General Assembly

ESMINT General Assembly 2024

The next General Assembly of ESMINT will take place at the Palais du Pharo Congress Center in Marseille, France on Wednesday, 4 September 2024, at 18.00 (CEST). This year, there will be the elections for the new Executive Board 2024-2026 as well as the election of the vacant Standing Committee Electronic Media Committee. Instructions will follow in due time.

ESMINT General Assembly 2023

The 2023 General Assembly of ESMINT took place at the Palais du Pharo Congress Center in Marseille, France on Monday, 4 September 2023, at 17.45 (CEST).

Please find hereafter the agenda:

Apologies for absence
2022 General Assembly Minutes
Treasurer’s report
General Secretary’s report
President’s report
Change to the constitution
Results of the election of the new Executive Committee
Congress President 2024
Vote on the Honorary Member for 2024
Any other business

The following persons were elected for the new Executive Committee 2023-2026:

ESMINT Network

Internal Affairs Committee Chair: Jan Gralla, Professor and Head of the Department for Diagnostic and Interventional Neuroradiology, Inselspital, University of Bern, Switzerland
Electronic Media Committee Chair: Since there were no applicants for this position, a chair will be elected at the next General Assembly.
WIN@ESMINT Committee Chair (Women In Neurointerventions): Franziska Dorn, Director of Neurointervention, Deputy Director of the Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Neuroradiology, University Hospital Bonn, Germany
EYMINT Committee Chair: Uta Hanning (1) & Johannes Kaesmacher (2) – joint candidacy (1. Attending interventional neuroradiologist, University medical center Hamburg – Eppendorf, Germany. 2. Junior attending interventional neuroradiologist, University Hospital Bern, Switzerland)

ESMINT Outreach

External Affairs Committee Chair: Laurent Spelle, Professor of Neuroradiology & Chairman, NEURI at Bicêtre Hospital, Paris-Saclay University, Paris, France
Eastern Countries Committee Chair: Ivan Vukasinovic, Head of the Neuroradiology Department at the University Clinical Center of Serbia, Belgrade, Serbia
Professional Liaison Committee Chair: Paolo Machi, Head of the Interventional Neuroradiology Unit, University Hospital Geneva, Switzerland

ESMINT Education

ECMINT Committee Chair: Adam Rennie, Consultant Interventional Neuroradiologist, Great Ormond Street Hospital and Queen’s Square, London, UK
EXMINT Committee Chair: Wim van Zwam, Interventional Radiologist, Maastricht University Medical Center, The Netherlands
Online Learning Committee Chair: Jan-Hendrik Buhk, Head of Department of Neuroradiology at Asklepios Hospital St. Georg, Hamburg, Germany
Examination Committee Chair: Matthias Gawlitza, Head of INR unit, University Hospital Leipzig, Germany
Fellowship with e-Fellowship Committee Chair: Luca Valvassori, Head of the Department of Neuroradiology, San Carlo Borromeo University Hospital, Milan, Italy

ESMINT Research

Guidelines Committee Chair: Tilman Schubert, Section head of Interventional Neuroradiology, University Hospital Zurich, Switzerland
Research & Publication Committee Chair: Aymeric Rouchaud, Professor of Interventional Neuroradiology, Department of Interventional Neuroradiology, Limoges University Hospital, France
New Product Introduction/Evaluation Committee Chair: Christian Taschner, Senior Physician, Department of Neuroradiology, University Hospital Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

Online voting (via the Election Buddy platform) for the elections for the Executive Committee positions started on 16 August. All Full Members in good standing were informed about the procedure by email.

If you are a Full Member of ESMINT and have not received the email from Election Buddy on 16 August, please get in touch with the ESMINT Office at office@esmint.eu.

Please consult the documents of the ESMINT General Assembly 2023:

The ESMINT General Assembly Notification 2023 (update) (published 60 days in advance)
The ESMINT General Assembly Agenda 2023 (update) (published 20 days in advance)
The ESMINT General Assembly Minutes 2023 (published after the GA)

ESMINT General Assembly 2022

The General Assembly of ESMINT took place at the Acropolis Convention Centre, Nice on Wednesday, 7 September 2022, at 17.45 (CEST).

The agenda was as follows:

Apologies for absence
2021 General Assembly Minutes
Treasurer’s report
General Secretary’s report
President’s report
Results of the election for the new Executive Board
Congress President 2023
Vote on the Honorary Member for 2023
Any other business

The following persons were elected for the Executive Board 2022-2024:

President: Zsolt Kulcsar, Zurich, Switzerland
General Secretary: Anne Christine Januel, Toulouse, France
Treasurer: Christian Taschner, Freiburg, Germany

Online voting (via the Election Buddy platform) for the elections for the Executive Board positions started on 18 August. All Full Members in good standing were informed about the procedure by email.

