Scientific Meetings Sub-Committee

Chaired by Exec Member: (Meetings Officer – Xavier López)

Members:

Paulo Paixao (Portugal)
Anna Papa (Greece)
Will Irving (UK)
Elizaveta Padalko (Belgium)

Remit:

• Receive proposals for the ESCV annual meeting and present to Exec.
• Liaise with/advise annual conference organisers
• Receive proposals for workshops and present to Exec
• Liaise with and advise workshop organisers
• Keep meeting guidelines up to date

 

Communication, Training & Educational Resources Sub-Committee

Chaired by Exec Member: (Communications Officer – Mario Hönemann)

Members:

Maria Cabrerizo Sanz (Spain)
Hugo Sousa (Portugal)
Romina Salpini (Italy)

Suzanne Dudman (Norway)
Coretta van Leer (NL)
Paul Klapper (UK)
Gemma Clark (UK)
Dawit Meshesha (Ethiopia)
Berkin Hack (UK)
Mohamed Asmir (Sri Lanka)

 

Remit:

• Oversee website content
• Oversee regular newsletter
• Manage Twitter and other social media
• Receive and assess applications for Travel Grants for Annual Meeting and workshops
• Promote and assess ECDC Observerships
• Promote and assess Training grants
• Collate content from meetings/workshops as a resource on ESCV website
• Create educational resources for access by the public on particular hot topics in virology
• Organise occasional webinars on topics of interest
• Co-ordinate single topic papers/opinion pieces from ESCV
• Create FAQ’s on various topics in virology

 

Diagnostic Methods and Clinical Practice Sub-Committee

Chaired by Exec. Member: (Executive Member – Catherine Moore)

Members:

Annelies Riezebos-Brilman (NL)
Lene Neilsen (Denmark)
Arzu Sayiner (Turkey)
Karoline Leuzinger (Switzerland)
Sonia Maria Perez Castro (Spain)
Anna M. Eis-Hubinger (Germany)
Eleni Nastouli (UK)
Mert Ahmet Kuskucu (Turkey)
Kim Benschop (NL)
Emma Meader (UK)
Corinna Pietsch (Germany)
Andrés Antón Pagarolas (Spain)

Remit:

• Primary liaison point with JCV
• Co-ordinate development of consensus guidelines
• Create resources for clinical practice – e.g. collation of seminal papers on particular topics
• Quality assessment
• Maintain Reference reagents list and liaise with NEQAS/NIBSC/Paul Ehrlich Insitute/QCMD/Others?

 

Membership and Collaborations Sub-Committee

Chaired by Exec Member: (1^st Vice President – Annelies Riezebos-Brilman)

Members:

Kate Templeton (UK)
Arjun Bhugra (India/UK)
Atheeka Akram (Sri-Lanka)
Jamilu Abubakar Bala (Nigeria)
Marwan Albuhtori (UK)

Remit:

• Oversee membership list
• Promote ESCV membership
• Liaise with Council
• Foster collaborations with other Societies & Bodies (PASCV, ESCMID, ECDC, WHO) and including Societies in Developing countries
• Develop a searchable list of members expertise

 

Nominations and Awards

Chaired by Exec Member: (2^nd Vice President – Jérome Le Goff)

Members:

Judith Aberle (Austria)
Corine Geurts van Kessel (NL)
Maria Sao Jose Alexandre (PT)

Remit:

• Promote and Receive Annual award nominations for all awards
• Assess nominations and make awardee recommendations to Exec. Board
• Liaise with Industrial sponsors of awards