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1st INVITATION TO THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF EUPSA
BARCELLONA, June 17 th, 2011
Dear Colleagues, Dear Friends, Dear Members of EUPSA,
The 12th European Congress of Paediatric Surgery organised by EUPSA - European Paediatric Surgeons´ Association – will take place in Barcelona, Spain.
This is the 1st official Invitation for the General Assembly of EUPSA 2011, which will take place at the Conference Centre on June 17th, 2011 at 12.30 p.m.
During the assembly there will be the election of the secretary and the president elect. Candidates, proposed by the EB are Dr Giovanna Riccipetitoni, Milan, Italy (secretary) and Prof. Zacharias Zachariou, Berne, Switzerland (president elect).
The General Assembly has the right to propose further candidates. Only candidates present during the General Assembly are eligible for election.
The definitive agenda, will be send out and published on the web site not later than 1 month before the congress.
PREM PURI JÜRGEN SCHLEEF
President of EUPSA Secretary
Minutes of the General Assembly of EUPSA
Berne, 2010
Welcome
The President of EUPSA, Prof. Prem Puri, welcomes all members of the European Paediatric Surgeons´Association for the Annual General Assembly. He is presenting the agenda, previously circulated to all members, which is approved by the GA without changes.
Minutes of the previous EUPSA General Assembly (Graz)
The minutes of the GA in Graz, published on the EUPSA web site, is accepted and approved by the GA.
Report of the President
The president of EUPSA, Prof. Prem Puri gives his report to the members of the GA. He gives thanks to Prof. Zacharias Zachariou for the organization of this meeting and his outstanding efforts. The number of participants and submitted abstracts has never been as numerous in the history of EUPSA besides when during the combined meeting in Graz. The President reports on the EUPSA / BAPS meeting and the successful organisation, not only on the scientific but also organisational aspects. He thanks Prof. Michael Höllwarth for these outstanding results. A letter from the BAPS president arrived to Prof. Puri in October 2009, in which the president expresses his gratitude to the organizers of the Graz meeting and reports on the proposal and agreement of the BAPS EB to re-organize a second common meeting in 2012. Rome was proposed as the localization for this meeting. Prof. Puri gives a brief report about the actual situation regarding the organisation. He is reporting on the decisions of the EB to install a new office: The network office with Prof. Agostino Pierro from London as first chairman. The president wishes everybody a wonderful and successful meeting.
Changes in Bylaws and Statutes
The president is presenting the last changes in the Bylaws and Statutes of EUPSA. These were already sent out to all members and published on the web site according to the general rules of the society. The GA accepts the changes.
Report of the Congress Chairman
Prof. Zachariou gives his report on the actual 2010 meeting of EUPSA in Berne. He thanks all members who were involved in the planning and the organisation. More than 500 participants are registered. He reports that all courses are fairly well booked. Up to date, the meeting is running well without any problems. Zachariou is expecting a positive balance.
Report of the Chairmen of the Offices
Scientific Office
Professor Ure informs the GA that 480 abstracts were submitted for the Berne meeting. The abstracts were sent anonymously to the abstract selection sub-committees. 12 abstracts were selected for the Young Investigators Award.
Out of the 480 submitted abstracts 289 were accepted. The total acceptance rate was 60% out of which 26% were papers and 34% posters. He thanks all the abstract scorers for the enormous work and effort to complete the scoring process. During the meeting of the scientific office the speakers for the 2011 lectures were selected. The speaker of the Duhamel lecture will be Prof. Rintala from Helsinki, European lecture Prof. M. Harrison from USA. For the Rehbein Medal, Prof. J. Grosfield was proposed. The details can be obtained from the Chairman. The members of the scientific office decided that in the future all authors of accepted papers and posters should inform the chairman of the scientific office about a withdrawal of their submission until 2 weeks after receiving the confirmation of acceptance via e-mail. Authors who withdraw their submission afterwards or who do not appear at the congress to present their paper or poster without substantial reason will be penalized and blocked from the EUPSA program for 2 years. The presentation of a paper by a co-author is possible and the chairman of the scientific office should be informed about the name of the presenter in time. Professor Ure informs the GA that Prof. Dick Tibboel and Prof. Michael Höllwarth finished their term. Numerous applications and suggestions of names were discussd by the members of the office. New members elected for the Scientific Office include Dr. George W. Holcomb from Kansas City, Dr. Simon Eaton from London, Dr. Leopold Martinez from Madrid and Dr. Tomas Wester from Stockholm.
