"amsterdam 2017"

This past weekend the EAN programme committee met to select the Oral Sessions and ePoster Sessions among the 1932 submitted abstracts. It was a tough job, but we would like to thank the more than 120 reviewers who have done… Continue Reading

by Gunhild Waldemar and Eveline Sipido   I. Liaison Committee Revised Mandate Following the decision to form a joint EFNS-ENS Liaison Committee the mandate for the LC has been revised, and the list of LC members now also include ENS… Continue Reading

Every year the President provides a report to the Council of Delegates, our senior governing body, about the events of the previous year. This year the Council will meet at the World Congress of Neurology and I shall report as follows.

The EFNS Management Committee meets twice a year, once at our Annual Congress, and once in early March in our Vienna Head Office. We have just held our March 2013 meeting and had a busy agenda. Some highlights:

by Detlef Kömpf The EFNS and ENS will cease to exist at our first EFNS/ENS Joint Meeting in Istanbul in June 2014. Our new joint Society, the European Academy of Neurology, EAN, will be founded at the very same time.… Continue Reading

The 16th EFNS Congress in Stockholm from 8th to 11th September was terrific, the largest congress we have ever had with 5400 participants and a packed programme of main topic lectures, focussed workshops, oral presentations and poster sessions covering the whole spectrum of neurology. The programme was organised in collaboration with the Movement Disorder Society and by the European Federation of Autonomic Societies. Singling out individual items is invidious but the highlight of every congress is the EFNS clinical lecture, this year eloquently given by Professor Marie-Germaine Bousser from Paris on CADASIL (cerebral autosomal dominant arteriopathy with subcortical infarcts and leukoencephalopathy). She told us about her first family with young onset stroke and migraine and cerebral white matter lesions.

This is the first page of a monthly series. A President needs a strong team. We have an excellent Management Committee and dedicated office staff. In addition to ad hoc email communication and occasional teleconferences we meet twice a year - once at our annual congress and once at our Head Office in Vienna. We held our spring meeting on Saturday March 3rd in Vienna when a long agenda kept us out of the spring sunshine. The agenda covered the activities of each of our liaison, training and education and scientific committees, finance and future plans. The following are of special interest: