Skip to main content

ESMINT General Assembly

The ESMINT General Assembly takes place annually on the first day of the ESMINT Congress.

ESMINT General Assembly 2024

Please find herewith the agenda of the next General Assembly of ESMINT, taking place at the Palais du Pharo Congress Center in Marseille, France on Wednesday, 4 September 2024, at 18.15 (CEST):

  1. Apologies for absence
  2. 2023 General Assembly Minutes
  3. Treasurer’s report
  4. General Secretary’s report
  5. President’s report
  6. Results of the election for the new Executive Board
  7. Results of the election of the new Chair of the Electronic Media Committee
  8. Congress Presidents 2025
  9. Vote on the Honorary Member for 2025
  10. Any other business

Elections

The following persons are standing for election for the new Executive Board and Chair of the Electronic Media Committee 2024-2026 (in alphabetical order of last name):

President: Anne Christine Januel, Toulouse, France

General Secretary: Christian Taschner, Freiburg, Germany

Treasurer:

  • Laurent Spelle, Paris, France
  • Luca Valvassori, Milan, Italy

Chair of the Electronic Media Committee:

  • Mohamed Aggour, London, UK
  • Adrien Guenego, Brussels, Belgium
  • José Carlos Rayón-Aledo, Alicante, Spain

Voting

Online voting via the Election Buddy platform will start on the 16th of August.

All Full Members in good standing will be informed about the procedure by email.

If you are a Full Member of ESMINT and do not receive an email from Election Buddy by the end of the day on 16th August, please get in touch with the ESMINT Office at office@esmint.eu.

Please consult the documents of the ESMINT General Assembly 2024:

The ESMINT General Assembly Notification 2024 (published 60 days in advance)
The ESMINT General Assembly Agenda 2024 (published 20 days in advance)
The ESMINT General Assembly Minutes 2024 (published after the GA)

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:

  1. Apologies for absence
  2. 2022 General Assembly Minutes
  3. Treasurer’s report
  4. General Secretary’s report
  5. President’s report
  6. Change to the constitution
  7. Results of the election of the new Executive Committee
  8. Congress President 2024
  9. Vote on the Honorary Member for 2024
  10. 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 Board positions started on 18 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:

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:

  1. Apologies for absence
  2. 2021 General Assembly Minutes
  3. Treasurer’s report
  4. General Secretary’s report
  5. President’s report
  6. Results of the election for the new Executive Board
  7. Congress President 2023
  8. Vote on the Honorary Member for 2023
  9. 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:

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:

  1. Apologies for absence
  2. 2020 General Assembly Minutes
  3. Treasurer’s report
  4. General Secretary’s report
  5. President’s report
  6. Change on the constitution in regards to floating membership year
  7. Congress President 2022
  8. Vote on the Honorary Member for 2022
  9. Any other business

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:

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:

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:

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:

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.