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It is a great pleasure for me to announce that the 1st meeting of the International Phototherapy Association (IPTA) will be held from July 1st to 2nd 2006, in Suwa City in the beautiful Japanese Alps of Nagano Prefecture, a recent host of the Winter Olympics. Suwa City is famous as a summer resort and is situated on a beau­tiful plateau, with a lake and fantastic hot springs. I am particularly honoured that the IPTA will hold its first congress as a joint meeting with the 18th annual con­gress of the Japan Laser Therapy associa­tion (JaLTA). These days, many more papers on light therapy,or phototherapy, useing high intensity light-emitting diodes (LEDs) and photodynamic therapy(PDT)are appearing in the international literture in addition to phototerapy with lasers.Driven by this situation, we have de­cided to establish a new academic society, the International Phototherapy (IPTA), and I am very proud, and honoured, to be the president of the 1stIPTA congress.Looking to the future, Professor Ronald Wheeland (USA) who served as the president of the American Society for Laser Medicine and Surgery (ASLMS) between 1993 and 1994, has accepted the post of IPTA President-Elect, and so, in 2007, he will hold the 2ndIPTA congress in the USA.We look forward to the increase of IPTA members in the USA. The journal Laser Therhas become the official journal of IPTA. Professor Wheeland is one of the co-editor of this journal. From Volume 15 of this journal, we welcome Profes­sor Harubumi Kato (Japan) to the editorial board, one of the world leaders in photodynamic therapy.
I am very proud to be holding the 1congress of the IPTA in the marvelous nature of Nagano prefecture. We look forward to your participation!








@ Yoshimi Asagai, MD
President of the 1stIPTA Congress
Chairman of the Board, Shinano Handicapped Childrenfs Hospital
Visiting Professor of Orthopedic Surgery, Tokyo Medical University

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