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
ASSISTANT PRESIDENT
Dieter Haffner
Hannover Medical School, Hannover. Germany
E-mail address: Haffner.Dieter@mh-hannover.de
Year of appointment: 2019
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
OTHER COUNCIL MEMBERS
Augustina Jankauskiene
Vilnius University Hospital Santariskiu Klinikos Childrens Hospital
Vilnius. Lithuania
E-mail address : augustinajankauskiene@yahoo.com
Year of appointment 2018
Responsibilities: Dialysis WG liaison
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
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, diet task force
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, Newsletter
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
Martin Christian
Nottingham Children’s Hospital,
Nottingham. NG7 2UH. United Kingdom.
E-mail address : martin.christian@nuh.nhs.uk
Year of appointment: 2018
Responsibilities: ESPN website, Transplant WG liaison.
Max Liebau
University Hospital of Cologne
Koeln. Germany
E-mail address : max.liebau@uk-koeln.de
Year of appointment: 2018
Responsibilities: CAKUT WG liaison, Inherited renal disorders WG 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, Newsletter