Tamás Dóczi Past Vice President, European Association of Neurosurgical Societies (EANS)
Jean Georges Executive Director, Alzheimer Europe
Bruno Vellas Principal Investigator, European Alzheimer’s Disease Consortium (EADC)
Mary G Baker
President, European Federation of Neurological Associations (EFNA)
Tamás Dóczi Past Vice President, European Association of Neurosurgical Societies (EANS)
Jean Georges Executive Director, Alzheimer Europe
Bruno Vellas Principal Investigator, European Alzheimer’s Disease Consortium (EADC)
Mary G Baker
President, European Federation of Neurological Associations (EFNA)
Mary Baker, MBE, is Patron and Immediate Past President of the European Parkinson’s Disease Association (EPDA). She is also President of the European Federation of Neurological Associations (EFNA), Vice President of the European Brain Council (EBC), Consultant to the World Health Organization (WHO) and Chair of the Working Group on Parkinson’s Disease formed by the WHO in May 1997. She is Director at Large for the World Stroke Association (WSA), former Patient Editor of the British Medical Journal (BMJ) – and now Chair of the BMJ Patient Advisory Group – and a member of the Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry Code of Practice ■
Arne Hagen
President, Stroke Alliance for Europe (SAFE)
Arne Hagen has been President of Stroke Alliance for Europe (SAFE) since its establishment in 2004. He is also a Board Member of the European Federation of Neurological Associations (EFNA) and President of the Norwegian Association for Stroke Survivors (LFS). Prior to his stroke in August 1997, he was Colonel in the Royal Norwegian Air Force. After 37 years of service in the air force he was medically discharged. His service in the air force included Aide de Camp for HM King Olav, Commanding Officer Bardufoss Air Force Station, Chief Foreign Liaison Office, Norway and Branch Chief NATO HQ England. ■
Wolf-Dieter Heiss
Past President, European Federation of Neurological Societies (EFNS)
Wolf-Dieter Heiss is Past President of the European Federation of Neurological Societies (EFNS), was Professor and Chairman of the Department of Neurology at the University of Cologne and Director of the Max Planck Institute for Neurological Research in Cologne (1985–2005). He has won numerous awards including the Berson-Yalow Award in 2002 and the Von Hevesy Medal 2005. He is a member of the American Neurological Association (ANA) (honorary member), the Stroke Council of the American Heart Association (AHA), the Society of Nuclear Medicine (SNM), the Société Française de Neurologie (honorary member) and the International Stroke Society (ISS), of which he was President from 1992 to 1996, among others. ■
Jacques L De Reuck
President, European Federation of Neurological Societies (EFNS)
Jacques L De Reuck is President of the European Federation of Neurological Societies (EFNS), which groups 41 national societies. He is also the European Director of the World Federation of Neurology (WFN). Professor De Reuck has been Professor of Neurology at the Ghent University Hospital (Belgium) since 1981. He was Chairperson of the Department of Neurology until 2004 and Director of the Ghent PET Centre until 1999. He is the author of more than 500 publications in international journals and books and has been the invited speaker at more than 60 congresses. ■
Gérard Said
Secretary General, European Neurological Society (ENS)
Gérard Said is Secretary General of the European Neurological Society (ENS), which he co-founded in 1986. He has been Professor and Chief of the Service of Neurology of the University Hospital of Bicêtre since 1987. Professor Said is also Director of the Research Group on Neuromuscular Disorders of the World Federation of Neurology (WFN), and between 1998 and 2000 he was President of the Peripheral Nerve Society (PNS). ■
