Local Organizing Committee | Detlev Ganten, Berlin |
| Martin Paul, Berlin | |
| Karl-Heinz Rahn, Münster | |
| Thomas Unger, Berlin (Chair) | |
| ESH | Hermann Haller, Hannover |
| Anthony Heagerty, Manchester | |
| Wolfgang Kiowski, Zurich | |
| ISH | Lawrie J. Beilin, Perth |
| Anna Dominiczak, Glasgow | |
| Josef Zicha, Prague | |
| Organizing Committee |
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| Enrico Agabiti Rosei, Brescia |
Kerstin Amann, Erlangen |
| Michel Azizi, Paris |
Michael Bader, Berlin |
| Michel Burnier, Lausanne | Pierre Corvol, Paris |
| Peter Dominiak, Lübeck | Victor J. Dzau, Durham |
| Robert Fagard, Leuven | Guido Grassi, Milano |
| John Hall, Jackson | Martin Hausberg, Münster |
| Stevo Julius, Ann Arbor | Rainer Kolloch, Bielefeld |
| Gerard London, Paris | Friedrich Luft, Berlin |
| Jean-Michel Mallion, Grenoble | Joel Menard, Paris |
| Mizuo Miyazaki, Osaka | Wolfgang Rascher, Erlangen |
| Rainer Rettig, Greifswald | Eberhard Ritz, Heidelberg |
| José L. Rodicio, Madrid | Takao Saruta, Tokyo |
| Heribert Schunkert, Lübeck | Kazuaki Shimamoto, Sapporo |
| Peter Sleight, Oxford | Jan Staessen, Leuven |
| Pieter van Zwieten, Amsterdam | Massimo Volpe, Rome |
| Michael Weber, New York | Thomas Willnow, Berlin |
| Walter Zidek, Berlin | |
| Scientific Committee |
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| Thomas Unger, Berlin (Chair) | Sverre Kjeldsen, Oslo (Vice Chair) |
| Michael H. Alderman, New York | Lawrie J. Beilin, Perth |
| Alan Cowley, Milwaukee | Anna Dominiczak, Glasgow |
| Serap Erdine, Istanbul | Toshiro Fujita, Tokyo |
| Anthony M. Heagerty, Manchester | Xavier Jeunemaitre, Paris |
| Lars Hjalmar Lindholm, Umea | Guiseppe Mancia, Milan |
| Alberto Morganti, Milano | Krzysztof Narkiewicz, Gdansk |
| Toshio Ogihara, Osaka | Luis Ruilope, Madrid |
| Ernesto Schiffrin, Montreal | Roland Schmieder, Erlangen |
| Yackoob. K. Seedat, Durban | Harry A. Struyker-Boudier, Maastricht |
| Alberto Zanchetti, Milano | |
| Local Scientific Committee |
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| Thomas Unger, Berlin (Chair) | Maria Santoro (Secretary) |
| Heiko Funke-Kaiser, Berlin | Kai Kappert, Berlin |
| Ulrich Kintscher, Berlin | Jan Schefe, Berlin |
| Harm Peters, Berlin | Ulrike Muscha Steckelings, Berlin |
| Advisory Board |
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| Ettore Ambrosioni, Bologna | Gert Baumann, Berlin |
| Reinhard Bretzel, Giessen | Rainer Dietz, Berlin |
| Georg Ertl, Würzburg | Jürgen Floege, Aachen |
| Ulrich Frei, Berlin | Haralambos Gavras, Boston |
| Armin Kurtz, Regensburg | Pierre Larochelle, Montreal |
| Lisheng Liu, Beijing | Stephen MacMahon, Newton |
| Athanasios J. Manolis, Athens | Suzanne Oparil, Birmingham |
| Thomas Philipp, Essen | Ramiro Sanchez, Buenos Aires |
| Werner Scherbaum, Düsseldorf | Hans-Peter Schultheiss, Berlin |
| Margus Viigimaa, Tallin | J. Reuven Viskoper, Ashkelon |
| Zbigniew Gaciong, Warsaw | Khalid Yusoff, Kuala Lumpur |
| Z.Wu, Bejing | Kalina Kawecka-Jaszcz, Krakow |
| John Reid, Glasgow | |
| Breakfast Workshop Committee |
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Reinhold Kreutz, Berlin (Chair) |
Pavel Hamet, Montreal |
| Norbert Hübner, Berlin | |
| Special Scientific and Educational Chairs |
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| Renata Cifková, Prague (Chair) | Rainer Düsing, Bonn |
| Stéphane Laurent, Paris | Josep Redon, Valencia |
| Reinhard Gotzen, Berlin |
Günther Jonitz, Berlin |
| Friedrich Lohmann, Berlin |
Jürgen Scholze, Berlin |
| Sponsorship Committee |
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| Karl-Heinz Rahn, Münster (Chair) | Wolfgang Kiowski, Zurich |
| Alberto Morganti, Milano | Martin Paul, Berlin |
| Social Events Committee |
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| Joachim Hoyer, Marburg | |
| Travel Grant Committee |
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| Lars Christian Rump, Bochum (Chair) | |
| Osvaldo Kohlmann, Sao Paulo | Peter M. Nilsson, Malmö |
| Public Relations Committee |
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| Martin Middeke, München (Chair) |
Anne-Katrin Döbler, Stuttgart |