ESMINT General Assembly

The 2026 General Assembly of ESMINT will take place at the Palais du Pharo Congress Center in Marseille, France on Wednesday, 2 September 2026, at 18:00 CEST.

Please find here the agenda:

1. Apologies for absence
2. Approval of the 2025 General Assembly Minutes
3. Treasurer’s report
4. General Secretary’s report
5. President’s report
6. Results of the election of the new Executive Board
7. Results of the election of the new Standing Committee Chairs
8. Approval of the appointment of the Executive Director
9. Congress President 2027
10. Vote on the Honorary Member for 2027
11. Any other business

Please consult the documents of the ESMINT General Assembly 2026:

The ESMINT General Assembly Notification 2026  (published 60 days in advance)
The ESMINT General Assembly Agenda 2026 (published 20 days in advance)
The ESMINT General Assembly Minutes 2026 (published after the GA, available only for members)

The following candidates are standing for election to the Executive Board for the term 2026 – 2028:

ESMINT Executive Board

• President: Christian Taschner, University Medical Center Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
• General Secretary: Luca Valvassori, San Carlo and San Paolo Hospitals, ASST Santi Paolo e Carlo, Milano, Italy
• Treasurer: Jan Gralla, Inselspital Bern, Bern, Switzerland

The following candidates are standing for election as Chairs of the Standing Committees for the term 2026–2029 (where there is more than one candidate, the candidates are listed in alphabetical order of surname):

ESMINT Education Cluster

• ECMINT Committee Chair:Adam Rennie, Great Ormond Street Hospital and Queen’s Square, London, UK
• EXMINT Committee Chair:
  • Petra Cimflova, Inselspital, University Hospital Bern, Bern, Switzerland
  • Wim van Zwam, Maastricht University Medical Center, Maastricht, The Netherlands
• Online Learning Committee Chair: Jan-Hendrik Buhk, Asklepios Hospital Group Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
• Examination Committee Chair: Matthias Gawlitza, University Hospital Jena / Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Jena, Germany
• Fellowship/e-Fellowship Committee Chair: Matthias Bechstein, University Hospital Hamburg Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

ESMINT Research Cluster

• Guidelines Committee Chair: Tilman Schubert, University Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
• Research & Publication Committee Chair:
  • Gabriel Broocks, Helios Medical, Center Schwerin (MSH University Campus) & MSH Medical School Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
  • Aymeric Rouchaud, Limoges University Hospital, XLIM, UMR CNRS 7252, University of Limoges, Limoges, France
• New Product Introduction/Evaluation Committee Chair: Paolo Machi, Geneva University Hospitals (HUG), Geneva, Switzerland

ESMINT Network Cluster

• Internal Affairs Committee Chair: Isabel Fragata, ULS São José & NOVA Medical School, Lisbon, Portugal
• Electronic Media Committee Chair:
  • Adrien Guenego, Erasme Brussels Hospital, Brussels, Belgium
  • Ali Khanafer, Klinikum Stuttgart – Katharinenhospital, Stuttgart, Germany
• WIN@ESMINT Committee Chair (Women In Neurointervention): Franziska Dorn, University Hospital Bonn, Bonn, Germany
• EYMINT Committee Chair:
  • Sophia Hohenstatt, Heidelberg University Hospital, Heidelberg, Germany
  • Anna Kyselyova (1) & Roland Schwab (2) – joint candidacy
    1. University Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland 2. Städtisches Klinikum Karlsruhe, University Hospital Magdeburg, Germany

ESMINT Outreach Cluster

• External Affairs Committee Chair:
  • Laurent Spelle, Paris-Saclay University, NEURI The Brain Vascular Center Bicêtre Hospital, Paris, France
  • Kamil Zeleňák, Jessenius Faculty of Medicine, Martin University Hospital, Martin, Slovakia
• Eastern Countries Committee Chair:
  • Audrius Sirvinskas, Vilnius Republican University Hospital, Vilnius, Lithuania
  • Ivan Vukasinovic, University Clinical Center of Serbia, Belgrade, Serbia
• Professional Liaison Committee Chair: Markus Möhlenbruch, Heidelberg University Hospital, Heidelberg, Germany

• Online voting via the Election Buddy platform opens on 14 August 2026
• Online voting closes on 2 September 2026 at 06:00 CEST
• All Full Members in good standing will be informed about the procedure via
  an automated email from the Election Buddy platform

NB: If you are a Full Member of ESMINT and do not receive an email from
Election Buddy by the end of the day on 14 August, please get in touch with the
ESMINT Office at office@esmint.eu.

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

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

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, available only for members)

The following persons were elected for the Executive Board 2024-2026:

The following persons were elected for the Electronic Media Committee 2024-2026:

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:

• 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, only available for members)

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, only available for members)

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

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.