[AfSHG-Listserv] CONGARTULATIONS

[Yehia Zakaria]

Dear Everybody and Raj,
Congratulations to everybody and to Raj [for his efforts], Charles and Melanie.
It is indeed a major milestone.
Wishing to see you all in Cairo next year.
-- 
Best regards,

Yehia Zakaria Gad, M.D.
Prof. of Molecular Genetics & Chairman
Dept. of Medical Molecular Genetics
Division of Human Genetics and Genome Research
National Research Center 
Tahrir st., Dokki, Giza, 12311 Egypt.
Tel: + (202) 338 7953, Fax: + (202) 337 0931 
Mobile phone: + (2) 010 143 43 77 
Email address: yzgad at tedata.net.eg/yzgad at hotmail.com
personal webpage: http://www.geocities.com/y_z_gad/homepage.html


Quoting Adebowale Adeyemo <aadeyemo at genomecenter.howard.edu>:

> Hello everyone,
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> This is to inform you that the African Society of Human Genetics has
> been accepted as the 7th Full Member society of the International
> Federation of Human Genetics Societies (IFHGS). This is a major
> milestone in the life of our young society as it signifies another step
> in our recognition as a regional human genetics society. Thanks to
> Professor Raj Ramesar for the work he did to get this through.
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> The International Federation of Human Genetics Societies
> (http://www.ifhgs.org <http://www.ifhgs.org/> ) was founded in 1996 to
> provide a transparent structure to facilitate communication throughout
> the international community of human geneticists. The Federation
> provides a platform to share information about research, education and
> clinical services in an interactive way. There are at present several
> types of membership: Full, Corresponding, Affiliate and Preliminary.
> Only multinational societies can be Full Members, which at the present
> time comprise: The American Society of Human Genetics, Asia-Pacific
> Society of Human Genetics (APSHG), East Asian Union of Human Genetics
> Societies (EAUHGS), The European Society of Human Genetics (ESHG), The
> Human Genetics Society of Australasia (HGSA), Latin American Network of
> Human Genetics Societies, and (most recently), the African Society of
> Human Genetics (AfSHG). National human genetics societies are eligible
> to participate in the Federation as Corresponding Members. National or
> international organizations representing a specialty dedicated to human
> genetics are eligible to participate in the Federation as Affiliate
> Members. A newly formed organization dedicated to human genetics in a
> country that does not have a national society of human genetics may
> qualify for membership as a Preliminary Member by first affiliating
> itself with a Full Member of the Federation. Any geneticist in the world
> who is a member of an affiliated human genetics society is automatically
> connected to the Federation. 
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> Representatives of Full Member societies comprise the Executive
> Committee. Each member society is represented in the Federation by a
> president and a liaison officer.  Raj Ramesar has been nominated to be
> the official liaison of the AfSHG for a five-year term. The liaison goes
> to all the Executive Committee meetings that are usually held in
> conjunction with major human genetics meetings, such as the ASHG meeting
> and the ESHG meeting.
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> Congratulations, everyone!
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>  Dr Adebowale Adeyemo
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> Communications/IT
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> African Society of Human Genetics
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> aadeyemo at afshg.org
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> www.afshg.org <http://www.afshg.org/> 
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> National Human Genome Center
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> Howard University
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> 2216 6th Street NW
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> Washington, DC 20059
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> aadeyemo at genomecenter.howard.edu
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