Congress
The WAA held its first Congress in Japan in 1986. Since that time, the Congress has been sequentially rotated through Asia, the Americas and Europe and occurs every 2 years when possible.
Crown Prince and Princess Takamata
1st International Congress of the World Apheresis Association
May 20 – 23, 1986 Tokyo, Japan
Past Congress Locations and Presidents
| Congress | Date | Location | President Name, Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| I | May 20-23,1986 | Tokyo, Japan | Gerard Rifle, FRANCE |
| II | May 18-20,1988 | Ottawa, Canada | Gail Rock, CANADA |
| III | April 9-12, 1990 | Amsterdam, Netherlands | Cees Th. Smit Sibinga, NETHERLANDS |
| IV | June 3-5, 1992 | Sapporo, Japan | Gioro Avanzi, ITALY |
| V | March 9-12, 1994 | Houston, USA | Tetsuzo Aguishi, JAPAN |
| VI | November 11-14, 1996 | Florence, Italy | Francis S. Morrison, USA |
| VII | October 9-13,1998 | Sao Paolo, Brazil | Mauro Valbonesi, ITALY |
| VIII | July 25-28, 2000 | Perth, Australia | Horst Klinkman, GERMANY |
| IX | September 7-10, 2002 | Paris, France | Thomas Price, USA |
| X | May 5-8, 2004 | Miami Beach, USA | Peter Ivanovich, USA |
| XI | March 2-4, 2007 | Yokohama, Japan | Loic Guillevin, FRANCE |
| XII | March 17-20, 2009 | Buenos Aires, Argentina | Noritoshi Shibua, JAPAN |
| XIII | September 1-4, 2010 | Interlaken, Switzerland | Bernd Stegmayr, SWEDEN |
| XIV | September 13-16, 2012 | Istanbul, Turkey | Robert Weinstein, USA |
| XV | April 2-5, 2014 | San Francisco, USA | Hiroshi Tsuda, JAPAN |
| XVI | April 27-29, 2016 | Paris, France | Paolo Perseghin, ITALY |
| XVII | September 14-17, 2022 | Istanbul, Turkey | Fevzi Altuntas, TURKEY |
| XVIII | September 11-13, 2024 | Yogyakarta, Indonesia | Hans Vrielink, NETHERLANDS |