European Paediatric Neurology Society (EPNS)
Education, Promotion, Networking, Science for Paediatric Neurology

In 1995 the European Federation of Child Neurology Societies (EFCNS) evolved into an open society based on individual membership; the European Paediatric Neurology Society (EPNS), with English as the official language. The EPNS constitution and bylaws was registered in France in December 1996.

 

Click a section below to view our history.

Founders of the EPNS
Peter Barth, The Netherlands
Co Begeer, The Netherlands
Gösta Blennow, Sweden
Jaime Campos-Castello, Spain
Victor Dubowitz, UK
Philippe Evrard, Belgium
Stuart Green, UK
Franco Guzzetta, Italy
Folker Hanefeld, Germany
Shaul Harel, Israel
Ivan Lesny, Czech Republic
Hans Lou, Denmark
Dietz Rating, Germany
Yavuz Renda, Turkey
Jan Rotteveel, The Netherlands
Wojcieh Sluzewski, Poland
Henri Szliwowski, Belgium
Marc Tardieu, France
Franco Vassella, Switzerland

EPNS Presidents
1998 Paul Casaer
2002 Paul Casaer
2006 Colin Kennedy
2010 Lieven Lagae
2014 Lieven Lagae
2018 Sameer Zuberi
2022 Kevin Rostasy
2026 Anna Jansen
EPNS Treasurers
1998 Dietz Rating
2002 Dietz Rating
2006 Willem Arts
2010 Florian Heinen
2014 Florian Heinen
2018 Michel Willemsen
2022 Michel Willemsen
2026 Dewi Bakker
EPNS Secretaries
1998 Jan Rotteveel and Colin Kennedy
2002 Mårten Kyllerman and Colin Kennedy
2006 Ingeborg Krägeloh-Mann and Helen Cross
2010 Banu Anlar and Peter Baxter
2014 Nina Barisic and Finbar O’Callaghan
2018 Dana Craiu and Rob Forsyth
2022 Rob Forsyth and Dimitrios Zafeiriou
2026 Kevin Rostasy and Pavel Kršek
EPNS Chairs of the Scientific & Research Committee
2002 Eugen Boltshauser
2006 Alexis Arzimanoglou
2010 Ingeborg Krägeloh-Mann
2014 Linda DeMeirleir
2018 Barbara Plecko
2022 Barbara Plecko
2026 Dimitrios Zafeiriou (Chair Scientific Committee)
Nadia Bahi-Buisson (Chair Research Committee)
EPNS Chairs of the Education & Training Committee
1998 Brian Neville
2002 Brian Neville
2006 Oebele Brouwer
2010 Richard Newton
2014 Coriene Catsman-Berrevoets
2018 Coriene Catsman-Berrevoets
2022 Dana Craiu
2026 Dana Craiu
EPNS Chairs of the Advocacy & Collaboration Committee
2022 Anna Jansen
2026 Ming Lim
EPNS Chairs of the Membership, PR and Website Committee
2010 Colin Kennedy
2014 Sameer Zuberi
2018 Finbar O’Callaghan
2022 Jean-Pierre Lin
2026 Kathleen Gorman
EPNS Chairs of the Climate Change & Sustainability Committee
2026 Tessa Wassenberg
Editor-in-Chief, European Journal of Paediatric Neurology (EJPN)
1997–2004 Victor Dubowitz
2004–2005 Paul Casaer
2005–2015 Lieven Lagae
2015–2020 Sameer Zuberi
2021–present Dimitrios Zafeiriou

EPNS Honorary Members

Awarded in 2005
Jean Aicardi
Victor Dubowitz
Yukio Fukuyama
Neil Gordon
Bengt Hagberg
Gilles Lyon
Franz Schulte

Click here to watch a video of the ceremony in Gothenburg

Awarded in 2009
Peter Barth
Paul Casaer
Philippe Evrard
Folke Hanefeld
Marten Kyllerman
Sanda Magureanu
Brian Neville
Awarded in 2015
Eugen Bolthauser
Ovar Eeg-Olofsson
Ilona Gyorgy
John Stephenson
Marc Tardieu
Awarded in 2019
Colin Kennedy
Richard Newton
Raili Riikonen
Awarded in 2023
Coriene Catsman-Berrevoets
Linda de Vries
Mary King
Sona Nevsimalova
Maja Steinlin

EPNS Congresses

Year Location
1995 Eilat, Israel
1997 Maastricht, The Netherlands
1999 Nice, France
2001 Baden-Baden, Germany
2003 Taormina, Italy
2005 Gothenburg, Sweden
2007 Kusadasi, Turkey
2009 Harrogate, United Kingdom
2011 Cavtat, Croatia
2013 Brussels, Belgium
2015 Vienna, Austria
2017 Lyon, France
2019 Athens, Greece
2022 Glasgow, United Kingdom (postponed due to Covid-19 global pandemic)
2023 Prague, Czech Republic
2025 Munich, Germany
2027 Barcelona, Spain
2029 Stockholm, Sweden

Research Meetings

Year Location
2008 Tuebingen, Germany
2010 Lyon, France
2012 Beuggen, Germany
2014 Bucharest, Romania
2016 Essen, Germany
2018 Alicante, Spain
2020 Cancelled due to Covid-19 global pandemic
2021 Fully virtual
2024 Ljubljana, Slovenia
2026 Thessaloniki, Greece
2028 Rome, Italy
2030 Paris, France

Special thanks to our EPNS Honorary Members Professor Victor Dubowitz and Professor Colin Kennedy for their help in compiling this webpage.