Pic. 1. The AFAN stand before the opening of #EAN2018
Thanks to a memorandum of understanding between the European academy of neurology (EAN) and the African academy of neurology (AFAN), for the second year, AFAN has had an exhibition stand at the EAN congress; this year in Lisbon, Portugal. This has been a great opportunity to inform the neurological public of the existence of AFAN. AFAN was created in 2015 under the aegis of the World Federation of Neurology (WFN) and its president at the time, Prof Raad Shakir, as well as two African neurological greats, Profs Amadou Gallo Diop and Riadh Gouider. As AFAN takes its baby steps onto the international Neurological stage, the EAN has been on hand to support AFAN in its endeavours.
Pic 2 Lawrence Tucker extolling the virtues of the EEG online course
Pic 3. The epitome of international comraderie: Left to right: Laura Druce (WFN Administrative officer), Amadou Gallo Diop (Senegal), Riadh Gouider (Tunisia), Jade Levy (WFN Administrative officer)
Manning (so to speak!) the stand was the AFAN Secretary General (Augustina Charway-Felli; Ghana) and treasurer (Lawrence Tucker; republic of Routh Africa.) The Public was informed not only about AFAN, but some of the interesting work that is being done, such as the EEG online course by the Neurological Association of South Africa (NASA), amongst others.
Profs Gallo Diop and Gouider were honoured by the EAN with the Marteau D’or. An incredible honour indeed. AFAN is very proud to be associated with them.
Pic 4. The Marteau d’or: Left to Right: Franz Fazekas (EAN president), Amadou Gallo Diop, Riadh Gouider, Gunther Deuschl (immediate past EAN president)
The moving force behind the collaboration cannot be left unmentioned: much credit goes to Ms Eveline Sipido, EAN Liaison officer. Of course, we could not resist being part of the #EAN2018 photo trend!
Pic 5. Left to right: Eveline Sipido, Augustina Charway-Felli, Lawrence Tucker
AFAN is confident that close and fruitful collaboration between EAN and AFAN will continue well into the future. See you all at #EAN2019 in Oslo!
More on AFAN can be found here: http://www.afaneurology.org/
