Prof. Allan Bretag Prof. Allan Bretag graduated from Adelaide Teachers’ College and The University of Adelaide in 1965. After teaching at Enfield High School he returned to The University of Adelaide as a Demonstrator (Lecturer Level A) while simultaneously working on his PhD project “Muscle Cell Membranes and Chloride Ions”, completing the latter in 1971. Since then he has been awarded an Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship for postdoctoral research with Robert Stämpfli at the University of the Saarland in Homburg/Saar, Germany and taken sabbatical leave to work with Oger Rougier at the Claude Bernard University in Lyon, France, Richard Adrian at Cambridge University in the UK and Shirley Bryant at the University of Cincinnati in the USA. Between his ventures overseas, he has worked voluntarily and continuously for the Muscular Dystrophy Association of South Australia as President for 10 years and, subsequently, as Vice President and Director of Research for more than 20 years. In recognition of his contributions to university teaching and research, he was made an Honorary Visiting Research Fellow at The University of Adelaide in 1988 while being promoted at SAIT (later the University of South Australia) to Associate Professor in 1989 and full Professor of Physiology in 1997. In 1998 he was president of the IXth International Congress on Neuromuscular Diseases held in Adelaide, Australia. He retired from his substantive university position at the end of 2005 but continues his research on ion channels and muscle diseases as an Adjunct Professor with postgraduate students and colleagues at both the University of South Australia and The University of Adelaide. Past presidents 1990 - 1994 Prof. Reinhardt Rüdel, Munich and Ulm, Germany 1994 - 2002 Andy Esworthy, Adelaide, Australia 2002 - 2006 Prof. Piraye Serdaroglu, Istanbul, Turkey 2006 - Prof. Allan Bretag, Adelaide, Australia