• Past Président
  Jacques BONNET
• Trésorière
  Marie Claude BOURDILLON
• Secrétaire Général
  Marie Paule JACOB - LE NET
  

• Président
  Bart STAELS
• Trésorier Adjoint
  Jean François ARNAL
• Général Adjoint
  Jean DALLONGEVILLE
  

• Bourses
  Eduardo ANGLES CANO
• Prévention
  Michel FARNIER
  

• Communication
  Monique DOUILLON
• Responsable Accréditation:
  Michel KREMPF
  

• Catherine BOILEAU
  
• Fabrice BONNET
  
• John Martin CHAPMAN
  
• Pr Vincent DURLACH
  
• Alain Pierre GADEAU
  
• Gérald LUC
  
• Philippe MOULIN

• Dominique BONNEFONT ROUSSELOT
  
• Eric BRUCKERT
  
• Xavier COLLET
  
• Alexandre FREDENRICH
  
• Philippe GAMBERT
  
• Pierre MORANGE
  
• Robert SALVAYRE

These multidisciplinary societies have distributed multiple grants to young researchers and clinicians. They coordinate the development of the Clinico-Biological Centres for Lipids in France ("Centres Clinico-Biologiques des Lipides": CCBL), published several reference books ("L'Athérosclérose", "Nutrition Humaine" ), organized many national and international conferences (IAS, Paris 1997), supported prevention campaigns and created their website (http://www.nsfa.asso.fr, administrateur@nsfa.asso.fr) as a large and open source of information.

They have decided to unite their forces in the New French Atheroslerosis Society ("Nouvelle Société Française d'Athérosclérose": NSFA ) in order to better participate to the following missions: research funding and valorization, recommendation and book editing, care improvement, people information and education.

By our complementary competencies, this merged society will create a new momentum exemplified by our recent congress: jointly organized by both societies, with a large theme diversity (plaque imaging, cardiovascular prevention, dyslipidemia in transgenic animals, genetics and inflammation), this congress baptized the New French Arteriosclerosis Society, with a larger visibility in and out of France.

• PCSK9 Conference from gene to therapeutics
  March 11-13, 2010
  Nantes, France
  Website: http://pcsk9conference.com

• President
  Hun Taeg Chung
• Secretary General
  Sang Hyun Kim
• Chairman of Planning Committee
  Hyo Soo Kim
• Chairman of Scientific Committee
  Dong Ju Choi
• Editor-in-Chief
  Gou Young Koh
• Associate Editor
  Chung Hyun Cho
• Associate, Advertisement Committee
  Jin Man Cho
• Associate, Medial International Relationships Committee
  Choong Won Goh
• Associate, Foreign Cooperation Committee
  Sung Hee Choi
• Associate, Medial Insurance Legislation Committee
  Sang Hak Lee
• Associate, Education Committee
  Young keun Ahn
• Associate, Clinic Research Committee
  Sang Hak Lee
• Associate, Basic Research Committee
  kyung hyun Cho
• Associate, Guideline Committee for Hyperlipidemia Management
  Chan Seok Park
• Associate, Food & Nutrition Committee
  Eun Mi Kim
• Kyoung Soo Park
• Dong hoon Choi
• Goo Taeg Oh
  

• Chairman
  Hyun Ho Shin
• Financier
  Jong Ho Lee
• Associate, Planning Committee
  Cho Sang Ho
• Scientific Committee
  Eung Ju Kim
• Editor
  Hyun Jae Kang
• Chairman of Advertisement Committee
  Jeong Taek Woo
• Chairman of Medial Internatinal Relationships Committee
  Do Sun Lim
• Chairman of Foreign Cooperation Committee
  Mun Kyu Lee
• Chairman of Medial Insurance Legislation Committee
  Gi Hoon Han
• Chairman of Education Committee
  Myung Ho Jeong
• Chairman of Clinic Research Committee
  Yang Soo Jang
• Chairman of Basic Research Committee
  Jae Ryong Kim
• Guideline Committee for Hyperlipidemia Management
  Sang Hong Baek
• Chairman of Food & Nutrition Committee
  Hyun Sook Kim
• Director
  Chi Jeong Kim
• Auditor
  Moon Suk Nam

• APSAVD 2010
  Caims, Australia
  E-mail: apsavd@meetingsfirst.com.au

• The Korean Society of Lipidology & Atherosclerosis
  805FL, Masters tower, 553 Dowha-Dong, Mapo-gu, Seoul, Korea
  Tel : 82-2-3275-5330
  Fax : 82-2-3275-5331
  E-mail : ksla@lipid.or.kr

• President:
  I. Lekakis
• Vice President:
  G. Yfanti
• Secretary:
  D. Richter
• Special Secretary:
  L. Rallidis
• Treasurer:
  N. Papageorgakis
  
  

• Members:
  Th. Apostolou
  K. Makrylakis
  D. Stamatis
  K. Tsioufis
• Honorary President:
  G. Tsitouris
• Past President:
  A. Zampelas
• Secretariat:
  Matina Katsouni

Greek scientists showed early an interest in the subject of atherosclerosis. Dr. Konstantine Moiras organized the first European meeting on atherosclerosis in 1960 and Dr. Aravanis founded the first Greek society on atherosclerosis in the 1961 to 1970 period. The Hellenic Society of Lipidiology was initially founded in 1990, by Drs. George Tsitouris and Theodore Gounaris who became the first President and Vice-President respectively, and received its current name in 1996.

The cornerstone of the Society's policies is to serve science and the society and to maintain public trust based on principles adopted by the IAS, the EAS, and the AHA.

Goals of the society are:

• To advance the education of health professionals, the students of the health profession and the general public on the risks which contribute to the development of atherosclerosis and current guidelines for prevention and/or treatment.
• To encourage basic, clinical, epidemiological and nutritional research in Greece pertinent to atherosclerosis, based on international standards.
• To promote and facilitate international collaborations and exchanges of Greek scientists with scientists abroad.

Publications

• Atheroma, a quarterly publication currently edited by Dr. Loukianos Rallidis containing updated reviews and current topics; is distributed to 7,000 physicians and scientists.

Meetings

• Local meetings: One or more meetings every year in Athens, and/or in other Greek cities, frequently in collaboration with other societies.

International meetings:

• A series of three conferences, which included one-day state of the art symposium (April 6-8, 1995, April 10-12, 1997, April 5-7, 2001) and two-day physicians education course. The instructors of the courses were faculty who taught in the AHA-sponsored courses "for management of EAS and IAS." Directors of the courses were Dr. Gustav Schonfeld (St. Louis, 1995), Dr. John Brunzell (Seattle, Washington, 1997), and Dr. Peter Kwiterovich (Johns Hopkins University, 2001).
• 1999, May 26-29, Athens: 71st EAS Congress on Atherosclerosis, Co-Sponsored by IAS
• 1999, May 23-25, Delphi: Satellite Symposium of 71st EAS: The Metabolic Syndrome
• 1999 May 30-June 1, Kos: Satellite of 71st EAS: Animal Models of Atherosclerosis
• 2004, September 2-6, Heraklion, Crete: The HDL Workshop

Report from the IAS-sponsored Workshop on HDL 2007
(Santorini, Greece, September 9-12, 2007)

International affiliations:

• The society is a member of EAS since 1993, and IAS since 1996.

• The President and a nine-member executive board.

• Structure and function of apolipoproteins and regulation of their genes:
  • role of apoA-I in the biogenesis and functions of HDL;
  • role of apoE in atherogenesis and in Alzheimer's disease;
  • role of hormone nuclear receptors in the regulation of the apolipoprotein genes in vivo.