EAN News

We are happy to announce that there will be a total of 4 EAN-Days in 2020, and the first one will be in Almaty, Kazakhstan on 18 April.

After more than five highly successful and productive years, EAN aims to continue the excellent work of its dedicated officers while giving an opportunity for new colleagues to contribute and bring fresh perspectives towards our mission to reduce the burden of neurological disease in Europe.

External Interview Prof. Muresanu interviews Prof. G. Waldemar, President- Elect of the BioMed Alliance

As in the previous years, EANpages asked EAN committee members, panel chairs, and invited speakers ‘which session one should not miss at the upcoming congress in Paris 2020. Please find their answers below!

The Scientific Committee is fully committed to a great mission: To increase and share the best clinical knowledge and the cutting-edge information from translational research in all neurological fields. Main actions are i) to facilitate exchanges and synergies with the Scientific Panels ii) to support the Guideline Production Group (update and diffusion of expertise and best clinical practice), iii) to interact positively with other scientific societies with reciprocal exchanges and liaise with the European Affairs sub-Committee to increase the awareness of Neurology in Europe.

It is such a pleasure for me to see how EAN has been continuously growing in terms of members, activities, engagements, promotion, and impact on several important activities inside the European Community.

For February 2020, we have selected: Kleine-Borgmann J, Schmidt K, Hellmann A, Bingel U. Effects of open-label placebo on pain, functional disability, and spine mobility in patients with chronic back pain: a randomized controlled trial.

Iceland is a country of 360,000 inhabitants, who are mostly of Icelandic ethnic origin together with 11% of people, who are of eastern European ancestry. There are seven universities in Iceland. The University of Iceland has a faculty of medicine, from which around 48 physicians graduate each year. Medical education consists of seven years: three preclinical years, three clinical years and an internship year. Training mostly takes place in the University Hospital in Reykjavik but also in several local hospitals and primary care clinics outside the main hospital. For specialty training in neurology, physicians have to move abroad, and most go to Scandinavia, or to the United States.

New Scales and Scores by EAN Scientific Panel on Higher Cortical Functions are available online now!

The Bulgarian Society of Neurology has submitted its guidelines, which are now available for EAN Members in the Guideline Reference Center.

It is our pleasure to introduce the new EAN Scientific Panels’ Management groups for 2020-2022 period! The Scientific Committee received altogether 173 applications from 36 different countries.

Be part of the EAN congress in Paris and shape its programme! Send us your abstracts for both ePoster and oral presentations until January 15, 2020(23:59 CET)! Accepted abstracts will be presented at the 6th EAN congress and published in an online supplement to the European Journal of Neurology.

One of the main aims of the European Academy of Neurology is to establish common standards of diagnosis, treatment and care within the various subfields of neurology across Europe. As a region of diverse jurisdictions, languages, markets and healthcare challenges, European neurology needs to establish not only guidelines for the diagnosis and the treatment of neurological disorders, but also in order to maintain and enhance the discipline and practice of neurology.

Ukraine is the largest country entirely within Europe with the territory of 603,628 km2. The main part of the territory of Ukraine is located within the East European Plain (up to 95 % of area). There are 25 main administrative regions, and also cities with a special status (such as Kyiv, capital of the country), which are divided, in turn, into districts. The population of Ukraine is more than 42 million.