EAN News

President Prof Fazekas continues to recover.

During the last meeting of the Board, it has been decided that the current Rare neurological diseases task force, founded in 2016, will be transformed into the first EAN Coordinating Panel.

The European Academy of Neurology is pleased to welcome Nepal as its new Corresponding Institutional Member! From now on, the Nepal Academy of Neurology (NAN), led by President, Prof. Dr. Krishna Kumar Oli, is going to be invited as an observer to the EAN Assembly of Delegates and to an informal meeting with other Corresponding Institutional Members, taking place during the EAN congresses.

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

Clinical practice guidelines are a bridge between scientific evidence and real-world practice. This is the main reason why I decided to advance my background experience (in epidemiology, systematic reviews and meta-analyses), by working on guidelines. Because Neurology is my main… Continue Reading

Production of European standards of diagnosis, treatment and care within the various subfields of neurology, is one of the most important aims of EAN. EAN has therefore set-up a Guideline Production Group (GPG), to provide scientific assistance to active task forces and to oversee the work flow.

Online voting for the EAN Scientific Panel Management Group members will begin on 8 October and continue through to 22 October.

The EAN-Day in Estonia was organised in the 31st of May, 2019, in the Laulasmaa Conference Centre near Tallinn, next to the Annual Congress of the Estonian Ludvig Puusepp Society of Neurologists and Neurosurgeons. Three speakers from different European countries were invited, supported by the EAN , to lecture in topics by local needs: Professor Jean-Marc Leger an expert on peripheral neuropathies, from the University Hospital Pitié-Salpêtrière, Paris, France; Professor Nils Erik Gilhus from the Haukeland University Hospital, Bergen, Norway, whose field in myasthenia; and Professor Alessandro Padovani from Brescia, Italy, to lecture on different aspects of dementias.

During the Assembly of Delegates at the Oslo Congress, Professor Deuschl acknowledged Professor Hannah Cock’s longstanding tribute to EAN and her outstanding achievements in the Education Committee.

Every month, you will find an original self-portrait of one Scientific Committee member, who will respond informally to the same 5 questions. Here we go!

The guideline education and Cost-Conscious Healthcare (CoCoCare) programme was launched prior to the 5th EAN Congress in Oslo.