Please consult the documents of the ESMINT General Assembly 2022:

The ESMINT General Assembly Notification 2022 (published 60 days in advance)
The ESMINT Agenda General Assembly 2022 (published 20 days in advance)
The ESMINT General Assembly Minutes 2022 (published after the GA)

ESMINT General Assembly 2021

The 2021 General Assembly of ESMINT took place at the Acropolis Convention Centre, Nice & online on Wednesday, 8 September 2021, at 18.30 (CEST).

The agenda was as follows:

Apologies for absence
2020 General Assembly Minutes
Treasurer’s report
General Secretary’s report
President’s report
Change on the constitution in regards to floating membership year
Congress President 2022
Vote on the Honorary Member for 2022
Any other business

Please consult the documents of the ESMINT General Assembly 2021:

The ESMINT General Assembly Notification 2021 (published 60 days in advance)
The ESMINT Agenda General Assembly 2021 (published 20 days in advance)
The ESMINT General Assembly Minutes 2021 (published after the GA)

ESMINT General Assembly 2020

The ESMINT General Assembly 2020 took place online on 9 September 2020 at 6.30 PM CEST.

In 2020, elections were being held. Open positions that were up for re-election were:

Executive Board (September 2020 – September 2022):
- President
- General Secretary
- Treasurer
Standing Committees (September 2020 – September 2023)
- Rules Committee Chair
- Education Committee Chair
- Examination Committee Chair
- Guidelines Committee Chair
- Research Committee Chair
- Membership Committee Chair
- Multidisciplinary Committee Chair
- Professional Liaison Chair
- Publication Committee Chair
- UEMS Committee Chair
- Eastern Countries Committee Chair
- New Product Introduction/Evaluation Chair
- Ethics Committee Chair
- Electronic Media Committee Chair

Online voting for the elections for the Executive Board and Executive Committee started on 20 August, and all Full Members of the membership year 2020/2021 were informed about the procedure by email.

Please consult the documents of the ESMINT General Assembly 2020:

The ESMINT General Assembly Notification 2020 (published 60 days in advance)
The ESMINT Agenda General Assembly 2020 (published 20 days in advance)
The ESMINT General Assembly Minutes 2020 (published after the GA)

ESMINT General Assembly 2019

The ESMINT General Assembly took place on Wednesday 4 September 2019 at 18:30 in the main meeting room of the congress at the Acropolis Convention Center in Nice

Location:

Nice Acropolis Convention Centre
1 esplanade Kennedy
06300 Nice
France

Please consult the documents of the ESMINT General Assembly 2019:

The ESMINT General Assembly Notification 2019 (published 60 days in advance)
The ESMINT General Assembly Agenda 2019 (published 20 days in advance)
The ESMINT General Assembly Minutes 2019 (published after the GA)

ESMINT General Assembly 2018

The ESMINT General Assembly took place on Thursday, 6 September 2018 at 18:30 in the main meeting room of the congress at the Acropolis Convention Center in Nice.

The following positions have been elected:

President: Patrick Brouwer, Sweden
General Secretary: Jens Fiehler, Germany
Treasurer: Zsolt Kulcsar, Switzerland

ESMINT General Assembly 2017

The ESMINT General Assembly 2017 took place on 7 September 2017 at 18:30 in the main meeting room of the congress. The following ESMINT Standing Committee chairs have been elected:

Rules: Jan Gralla, Switzerland
Education: Shelley Renowden, UK
Examination: Tommy Andersson, Sweden/Belgium
Guidelines: Phil White, UK
Research: Francis Turjman, France
Membership: A.-C. Januel, France
Multidisciplinary: Laurent Spelle, France
Professional Liaison: Zsolt Kulcsar, Switzerland
Publication: Mohamed Aggour, France
UEMS: Alessandra Biondi, France
Eastern Countries: Stefanita Dima, Romania
New Product: Christian Taschner, Germany
Ethics: Maciej Szajner, Poland
Electronic Media: Jan-Hendrik Buhk, Germany

See more information about each Executive Committee chair and member.

At a glance: ESMINT's General Assembly

The General Assembly is the ruling body of the European Society of Minimally Invasive Neurological Therapy. It consists of all its members holding voting rights. Its specific duties are defined in the constitution and include the establishment of the society’s requirements, dues, and policies.

The General Assembly empowers the Executive Committee with responsibilities for managing the affairs of ESMINT.

Please note the following general schedule:

General Assembly Calendar

60 Days before the General Assembly
Distribution of an information letter containing a detailed list of positions to be elected.
30 Days before General Assembly
Deadline for members to submit agenda items to the General Secretary.
20 Days before General Assembly
The final agenda is published.