Education Office
Hans Skari is presenting his report on the activity of the Educational office. There were more and more requests from organizers of workshops and seminars to the EUPSA for accreditation process. He informs that this accreditation could only be offered at meetings with a clear educational intention (i.e. not for national congresses etc.). The educational office organized a very successful low budget course in Bratislava, where lecturers were EUPSA members and their travel fees sponsored by EUPSA. Numerous courses were organised with EO accreditation. Hans Skari mentions contacts with the webmaster concerning the publication and announcements of a meeting calendar and the publication of lecture presentations on the web. This can be realised in the nearer future. In the office some changes of members were performed during the EO meeting in Bern. The new members are Y. Alayet, F. Becmeur, S. Hosie, N. Hotic and A. Saxena.
Network Office
Prof. A. Pierro, the chairman of the new Network Office gives a brief report on the aims and strategy of this office. The objectives of this office are to develop a data co-ordinating centre, in order to implement support and promote the development of networks in the field of ?Paediatric Surgery. The goal of the office is to provide data management and bio statistical support ?and consultation in the areas of design, execution, and analysis for?clinical and basic science studies.?The office shall assist and support EUPSA members in their ?research activity and shall promote the progress in research among paediatric surgeons in Europe. The office would also assist in the ?development of study materials, including protocols, study manuals and?forms. Prof. Pierro asks for the collaboration of all members of EUPSA and clinical centres to promote these activities. He is also asking for interested colleagues to become part of the office.
Webmaster
Prof Udo Rolle reports about the activity of the web master. The new web site is functioning very well in its basic functions, while other aspects (chat room) are not realized jet. Mrs Tamaro completes the congress calendar regularly, information for that is usually sent in by local organizers, societies and members. In the meantime there are some presentation of the EUPSA workshops visible on the web site. Nevertheless, not all authors of the workshops gave their agreement for publication on the net. The web site design is changed and the web site is controlled by the Webmaster, the secretary and Miss G. Tamaro. Prof. Rolle asks all members to contribute actively to update all information concerning offices and information on the web site.
Report of the Treasurer
Prof. Massimo Rivosecchi gives the report on the annual finances. Rivosecchi explains that this report was basically done by Prof. Zachariou to conclude the Graz meeting. The detailed numbers are available from the treasurer. The overall congress balance for Graz was 125 667,03 € (70 % - EUPSA/BAPS; 30 % - local organizer). 55% of the income was dedicated to EUPSA, while 45 % was the income for BAPS (according to the contractual agreements). All changes which were discussed concerning funding rules and expenses (lunches, courses) are included in the new manual, which is availably from the treasurer. Dr. Rivosecchi explains his ideas and plans for the future of the EUPSA bank accounts and the legal status. He tried in the past to get information regarding the different situations in European countries. He asked for a support by an international commercialist and will report on the results and propose a solution during the next meetings. The financial situation of EUPSA is stable - especially thanks to the outstanding result of the Graz meeting.
Report of the Internal Auditors
The accounts were audited by S. v. Bismark and G. Recepetitoni and the treasurers accounting was cleared to the General Assembly.
Report of the Secretary
Schleef gives a brief report on the activity of the secretary. In the last months the activity also included the membership fee administration. All contacts between members and EUPSA are now exclusively via the secretary’s office. A new mail server with a central E-mail address facilitates the communication between EUPSA and EUPSA members. Nevertheless the contact between members and the secretary depends on correctness of the available E-mail addresses. Schleef gives a brief report on the actual membership situation. EUPSA gained again 37 new members in the last 6 months. The payment of membership fees was more rapid than in other year, meaning that more than 50% of all members paid already their duties in 2010. Schleef mentions, that this is comparable to other international organisations. The office continues to exclude members who did not pay their duties for more than 3 years.
Any Other Business
No other business is presented.
The president, Prof. P. Puri is closing the GA.
Berne, June 4th, 2010
J. Schleef, Secretary
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