Christophe Cognard created the ESMINT Congress which first edition was held in Nice in September 2009. He was Congress President in 2009 and 2010 then decided that he should not remain Congress President for life and proposed to have a new one every year. He remained Vice-Congress-President until 2014. He opened the ESMINT Congress to sister societies of neurology (ESO) and neurosurgery (EANS) in order to create a multidisciplinary congress of neurovascular diseases.
