EUREPA e-newsletter 3 / 2007
Dear members of Eurepa, dear friends,
The year 2007 is coming to an end soon, and it has been a very active year for Eurepa, and one that brought about many changes. I would like to take this opportunity to summarize the most important ones to you.
Many new individual members (44) were accepted at the two meetings of the Executive committee, and also the ILAE chapters of Bulgaria and Cyprus joined Eurepa this year, following Finland at the end of 2006. WELCOME!
Several new Eurepa trainers were certified in Africa, augmenting the list of Eurepa trainers to 101 trainers from 47 countries, and now also including three trainers who are EEG technicians. Congratulations!
In July, in Singapore, long-term Eurepa Chair and founder Prof. Peter Wolf resigned from his office, and was replaced by Prof. Giuliano Avanzini, also a founding member of Eurepa. It is with deep gratitude that we say good-bye to Prof. Peter Wolf, but we also extend a hearty welcome to Prof. Giuliano Avanzini!
A General Assembly was also held in Singapore, on July 11, 2007: Besides brand new information on the change of chairs, it also brought about changes to the Eurepa statutes. The minutes of the General Assembly have been sent out to all members by postal mail and should be reaching you soon. In case they don't, maybe you should use this opportunity to update your postal (and email) address. A short email to petra@epilepsy-academy.org will suffice, and we can reach you again!
The next General Assembly will take place at the European Epilepsy Congress 2008 in Berlin, Germany.
The presentations of the breakfast seminars “Discussion on seizure related automatisms”, held at the International Congress on Epileptology in Singapore and organized by Executive Board member Prof. Maria Paola Canevini, can be found accessible to members on our website www.epilepsy-academy.org, on the VIREPA e-learning platform. If you do not already have a login & password, just register as a guest and we will automatically upgrade you to "user" and "member" status on the platform.
For the first time, Eurepa co-organized two new onsite courses in 2007, in which many members participated: the 1st Migrating Course on Epilepsy in Babe, Serbia, and the 1st Baltic Sea Summer School on Epilepsy, which took place in Druskininkai, Lithuania. Both courses were very successful, receiving very good evaluations, and will be repeated every year in another host country.
The 2nd Migrating Course on Epilepsy will take place in Trakai, Lithuania, June 1-8, 2008 - for information please see the website.The 2nd Baltic Sea Summer School on Epilepsy will be hosted in Denmark, from August 31- September 4, 2008 (details yet to come). Please check our website.
VIREPA - the Virtual Epilepsy Academy also saw the start of two new blended distance edcuation courses (pilot projects in Neuroimaging and Clinical Pharmacology & Pharmacotherapy) along with the repetition of the 'older' favorites:
- Neuroimaging was launched in Singapore and now has 19 participants; this pilot project will end shortly on December 17, 2007.
- Clinical Pharmacology & Pharmacotherapy also began with a presence phase in Singapore, running until March 2008 with 14 participants involved.
- EEG basic II: a very fully booked second course with 29 students started in September and will end in March of 2008.
- Genetics IV: a fourth course started on October 15 with 20 participants and will run until the end of May 2008.
A Pan-European Train-the trainers course in English will take place from October 29 - November2, 2008, in Malta. Chapters with none or very few certified Eurepa trainers will be asked to nominate candidates.
2007 also saw the launch of this e-bulletin service and a new website design of Eurepa. The website www.epilepsy-academy.org offers information about Eurepa and its many activities, news, distance and onsite courses, network centers, trainers, accredited courses, the European Certification in Epileptology for Medical Doctors, etc.
The website also provides a calendar of events and announcements, among them for example the new Course on Epilepsy Surgery, taking place March 18-23 of next year in Brno, the Czech Republic, organized by the ILAE-CEA, Prof. Cigdem Özkara (cigdemoz@istanbul.edu.tr).
Many of you have paid your annual membership dues of Euro 20 (i.e. Euro 10,- for juniors up to 35), thank you. Some of you still need to do so - please remember to transfer the fee to our bank account or supply/transmit current credit card data to the office. You can find the form on the website under ‘About us_membership’ and in the document center.
On behalf of all of us from Eurepa, I send you Season's Greetings and best wishes for a good start into the year 2008! May it be a prosperous and fulfilling one for you and for Eurepa! I hope to see many of you in Berlin next year!
Best regards and sincerely,
Petra Novotny, MPH
Assistant Office Manager
Please don’t hesitate to contact me in case of questions, suggestions, ideas, contributions etc. You can reach me via email at petra@epilepsy-academy.org, Fax +49 521 144-4311, Tel.: +49 521 144-4346, or at the Eurepa Office, Maraweg 21, D – 33617 Bielefeld, Germany.
Bank account: COMMERZBANK Bielefeld, Germany, BLZ 480 400 35, IBAN: DE09 4804 0035 0511 2206 00, Swift code: COBADEFF, account no. 51 12 206 00, “charges to the account of the orderer”.
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