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New European Society against stroke founded: The European Stroke Organisation (ESO)

The new Paneuropean society of stroke researchers, national and regional stroke societies and lay people organisations has been founded on December 16, 2007, at the University of Heidelberg, Germany. The organisation is called European Stroke Organisation (ESO) and has been formed as a merger of two previous Stroke related associations, the European Stroke Council (ESC) and the European Stroke Initiative (ESO).

The ESO had been a non-membership organisation, composed of delegates of two European Neurological societies and the ESC. It had been extremely successfully in organizing yearly stroke summer schools, sponsoring a European Master of Stroke medicine program together with the Donau University in Krems, Austria, organising yearly symposia on stroke controversies, implementing standards for stroke care and stroke units in Europe and, most importantly, providing European guidelines for the management of ischemic stroke (1999, 2003), translated into more than ten languages including Chinese and Russian, and for hemorrhagic stroke (2006). The update of the ischemic stroke recommendations is expected for spring 2008.

All these activities will be carried on under the new organization. More than 40 founding members from all parts of Europe attended the founding ceremony, and another 150 stroke physicians from 25 different countries had identified themselves a founding members by writing. A interim managing executive committee has been nominated and will hold office until the first official election will be held during the European Stroke Conference in Nice, France, in May 2008.

The interim executive committee of the ESO is chaired by Professor Werner Hacke, chairman of the department of Neurology in Heidelberg, Germany, the former president of both ESC and ESO. Other members include Prof. Michael Brainin, Austria (Secretary), Prof Bo Norrving, Sweden, Prof. Ken Lees, Glasgow, Prof Didier Leys, France and Prof Rolf Schneider, Germany (Treasurer).