Call to paediatric members: vote for new chair
Voting opens today for the new chair of EUSEP, the European Society for Emergency Paediatrics, a branch of EUSEM. A voting link will be sent to Paediatric members, the deadline to vote is Monday 14 October 18:00.
The nomination for the chair is:
Professsor Patrick Van de Voorde
Dear Members,
I have been involved in the paediatric section of EUSEM for many years now. I’ve seen it grow and thrive, developing into a proper society under the umbrella of EUSEM and a strong research branch via REPEM. This is the work of many highly committed people over the years and I find myself lucky to have been among them.
EUSEP is now at a crucial point in its young trajectory as we need to further enlarge our story and find a second generation of enthusiast colleagues to take over. I want to contribute to this as coming chair and pave the way for this future generation.
A society has an important tasks towards its members – and I tend to bring everyone involved into our ‘membership’- in terms of education, research, representation and advocacy. We again need to build capacity for all of this tasks and this is what I intend to do during my presidency so that we have a strong basis to then build on.
EM for children across Europe is provided in many different ways, a reality I understand and respect. Bringing all relevant actors together, and thus liaise with partner societies, is of the utmost importance and one of the clear tasks for the next board.
Finally, from its start EUSEP has been a special one within EUSEM: diverse, out of the box and young at heart. Let’s stay that way…
Truly yours
Patrick