The GOLD National Leaders are individuals from around the world with an interest in promoting the goals of GOLD within their home country. The group meets periodically to share information about programs of health education, COPD management, and prevention.
ARGENTINA
Dr. Andrés L. Echazarreta
La Plata, Argentina
BANGLADESH
Dr. Kazi S. Bennoor
Dhaka, Bangladesh
Prof. Md. Mostafizur Rahman
Dhaka, Bangladesh
BELGIUM
Professor Wim Janssens
Leuven, Belgium
BULGARIA
Dr. Yavor Ivanov
Pleven, Bulgaria
CHINA
Fu-Qiang Wen, MD, PhD
COLOMBIA
Alejandro Casas, MD
Vice-Director, COPD Department
Latin American Thoracic Society
CROATIA
Neven Miculinic, MD
Zagreb, Croatia
CZECH REPUBLIC
Stanislav Kos, MD, PhD, FCCP
Mirosov, Czech Republic
EGYPT
Hisham Tarraf, MD
Cairo, Egypt
FINLAND
Witold Mazur, MD, PhD
Helsinki, Finland
FRANCE
Prof. Gaetan Deslée
Reims, France
GEORGIA
Maia Gotua, MD, PhD
Tbilisi, Georgia
GERMANY
Daiana Stolz MD MPH
University Medical Center Freiburg
Freiburg, Germany
GREECE
Prof. Konstantinos Kostikas
Ioannina, Greece
HONG KONG CHINA
David S.C. Hui, MD
Shatin, N.T. Hong Kong
ICELAND
Dr. Gunnar Gudmundsson
Reykjavik, Iceland
INDIA
Dr. R. Narasimhan, MD
Chennai, India
Dr Kshitij Agarwal, MD
New Delhi, India
INDONESIA
Prof. Faisal Yunus
IRAN
Dr. Masjedi Mohammad Reza
Tehran, Iran
Mohammad Ashkan Moslehi, MD
Shiraz, Iran
IRELAND
Sarah O'Beirne, MD PhD
Dublin, Ireland
Dr. Breda Cushen, MD PhD
Beaumont Hospital
Dublin, Ireland
ISRAEL
Zvi G. Fridlender, MD, MSc
Jerusalem, Israel
ITALY
Prof. Antonio Spanevello, MD, FERS
Varese, Italy
JAPAN
Takahide Nagase, MD
Tokyo, Japan
KAZAKHSTAN
Tair Nurpeissov
Almaty, Kazakhstan
KOREA
Yeon-Mok Oh, MD
Seoul, South Korea
KUWAIT
Prof. Mousa Khadadah
Kuwait University
KYRGYZSTAN
Talant Sooronbaev, MD
Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan
LEBANON
Mirna Waked, MD, FCCP
Balamand University, Lebanon
LITHUANIA
Prof Kestutis Malakauskas, MD, PhD
Kaunas, Lithuania
MALTA
Prof. Joseph M Cacciotolo
Pieta, Malta
MALAYSIA
Mat Zuki Mat Jaeb, MD
Kelantan, Malaysia
MEXICO
Ana Sofía Ramírez-García Luna, MD
Mexico City, Mexico
MOLDOVA
Alexandru Corlateanu, MD, PhD
ERS National Delegate
Republic of Moldova
NEPAL
Dr. Navin Kumar Mishra, MD, MPH, FAPSR, FCCP
Kathmandu Medical College
Nepal, Asia
PAKISTAN
Prof. Javaid Khan
Karachi, Pakistan
Dr. Jamil Ur Rehman Tahir
Kammanwala, Sialkot Cantt, Pakistan
Dr. Mohammad Osman Yusuf
Islamabad, Pakistan
POLAND
Pawel Sliwinski, MD, PhD
Warsaw, Poland
ROMANIA
Florin Mihaltan, MD
Bucharest, Romania
Ruxandra Ulmeanu, MD
Bucharest, Romania
RUSSIA
Prof. Zaurbek Aisanov, MD
Moscow, Russia
Prof. Alexandre Vizel, MD
Kazan, Tatarstan Republic, Russian Federation
Sergey Fedosenko, MD, PhD
Siberian State Medical University, Tomsk, Russia
SAUDI ARABIA
Mohammed Al Ghobain, MD
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
SINGAPORE
Kian-Chung Ong, MD
Wan-Cheng Tan, MD
Chair, Asian Pacific COPD Roundtable
SLOVAK REPUBLIC
Ivan Solovič
Propad, Slovakia
SOUTH AFRICA
Prof. Richard van Zyl-Smit
University of Cape Town and
Groote Schuur Hospital
Cape Town, South Africa
SPAIN
Dr. Patricia Sobradillo
SWITZERLAND
Daiana Stolz, MD
Basel, Switzerland
SYRIA
Yousser Mohammad, MD
Lattakia, Syria
TRINIDAD & TOBAGO
Dr. Sateesh Madhava Sakhamuri
The University of the West Indies,
Trinidad and Tobago
TURKEY
Prof. Dr. Hakan Gunen
Malatya, Turkey
Prof. Nurdan Kokturk, MD
Ankara, Turkey
UGANDA
Patricia Alupo, MBChB., MMED
Makerere University Lung Institute in Uganda, Africa
UKRAINE
Vitalii Poberezhets, MD
National Pirogov Memorial Medical University · Department of Propedeutics of Internal Medicine
Vinnytsia, Ukraine
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Ed Portilllo, PharmD
University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Pharmacy
Madison, Wisconsin
VIETNAM
Ngo Quy Chau, MD, PhD
Hanoi, Vietnam
Le Thi Tuyet Lan, MD, PhD
Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Sy Duong-Quy, MD, PhD, FCCP
Lam Dong Medical College, Vietnam