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sports champion, who can highlight the need for a healthy brain.
The hope is that 2014 will be the Brain Year in Europe, among its
highlights will be the construction of giant traveling brain. 2015
will become the Year of the Brain in the Americas and 2016 will
be the Year of the Brain in Asia.
Collaborations: Vice President Werner Hacke (Germany) is forming
a network of subspecialty brain organizations so that we can work
together at an international level and organize future congresses
with the participants of all the relevant subspecialties. The founding
meeting took place at the World Congress in Marrakesh in 2011
and this is being followed up by a survey identifying areas of mutual
interest and collaboration.
This effort has been complemented by the Chair of the Applied
Research committee, Donna Bergen (USA), who has updated and
reorganized the historical „research groups“. It turns out that most
of them were engaged not in research, but in education. Some
have dissolved, while others have grown and become their own
separate organizations such as the Parkinson’s group, yet others
have been created to address emerging areas such as the outcomes
and the palliative care groups.
Austrian neurologists are playing a leading role in all aspects of the
Congress. Eduard Auff will speak on the topic of Neurology in the
Age of Globalization at the Presidential session. Werner Poewe will
give one of the plenary sessions and many of the Austrian neurologists
will participate in the
invited lectures, seminars, symposia
and workshops. Similarly
they have a major role in the key committees.
Local Congress Organizing Committee:
Congress President: Eduard Auff
WFN President: Vladimir Hachinski
First Vice President: Werner Hacke
Secretary-Treasurer General: Raad Shakir
WFN Congress Supervisory Committee Chair: Werner Hacke
WFN Scientific Program Committee Chair: Donna Bergen
WFN Teaching Course Committee Chair: Wolfgang Grisold
OEGN President: Regina Katzenschlager
EFNS President: Richard Hughes
OEGN WFN delegate: Erich Schmutzhard
Local Finance Committee Chair : Elisabeth Fertl
Local Scientific Program Committee Chair: Werner Poewe
Local Education Program Committee Chair: Franz Fazekas
Local Social Program Arrangements
Committee Chair: Bruno Mamoli
Congress Scientific Program Committee
WFN OEGN/EFNS
Donna Bergen, USA, Co-Chair Werner Poewe, Austria, Co-Chair u
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