Table A1.
The INRG Task Force: Participants of the INRG Meeting (Whistler, Canada, September 17-19, 2005)
| Name | Country and Cooperative Group | Role |
|---|---|---|
| Susan L. Cohn | United States, COG | Chair |
| Andrew D.J. Pearson | United Kingdom, SIOPEN | Chair |
| Statistics committee | ||
| Wendy B. London | United States, COG | Chair |
| Emanuele S.G. d'Amore | Italy, SIOPEN | |
| Andreas Faldum | Germany, GPOH | |
| Barbara Hero | Germany, GPOH | |
| Tomoko Iehara | Japan, JANB/JINCS | |
| David Machin | United Kingdom, SIOPEN | |
| Veronique Mosseri* | France, SIOPEN | |
| Michel Peuchmaur | France, SIOPEN | |
| Hiroyuki Shimada | United States, COG | |
| Biology committee | ||
| Peter F. Ambros | Austria, SIOPEN | Chair |
| Inge M. Ambros* | Austria, SIOPEN | |
| Garrett M. Brodeur | United States, COG | |
| Jerome Couturier | France, SIOPEN | |
| Michelle Haber | Australia | |
| Javed Khan | United States, COG | |
| John M. Maris | United States, COG | |
| Akira Nakagawara | Japan, JANB/JINCS | |
| Gudrun Schleiermacher | France, SIOPEN | |
| Frank Speleman* | Belgium, SIOPEN | |
| Ruediger Spitz | Germany, GPOH | |
| Nadine Van Roy | Belgium, SIOPEN | |
| Metastatic disease committee | ||
| Katherine K. Matthay | United States, COG | Chair |
| Klaus Beiske | Norway, SIOPEN | |
| Sue Burchill | United Kingdom, SIOPEN | |
| Irene Cheung | United States, COG | |
| Francesco Giammarile | France, SIOPEN | |
| Eiso Hiyama | Japan | |
| Jean Michon | France, SIOPEN | |
| Robert C. Seeger | United States, COG | |
| Barry Shulkin | United States, COG | |
| Surgery committee | ||
| Tom Monclair | Norway, SIOPEN | Chair |
| Hervé Brisse | France, SIOPEN | |
| Giovanni Cecchetto | Italy, SIOPEN | |
| Keith S.J. Holmes | United Kingdom, SIOPEN | |
| Michio Kaneko | Japan, JANB/JINCS | |
| Jed G. Nuchtern | United States, COG | |
| Dietrich von Schweinitz | Germany, GPOH | |
| Senior advisors | ||
| Frank Berthold | Germany, GPOH | |
| Victoria Castel | Spain, SIOPEN | |
| Robert P. Castleberry* | United States, COG | |
| Nai-Kong Cheung | United States, COG | |
| Bruno De Bernardi | Italy, SIOPEN | |
| Helen Irving | Australia, COG | |
| Ruth Ladenstein | Austria, SIOPEN | |
| C. Patrick Reynolds | United States, COG | |
| Jinhua Zhang | China | |
| Young investigators | ||
| Julie R. Park | United States, COG | |
| Roswitha Schumacher-Kuckelkorn | Germany, GPOH | |
| Thorsten Simon | Germany, GPOH | |
| Hidetaka Niizuma | Japan, JANB/JINCS | |
| Toby Trahair | Australia | |
| William Guy Forbeck Research Foundation | ||
| Jennifer Forbeck | United States | |
| John T. Kemshead | United Kingdom |
Abbreviations: COG, Children's Oncology Group; SIOPEN, International Society of Pediatric Oncology Europe Neuroblastoma Group; GPOH, German Pediatric Oncology and Hematology Group; JANB/JINCS, Japanese Advanced Neuroblastoma Study Group/Japanese Infantile Neuroblastoma Co-operative Study Group.
*
International Neuroblastoma Risk Group Task Force members not present at the Whistler meeting.