Ultrasound Section

Terms of Reference

The EUSEM Ultrasound Section will work with and under the direction of the EUSEM Executive in achieving the overall aims and objectives of the society.

Role of the Section

The section aims to be truly representative of the scope of Emergency Medicine and more specifically Emergency Ultrasound as practiced in the European Emergency Medicine Community.

Objectives

In addition to the general objectives of EUSEM, the objectives of this section are:

  1. Develop a European Curriculum for Emergency Ultrasound
  2. Establish guidelines and policies
  3. Provide a forum for discussion of Emergency Ultrasound in Europe
  4. Organize and deliver basic and advanced Ultrasound Courses
  5. Organize focused courses on specific topics (pre-hospital, pediatric, disaster, etc)
  6. Develop Ultrasound-based material for the European Exam
  7. Support US training in limited resources countries or countries without an established US training program by organizing local courses
  8. Promote and co-ordinate research throughout Europe in Emergency Ultrasound
  9. Establish partnership with other worldwide recognized POCUS networks/groups/societies, in order to expand US education and training in a unified international format
  10. US Courses accreditation

The Ultrasound Section will work within the regulations and bylaws of EUSEM. It will send an annual report to the EUSEM Council as well as a plan of activity for the following year.

Our planned activities for 2022 are:

  1. Development of the European US Curriculum
  2. Organize basic and advanced courses
  3. 2 webinars in collaboration with WINFOCUS (April-May 2022)
  4. Support Ukrainian colleagues on POCUS topics remotely

Meetings

The annual meeting of the section will be held during the annual EUSEM congress. Tele-meetings will be organized during the year if required.

Membership of Section

All members of the Section must be current EUSEM members and annually renew their membership while being a member of the US Section.

In order to represent European Emergency Medicine, the Section will have at least one person from each country that is allied to EUSEM.

All members of the Ultrasound Section will have voting rights in electing a smaller Executive Group. The wider group will be involved in discussions and developments and be encouraged to contribute to all aspects of the areas they have experience in.

Executive Group

This group will consist of at least six members: Chair, Chair-Elect, Treasurer, Research Director, Educational Director and Secretary.

The President of EUSEM will be an ex-officio member.

This group, along with the Chair, will be subject to re-election every three years.

Members

Belgium

Leto, Riccardo
Raemen, Hannelore

Denmark

Laursen, Christian,
Posth, Stefan

Germany

Breitkreutz, Raoul
Dissman, Patrick
Hogan Barbara

Greece

Polyzogopoulou, Effie

Italy

Cibinel, Gian
Cortellaro, Francesca
Parri, Niccolò

Malta

Borg, Konrad

United Kingdom

Atelsski, Zeki
Arora, Mohit
Connolly, Jim
Harris, Tim
Michael, Kiuber
Murali, Kalyana
Weerasinghe, Asoka
Żmijewska-Kaczor, Olga

Switzerland

Horn, Rudolf
Osterwalder, Joseph
Tabakovic, Senad

Turkey

Erdenun, Erol
Girisgin, Sadik (Research)
Ucak, Umut,
Özlem, Dikme
Ünlüer, Erol

Romania

Golea, Adela

Saudi Arabia

Hariri, Hani (Curriculum)
Pasha, Farooq

United States

Hoffman, Beatrice
Teran, Felipe

Sweden

Muhr, Christopher

Netherlands

Reitveld, Vincent

Spain

Villen, Tomas

Israel

Najib, Nasa

France

Le Conte, Phillipe
Petrovic, Tomii

Croatia

Soric, Masa

Slovenia

Bajic, Slaven

Requirements to join the Section

All colleagues with a special interest on emergency ultrasound, who are interested in contributing towards the objectives of the section and fulfill EUSEM membership requirements, are welcome to join the section.

It is expected that members of the section:

1) will be fully paid-up members of EUSEM

2) submit a brief CV and evidence of experience/expertise in their field

3) commit to three years as a member of the Section

All members need to be ratified by the EUSEM Executive.

Contact Information

If you are interested in applying to join the section, please contact the Chair:

Effie Polyzogopoulou

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To be accepted into the Section, you will need to be a member of EUSEM. If you are not yet a member, please apply here.

Co-Chair: Senad Tabakovic

Board Liaisson: 

Christoph Dodt, EUSEM Vice-President