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iMig Connect Archives
iMig Connect #3 – 23 June 2026: Tribute to Professor Marie-Claude Jaurand
iMig Connect #2 – 1 April 2026: Second Edition
iMig Connect #1 – 9 December 2025: Welcome to the iMig Community
Officers
- Anna Nowak, MD, PhD
- President
- Perth, Australia
- anna.nowak@uwa.edu.au Get in touch
- Arnaud Scherpereel, MD, PhD
- Past President
- Lille, France
- arnaud.scherpereel@chu-lille.fr Get in touch
- Jim te Water Naude, MD, PhD
- Treasurer
- Cape Town, South Africa
- dr@drjim.co.za Get in touch
- Joseph Friedberg, MD
- Secretary
- Philadelphia, USA
- Jfriedberg@som.umaryland.edu Get in touch
Past Presidents
- 2014 - 2016 Dean Fennell
- 2010 - 2014 Steve Mutsaers
Past Secretaries
- 1997 - 2010 Steve Mutsaers
- 1993 - 1997 Marjan Versnel
Past Treasurers
- 2002 - 2018 Paul Baas
- 1997 - 2002 Per Frederik Ekhold
Current Boardmembers
- Andreas Rimner, MD
- Freiburg, Germany
- Rimnera@MSKCC.ORG
- Anna Nowak, MD, PhD
- President
- Perth, Australia
- anna.nowak@uwa.edu.au
- Arnaud Scherpereel, MD, PhD
- Past President
- Lille, France
- arnaud.scherpereel@chu-lille.fr
- Bruce Robinson, MD, PhD
- Perth, Australia
- bruce.robinson@uwa.edu.au
- Didier Jean, PhD
- Paris, France
- didier.jean@inserm.fr
- Haining Yang, MD, PhD
- New York, USA
- haining@hawaii.edu
- Hasan Batirel, MD
- Istanbul, Türkiye
- hbatirel@marmara.edu.tr
- Isabelle Opitz, MD
- Zurich, Switzerland
- Isabelle.Schmitt-Opitz@usz.ch
- Jan van Meerbeeck, MD, PhD
- Antwerp, Belgium
- jan.van.meerbeeck@uza.be
- Jim te Water Naude, MD, PhD
- Treasurer
- Cape Town, South Africa
- dr@drjim.co.za
- Joachim Aerts, MD, PhD
- Rotterdam, Netherlands
- j.aerts@erasmusmc.nl
- Joseph Friedberg, MD
- Secretary
- Philadelphia, USA
- Jfriedberg@som.umaryland.edu
- Ken O’Byrne, MD, PhD
- Brisbane, Australia
- k.obyrne@qut.edu.au
- Liz Darlison
- London, UK
- liz.darlison@mesothelioma.uk.com
- Marc de Perrot, MD
- Toronto, Canada
- Marc.DePerrot@uhn.ca
- Melissa Culligan, PhD
- Philadelphia, USA
- melissa.culligan@tuhs.temple.edu
- Raphael Bueno, MD
- Boston, USA
- rbueno@partners.org
- Sjaak Burgers, MD, PhD
- Amsterdam, Netherlands
- s.burgers@nki.nl
- Sonja Klebe, MD, PhD
- Adelaide, Australia
- sonja.klebe@flinders.edu.au
- Tom Cecil, MD
- Nottingham, UK
- tom.cecil@hhft.nhs.uk
Get in touch
- International Mesothelioma interest Group
- 610 Old Lancaster Rd Ste 100 Bryn Mawr 19010-3807
- Pennsylvania
- imig.mesothelioma@gmail.com