Leadership &
Organizing Teams
Meet the IFSI leadership and the local Udaipur organizing committee guiding the 14th World Congress on Itch.
IFSI Board Members
Ethan Lerner
President
USA
Leigh Nattkemper
Vice-President
USA
Christina Schut
Secretary
Germany
Alan Fleischer
Treasurer
USA
Board of Directors
Sarina Elmariah
USA
Brian Kim
USA
Andreas Kremer
Switzerland
Hiroyuki Murota
Japan
Sonja Ständer
Germany
Jacek Szepietowski
Poland
Mitsutoshi Tominaga
Japan
Elke Weisshaaar
Germany
Taylor Follansbee
YIC Representative
USA
Organizing Committee
Asit Mittal
Organizing Chair
Udaipur, India
Reena Mittal
Committee Member
Udaipur, India
Lalit Gupta
Committee Member
Udaipur, India
Rajesh Verma
Committee Member
Delhi, India
Naziba Riyaz
Committee Member
Udaipur, India
Sharad Mehta
Committee Member
Udaipur, India
Kapil Vyas
Committee Member
Udaipur, India
Prabhakar Sangoli
Committee Member
Bengaluru, India
Indrashish Podar
Committee Member
Kolkata, India
Praveen Kumar S
Committee Member
Bengaluru, India
Vijaya Shankar
Committee Member
Puducherry, India
Jaya Verma
Committee Member
Udaipur, India
Manisha Balai
Committee Member
Udaipur, India
Nidheesh Agarwal
Committee Member
Udaipur, India
Jinisha Jain
Committee Member
Ahmedabad, India
Shyam Verma
Committee Member
Vadodara, India
Scientific Committee
Asit Mittal
Udaipur, India
Ethan Lerner
USA
Sonja Ständer
Germany
Elke Weisshaar
Germany
Jacek Szepietowski
Poland
Sarina Elmariah
USA
Leigh Nattkemper
USA
Taylor Follansbee
USA
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