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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.
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