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Communications of the European Neurological Society February 2010 Topics
I. Register now for the Berlin Meeting and save on fees!
II. Hotel Accommodation in Berlin Accommodation in hotels of various price categories in Berlin have been reserved. For reservations for the 20th ENS Meeting in Berlin, Germany, you can book via the website of the ENS at (www.ensinfo.org), click Next Congress, then ENS meeting 2010. Full pre-payment by credit card (Visa or Mastercard) is mandatory if you reserve online. After a successful booking each participant will receive a written confirmation/invoice by regular mail. After 15 April 2010, hotel accommodation is subject to availability. For group reservations please contact: Congrex Travel AG
III. Book Low-Priced Flight to Berlin Meeting Online via an ENS Website The ENS is making it easy to find and book a low-priced flight through its relationship with the Star Alliance network. By booking online you can obtain a very attractive ENS Congress air fare to the 20th Meeting in Berlin. A discount of up to 20% is automatically granted on Star Alliance Member airlines, i.e. Lufthansa, Austrian Airlines, Swiss International Air Lines, Spanair, TAP Air Portugal, SAS, United Airlines, when booking online. A limited number of seats at these special all inclusive fares (round trip travel; taxes, fees and charges; fuel surcharge; seat reservation, etc.) are available on www.congrex.ch/ens2010 (click on ‘Travel to/from Berlin). For the direct link, click here.
IV. Interactive Case Presentations at the Twentieth Meeting of the ENS in Berlin, 19-23 June 2010 One of the concerns of the ENS is the active involvement of participants in the conduct of various sessions of its meetings. The Interactive Case Presentations, which will take place on Saturday, 19 June 2010, from 09.00-10.30, is an example of how participants in sessions can interact via an electronic voting system. Moreover, participants have the opportunity to present an interesting case of diagnostic or scientific interest. These sessions are conducted free of charge. If you wish to present a personal case at one of theses sessions, please send the case by email to (info@ensinfo.org). The ENS Administrative Secretariat will put you in contact with the chairperson. Titles of the sessions, names of the chairpersons, are given below. Common and uncommon movement disorders Neurocognitive disorders Peripheral neuropathy Pitfalls in neuroimaging Is it epilepsy? Multiple sclerosis
V. EAYNT Encourages Young Neurologists to Apply for a Poster-Round Co-Chair Over the years, the European Association of Young Neurologists and Trainees (EAYNT) has become increasingly involved in the activities of the ENS. The scope of this participation, and the intentions of the Association, are sketched below in a report written by Dr. Johann Sellner and Dr. Laszlo Sztriha of the EAYNT. ‘The European Association of Young Neurologists and Trainees (www.eaynt.org) is an independent European non-profit organisation aimed at representing young colleagues’ interests within major professional organisations. In addition, it promotes clinical and scientific excellence of its members. The EAYNT believes that discussion of personal scientific work at the European conference level is an important component in the education of a 21st century neurologist, and that poster presentations are ideal opportunities to meet this specification. One major step in this direction took place in 2009. With the support of the ENS Executive Committee, nomination of EAYNT colleagues as co-chairs for poster sessions at the ENS meeting in Milan was established. The intention of this Self-nominations are welcome, as well as suggestions to nominate young colleagues beyond the age of 35 by department heads. To apply, please send a one-page CV containing a list of five PubMed referenced papers as first- or co-author - along with your field of expertise - to laszlo.sztriha@kcl.ac.uk. The deadline for submission is 15 March 2010. Please feel free to contact us should you have any questions. Johann Sellner, EAYNT (Munich, Germany) and Laszlo Sztriha, EAYNT (London, UK).’
VI. ENS Fellowship Stipends 2011: 1st Deadline 13 May 2010 A research opportunity is waiting to be taken if you have an experimental or clinical project in neurology of your own design, and would like to carry it out during the year 2011. Capitalise on this unique chance by applying for a scholarship granted by the programme ENS Fellowship Stipends 2011. The first deadline for application is 13 May 2010. Fellowship terms: The European Neurological Society will support the scholarship holder for a period between 3 and 6 months. The monthly stipend amounts to Є 2,000. The scholarship is to be held at a host institution in Europe during the year 2011. ENS sponsors this programme to provide an opportunity for talented neurologists to participate in an exchange of scientific activities between originating and host institutions. It is aimed primarily at young neurologists contributing actively at ENS Meetings. Eligibility: Applicants must be less than 40 years of age, and affiliated with an academic neurological department. Applicants and/or home or host institution must be active at ENS meetings. The ENS invites applicants from European nations, as well as those outside Europe. Application: The following documents are required:
Application forms: Forms can be obtained online at (www.ensinfo.org). An original and five copies of each application must be sent to: Prof. Heinz Reichmann First submission deadline: 13 May 2010
VII. Joint Task Force Meeting of EFNS and ENS in Paris
This first Task Force Meeting is a result of the agreement of cooperation made between representatives of the EFNS and the ENS at a meeting which took place during the 13th Congress of the EFNS in Florence, Italy, 12-15 September, 2009, refer to the December 2009 edition of the Journal of Neurology; Communications of the European Neurological Society, VI. Meeting on Cooperation between the EFNS and ENS in Florence, J Neuro (2009) 256: 2118-2119.
