The ESPN Council comprises the President, the Assistant President, the Treasurer and 8 ordinary councillors, who between them are responsible for the various Council portfolios as listed below.
Ordinary councillors serve a 3-year, non-renewable term. Vacancies are announced via ESPN member communications. Candidates must have the written support of two ESPN members. ESPN members vote to select their preferred candidates according to the number of vacancies. In the interests of broad representation on Council, where there is more than one candidate from the same country, only the top-ranked candidate can be appointed to Council.
Current ESPN Council
PRESIDENT
Rezan Topaloglu
Hacettepe University Faculty Of Medicine
Hacettepe Mh., 06230 Ankara. Turkey
E-mail address: rezantopaloglu@hacettepe.edu.tr
Year of appointment: 2019
Additional responsibilities: IPNA-ESPN Junior Masterclass; Immune mediated disorders WG liaison; Training grants; Liason to JAPN; ESPN 2030; Transition
ASSISTANT PRESIDENT
Dieter Haffner
Hannover Medical School, Hannover. Germany
E-mail address: Haffner.Dieter@mh-hannover.de
Year of appointment: 2019
Additional Responsibilities: Inherited Renal Disorders WG Liaison; Liason to all working group Activities and reports; Liason to ASPN; ESPN 2030
TREASURER
Jun Oh
Department of Ped. Nephrology
Center for Obstetrics and Paediatrics Medical Center
Hamburg/Eppendorf. Germany
E-mail address : j.oh@uke.de
Year of appointment: 2018
Additional Responsibilities: Liason to ASPN; Liason to JAPN; ESPN 2030; Transition
OTHER COUNCIL MEMBERS
Aysun Karabay Bayazıt
Çukurova University, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Pediatric Nephrology
Adana, Turkey
E-mail address : akbayazit@gmail.com
Year of appointment: 2020
Responsibilities: Advisory board of the European renal best practice (ERB) by ESPN; CKD-MBD WG liaison; Mentoring Program; Academic issues – Research Grants evaluation; Relation with National Societies for Pediatric Nephrology; Transition
Dorota Drozdz
Department of Pediatric Nephrology and Hypertension, Jagiellonian University Medical College
Krakow, Poland
E-mail address : dadrozdz@cm-uj.krakow.pl
Year of appointment: 2020
Responsibilities: EDTA-dialysis and nurses, pharmacists; Nutrion Task Force; Academic issues – Research Grants evaluation; Liason to patient organizations; Transition
Evgenia Preka
Southampton University Children’s Hospital, Tremona Road, Southampton
Hampshire, UK
E-mail address : evgenia.preka@gmail.com
Year of appointment: 2020
Responsibilities: Young Nephrology Network; Newsletters/Social Media; Mentoring Program; Website; Training grants; History Task Force; Transition
Fabio Paglialonga
Fondazione IRCCS Ca’ Granda- Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico
Milan, Italy
E-mail address: fabio.paglialonga@policlinico.mi.it
Year of appintment: 2021
Responsibilities: Dialysis WG Liaison; Young Nephrology Network,
George Reusz
Semmelweis University, First Department of Pediatrics
Budapest, Hungary
E-mail address : reuszgs@gmail.com
Year of appointment: 2020
Responsibilities: Relation with national societies for pediatric nephrology
Jerome Harambat
Hôpital Pellegrin-Enfants, University of Bordeaux
Bordeaux, France
E-mail address : jerome.harambat@chu-bordeaux.fr
Year of appointment: 2021
Responsibilities: Transplantation WG Liaison; ERKNet EGs Liaison
Michiel Schreuder
Radboud University Medical Center
Nijmegen, the Netherlands
E-mail address: michiel.schreuder@radboudumc.nl
Year of appointment: 2020
Responsibilities: World kidney day activities; Newsletters/Social Media; CAKUT WG Liaison; ESPN 2030
Stella Stabouli
Aristotle University
Thessaloniki, Greece
E-mail address : sstaboul@auth.gr
Year of appointment: 2021
Responsibilities: Academic issues – Research Grants evaluation; Training grants; Liason to patient organizations