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From the EAN Board

Submitted by Lorenzo on Sun, 12/27/2009 - 10:33

So... who’s in the new board?
The EAN elections took place in Stockholm on 27th October 2009, at the EAN Annual General Assembly, during the 3rd ESCAIDE. The positions that were open for candidates were the ones of the president, the vice president, the deputy secretary and the two treasurers.

The new EAN board composition follows:
President: Lorenzo Pezzoli
Vice president: Ioannis Karagiannis
Treasurer (2 positions): Christopher Williams, Helen Bernard
Secretary: Gerd Falkenhorst
Deputy Secretary: Ariane Halm

Lorenzo, Christopher and Gerd were already in the board, so there’s an interesting balance between new and old “boardies”, as well as between the Mediterranean and the North of Europe.

So, who is actually on the board? What do they look like? What’s their relationship to EPIET?

Lorenzo – I am a vet by training. During my EPIET fellowship (Cohort 12) I was based in London at the Centre for Infections. In my free time, when I am not chairing the EAN board, I like photography and sometimes I am also a consultant for WHO mainly working on the evaluation of immunisation campaigns.

Ioannis - I was based at the RIVM in the Netherlands for my EPIET fellowship (Cohort 12). Since then, I have been working at the Hellenic Centre for Diseases Control and Prevention in Athens.

Chris - After studying physics and microbiology as an undergraduate, I trained as a doctor in south-east London and then worked in general internal medicine and infectious diseases in hospitals in London and southern England. I then undertook public health training in the East of England (2001-2006), specialising in health protection, before entering the EPIET programme in 2006. Areas of publication and research include meningitis epidemiology, mass event surveillance, influenza, rotavirus epidemiology, and psittacosis. I am currently a consultant in communicable disease control in the East of England (mainly Norfolk, for those that know). I am married with two children and like walking in the country, bird-watching and looking at the sea. I also play the guitar badly and have been known to sing on occasion.

Helen - Before I became a PAE fellow in Bavaria from 2006-2008 I worked as a physician in Internal Medicine/Infectious Diseases in Berlin. During the past year I have been dealing with Noro, Salmonella, Q fever, and the inevitable influenza at RKI’s Gastrointestinal Infections, Zoonoses and Tropical Infections Unit.

Gerd - A medical doctor by training, I joined EPIET in 2004 (cohort 10) after many years of working in different areas of clinical medicine and tropical public health. My EPIET training at Statens Serum Institut in Copenhagen was a great experience, and I got stuck there to do a PhD in epidemiology. In my spare time I am either a king or a robber (as instructed by my girlfriend*s lovely daughter), running through the park or sprawling on the couch reading.

Ariane - My background is in pharmacy and before diving into epidemiology I had some very interesting years working on the humanitarian side of this field. Last October I finished EPIET (cohort 13) at the Centre for Infections in London, and have now started working for EpiConcept.

And the EAN Webmaster
Florian - Before I accidentally fell into a time vortex that catapulted me into the 20th century, I was member of the local nobility in a small hamlet in Germany. Arriving here, I complemented my MSc Biology (Munich) with an MSc Epidemiology (Edinburgh) and embraced cohort 12 as German FETP at RKI (Berlin) in 2006. My journey took me to the State Health Department of Rhineland Palatinate (a German State) where I head the Infectious Diseases Unit. My beloved comrade Lorenzo asked me to "do the website", so I became the new webmaster, though I prefer web-janitor. Accessible under http://www.epietalum.net it is waiting for your contributions!

EAN Membership
EAN is currently comprised of 243 members. All graduates and current fellows of European Field Epidemiology Training Programmes can join the EAN. External applications from colleagues working in public health epidemiology are also very welcome; they need to be endorsed by 2 EAN members. If you want to join, please send an email to eanboard@gmail.com to request the application form. Our statutes specify that external members may not exceed 10% of the regular members, therefore there is a waiting list for external members.

EAN membership fees
The annual membership fee is €20. New fellows are exempt from this for the first year of their fellowship. Starting from the second year of fellowship every member should pay the fee.
We kindly ask you to contact the EAN Treasurers at eanboard@gmail.com, in case you want to get information on your membership payment. You should all have received a reminder about this: so please, make arrangements for overdue payments if you have not already done so. We also encourage you to pay for more than one year so to secure your membership for a longer period of time and avoid duplicating bank charges.

We are currently in a transition period from the old board to the new board. For the time being we are using our bank account in Malta which was managed by Gianfranco Spiteri, the former EAN Treasurer Name of Bank: HSBC Malta Account Holder: Epiet Alumni Network Account number: 85110443451 Sort code: 44853 IBAN: MT41MMEB44853000000085110443451 BIC/Swift: MMEBMTMT Please indicate your name and membership year as reference in the bank transfer and also send an email to eanboard@gmail.com to inform us about your payment (sometimes names are not correctly transmitted with the transfer).