VIII. Biographical Sketches of New Members of the ENS Executive Committee New members of the ENS Executive Committee were elected at the Society’s Business Meeting, which took place during the 19th ENS Meeting in Milan, Italy. These associates are: Evzen Ruzicka, Prague, Czech Republic; Aksel Siva, Istanbul, Turkey and Guido Stoll, Würzburg, Germany. Biographical sketches of these new Executive Committee members are given below. Professor Evzen Ruzicka
Evzen Ruzicka is also Vice President of the Czech Neurological Society, and is a member of the Neuropharmacological Society and the Movement Disorder Society. He is a member of several editorial boards, such as Czech and Slovak Neurology and Neurosurgery, Neuro-endocrinology Letters, Biogenic Amines and Neurologia i Neurochirugia Polska. Evzen Ruzicka has edited or co-edited several books, including the Gait Disorders volume of Advances in Neurology, and has published numerous articles covering Parkinson’s disease and other movement disorders. Professor Ruzicka’s research interests focus on, e.g. new tools for tremor analysis, the study of gait disorders and falls in Parkinson’s disease, as well as investigations on the structure of motor symptoms associated with this disorder. Professor Aksel Siva
Professor Siva was the president of the Turkish Neurological Society between 2003 and 2009. He served as Executive Committee member of ECTRIMS (European Committee on Treatment and Research in Multiple Sclerosis) between 2003-2006. He is currently a member of The International Medical and Scientific Board of at MSIF (Multiple Sclerosis International Federation) and, was a member of the Education Executive Committee of The World Federation of Neurology, and representative of Turkey as delegate at WFN between 2002 and 2009. He is on the editorial board of numerous journals, e.g. the Turkish Neurological Journal, Journal of Neurological Sciences and Journal of Headache and Pain. His main areas of interest and work focus on clinical neuroimmunology (Multiple Sclerosis and Neuro-Behcet’s Syndrome), as well as headaches and neuroepidemiology. Professor Guido Stoll
Returning to Düsseldorf, he received his Board Affiliation in Neurology in 1991 and his academic Habilitation in 1992. From 1992 to 2001, Guido Stoll was an attending neurologist and from 1996-2001 a Hermann- and Lilly Schilling Professor at Heinrich-Heine University, where he was also Head of the MS and Neuromuscular Unit and the EMG laboratory of this university. Since 2001, Guido Stoll is full Professor and Vice Chairman of the Department of Neurology, University of Würzburg, Germany, and Head of the Interdisciplinary Research Group ‘Neuroimaging and Stroke’. Since 2004, he is Vice Head of the Clinical Research Group for MS and Neuroimmunology. Professor Stoll’s research interests focus on diverse topics in the neuroscientific aspects of neurology such as: cellular and molecular magnetic resonance imaging, molecular mechanisms of thrombus formation in stroke, autoimmunity in the peripheral and central nervous system, as well as mechanisms of nerve degeneration and regeneration. He has recently published his research results on these topics in the journals: Science Signaling, Blood, Journal of Experimental Medicine, Brain and the Journal of Neuroscience.
EditorDr. Clay E. Reilly
European Neurological Society: http://www.ensinfo.org · info@ensinfo.org |
Evzen Ruzicka is from the Czech Republic. He studied in medicine in that country, receiving his M.D. degree in 1982. He then trained in neurology at Charles University’s Department of Neurology from 1982 to 1988. In 1986-87 and in 1992-93 he received fellowship grants from the French government and CNRS to pursue research in the clinical laboratories of neurochemistry and neurophysiology, and in the Department of Neurology, Hôpital de la Salpêtrière in Paris. In 1996 he became an Associate Professor at the Charles University in Prague. Since 1998 he is Director of the Movement Disorder Centre, General Faculty Hospital in Prague and since 2006 he is Chairman of the Department of Neurology of the Charles University.
Aksel Siva was born in Istanbul, Turkey. He graduated from the Istanbul University, Cerrahpaşa School of Medicine (M.D.1978), and completed his residency in neurology in the same institution in 1983. He is currently Professor of Neurology at the Department of Neurology, Istanbul University, Cerrahpaşa School of Medicine; where he is the Head of the Clinical Neuro-immunology Unit & Multiple Sclerosis Clinic, and Co-director of the Headache Clinic. He has worked as a visiting research fellow in the Departments of Neurology and Radiology (Neuroradiology), University of Massachusetts Medical School and St. Vincent Hospital, Worchester, Massachusetts, USA in 1982, and spent a sabbatical as a visiting scientist in the Departments of Neurology and Health Sciences Research (Clinical Neuroepidemiology), at Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA (1991-1992). 
Guido Stoll was born in Stuttgart, Germany. Upon the completion of his medical studies in that country, he immediately began to delve into projects concerned with experimental neurology. From 1983 to 1985, Guido Stoll was a Research Fellow (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft) in the Department of Neurology of the Heinrich-Heine University in Düsseldorf, Germany. There he received special training in neuroimmunology. Following these activities, he began his residency in neurology at Heinrich-Heine University. During this period of training in neurology, Guido Stoll was a Research Fellow (1987-1988) in the Department of Neurology of the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland.