european academy of neurology

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:

Balthasar Schaap is Secretary General of the European Federation of Neurological Associations (EFNA).

by Gustave Moonen and Jacques de Reuck EFNS and ENS are very pleased to announce their upcoming Joint Congress in 2014: The congress will take place at the Istanbul Congress Centre and start on Saturday May 31 and end on… Continue Reading

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 derivation of the word Europe is uncertain. It may come from a Phoenician word meaning “the west” or another meaning “of a white or fair aspect”. It has nothing to do with the mythical maiden Europa who was abducted from Phoenicia (the region around modern Lebanon) by Jupiter disguised as a bull: she rode on his back to Crete where in due course she gave birth to Minos. Homer used the word Europe to define the area around Greece.

Heinz Reichmann is President of the European Neurological Society and Professor of Neurology at the TU Dresden, Germany. Richard Hughes is President of the European Federation of Neurological Societies and Emeritus Professor of Neurology at the King's College London and Honorary Professor at the University College London, UK.

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:

In early February 2012 we have announced on www.efns.org the publication of a paper by the EFNS and ENS Presidents, Richard Hughes and Zohar Argov. This article is about the establishment of the European Academy of Neurology (EAN), an organisation… Continue Reading

The right size for the European Neurology Congress
by Richard Hughes, EFNS President The British geneticist JBS Haldane began his 1928 essay “On being the right size” by illustrating the impossibility of fairy tale giants. He wrote “consider a giant… Continue Reading