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- 1. IFCN Liaison Officer Report to European Chapter
- Change of Officers and Rules
- Financial Issues
- IFCN Sponsored Meetings
- Guidelines
- North American Chapter
- 2. Change of Officers
- Prof Johannes Noth resigned as ExCo Secretary
- 6 nominations received by deadline of 31.1.07; 4 accepted candidacy
- Ballot resulted in election of Prof Reinhard Dengler
- Prof Mark Hallets term as Editor-in Chief of Clin Neurophysiol ended 31/12/07
- ExCo received 9 nominations from various sources.
- Prof David Burke confirmed by ExCo as new Editor and started 1.1.08
- 3. Financial Issues
- For this fiscal period (2006-2010) each chapter will receive 100,000 USD for its activities. Includes North American Chapter.
- IFCN continues to support chapter and International congresses with start up funds and fellowships.
- 4. IFCN Sponsored meetings
- Consensus meeting on Electrophysiological Criteria in ALS Awaji Island April 7 07 Now published in Clin Neurophysiol
- Workshop on Clinical Neurophysiology was held in Bangalore, India on April 13-15, 2007
- Neurophysiological Monitoring Meeting was held in Montevideo, Uruguay on April 19-22, 2007
- Safety of TMS Siena Italy March 2008
- 5. IFCN Guidelines
- TMS Clinical utility (ed Chen) just appeared
- SEP (ed Cruccu) to be published
- ERP (ed Duncan) ready to be submitted
- VEP/ERG (ed Holder) In progress
- TMS How to do it (ed Siebner) In progress
- 6. North American Chapter
- The 3 North American Societies AANEM, ACNS and CSCN agreed to form NA Chapter.
- Chapter constitution and rules submitted to IFCN Rules Committee
- NA chapter accepted by ballot of all member societies
- Now there are 4 chapters : North America, Latin America, Asia-Oceanea and Europe
- This may require a consideration of change in IFCN rules on the nomination and election of officers in relation to geographical area.
- 7. Current IFCN ExCo 7 members
- President: Elected
- Past President
- Treasurer: Elected
- Secretary: Elected
- Editor-in-Chief
- Members-at-Large (2) Elected
- President and past president must be from different geographical areas
- Treasurer and Secretary must be from different geographical areas
- Members-at Large must be from different geographical areas and from Countries different from Pres, Past Pres, Treas and Sec.
- Elections each fiscal period: 1: President and Treasurer 2: Secreatary 3: Members at Large (2)
- Geographical areas are: 1: N and S. America, Australasia and Japan and 2: Europe, Asia (except Japan) and Africa
- IFCN ExCO is looking to change geographical area s to 4: N.America, Latin America, Asia-Oceanea and Europe (inc Middle East and Africa).
- 8. Possible options
- No change
- Expand ExCo to reflect chapters rather than geographical areas i.e. 4 members at large
- Rotate presidency through chapter areas
- Consider nomination of members at large by chapters
- 9. Principles of election to potentially expanded ExCo
- Voting should remain as it is with each society voting with its specified number of delegates
- IFCN ExCo elected members should contain representation from each geographical area
- IFCN ExCo members should retain a balance between geographical areas
- 10. Next International Congress
- 29 th International Congress of Clinical Neurophysiology (ICCN) will be held in Kobe, Japan from October 28th to November 1st , 2010.
- First announcement issued
- 11.
- 12. IFCN Statutes CHAPTERS 16.1 Chapters: On recommendation of the Executive Committee and the approval of the General Assembly, Chapters may be set up each to represent the member societies located in a particular region. Each Chapter is governed by it s own by-laws. Those by-laws are considered to be by-laws of the Federation. These by-laws must be compatible with these Statutes, reviewed by the Executive Committee and approved by General Assembly. The Federation Rules Committee serves as the Rules Committee of each Chapter.
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