"patient representative video"

eanNews editor Benedetta Bodini talks to Elena Ruiz de la Torre, Executive Director of the European Migraine & Headache Alliance as part of our series of interviews with patient representatives on EAN Scientific Panels.

First in a new series of interviews with patient representatives on EAN Scientific Panels, discussing their roles and how the EAN and patient organisations can support each other.

Please tell us about your experience with the current COVID-19 Pandemic in your hospital? As in most hospitals, the current pandemic has had a significant impact on how the hospital is operated. The Department of Neurology was organised according to… Continue Reading

Please tell us about your experience with the current COVID-19 pandemic in your hospital With over 27.000 positively tested patients in the Netherlands, all hospitals had to make major adaptations to their general practice. Non-urgent care has been put on… Continue Reading

Italy has been the first European country to be violently hit by the ongoing pandemic of COVID-19. Whilst devastating, luckily the measures undertaken- although considered draconian by some- avoided greater spread across the whole nation. The areas where the first… Continue Reading

eanNews Editor, Benedetta Bodini, highlights some recent developments on the EAN's popular news platform

The Macedonian Neurological Society hosted the latest EAN Regional Teaching Day in the picturesque setting of Ohrid, North Macedonia, on 9 October 2025.

EAN Communications Committee Chair, Matilde Leonardi, looks back on an extremely busy and productive period of communication activity for the EAN.

The goal of our training is to help neurologists strengthen their ability to advocate for and with their patients for brain health at local and national levels.

The 14th Regional Teaching Course in sub-Saharan Africa took place in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania on 28–31 October, organised in cooperation with the Tanzanian Neuroscience Association, the Tanzanian Ministry of Health and the Muhimbili National Hospital.

EAN President Paul Boon takes a look at some of the major EAN events of 2023 and casts an eye over what is to come in 2024, when we will celebrate ten years of the EAN.

Report on the recent Alzheimer Europe lunch debate, focusing on ‘Dealing with behavioural and psychological symptoms (BPSD) in dementia care’.

Reports from three EAN Clinical Fellowship participants on their experiences in Brno, Liège, and Heeze.