LEADERSHIP

Governing Body

The APAGE is governed by a Council consisting of members elected from its member countries and regions at the General Meeting comprising the following: President; Vice President; Incoming two APDW Presidents; Secretary-General; Treasurer; Chairpersons of six committees; six Council Members and up to six co-opted Council Members; and representatives of editor of the Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology (JGH). National or regional gastroenterological societies with academic standing in the Asian Pacific region are eligible to be members. Each nation or region is represented by one society.

APAGE Council 2023 - 2025

APAGE Executive Committee 2023-2025

Membership: Council Members 2023-2025

Executive Committee

President

Choon-Jin Ooi
Singapore

Immediate Past President

Justin Che-Yuen Wu
Hong Kong

Vice-President

Kai-Chun Wu
Xi An

Secretary-General

Raja Affendi Raja Ali
Kuala Lumpur

Treasurer

Wai-Keung Leung
Hong Kong

Council Members

Varocha Mahachai
Bangkok

Cheng-Wei Tang
Chengdu

Catherine Stedman
Christchurch

TACL Piyarathna
Colombo

Mai-Hong Bang
Hanoi

Ari Fahrial Syam
Jakarta

Bhupendra Kumar Basnet
Kathmandu

Mathew Philip
Kochi

Raman Muthukaruppan
Kota Kinabalu

Denis C Ngo
Manila

Alex Boussioutas
Melbourne

Sher Rehman
Peshawar

Satoshi Mochida
Saitama

Joo-Sung Kim
Seoul

Tiing-Leong Ang
Singapore

Stephen Kin-Kwok Tsao
Singapore

Jia-Horng Kao
Taipei

Than Than Aye
Yangon

Co-opted Council Members

Govind Makharia
New Delhi

Hyun-Soo Kim
Seoul

Jing-Yuan Fang
Shanghai

Dr Lubna Kamani
Karachi

Commitees

Justin Che-Yuen Wu
Chair
APAGE-AGA Joint Symposium

Varocha Mahachai
Chair
APAGE/JGHF Clinician-Scientist Training Fellowship Award

Viet-Hang Dao
Editor-in-Chief
APDNews

Wai-Keung Leung
Chair
Research Programme Award

Choon-Jin Ooi
Chair
Inflammatory Bowel Disease

Govind Makharia
Chair
Celiac Disease

Raja Affendi Raja Ali
Co-Chair
Emerging Leaders (Y-APAGE)

Rashid Lui
Co-Chair
Emerging Leaders (Y-APAGE)

Task Forces

Tiing-Leong Ang
Chair
Green and Sustainability in Gastroenterology

Nonthalee Pausawasdi
Chair
Women and Leadership in GI

Wai-Keung Leung
Chair
Pre-Neoplastic GI Lesions

Wai-Keung Leung
Chair
AI in GI

Ex-Officio

APDW2023 President

Somchai Leelakusolvong Bangkok

APDW2024 President

Dadang Makmun Jakarta

Representative, JGH Foundation

Rakesh Aggarwal Puducherry

Committee of Past Presidents

2021-2023 Justin Che-Yuen Wu Hong Kong
2018-2021 Dai-Ming Fan Xi’an
2014-2018 Kentaro Sugano Tochigi
2004-2008 Kwong-Ming Fock Singapore
2001-2004 Shiu-Kum Lam Hong Kong

APAGE Representatives

Asian Pacific Digestive Week Federation (APDWF)
Justin Che-Yuen Wu Hong Kong
Choon-Jin Ooi Singapore
Kai-Chun Wu Xi'an