Organising committee

 

The organising committee is formed by members the board of the Belgium Association of Neurocience nurses with

Winny Depaepe as local Chair. She has been an EANN executive committee member for 16 years and for 12 years treasurer of EANN.

Eddy De Burck is the secretary of the BVNV and the EANN congress 2011.

Wim Coppens will take care about the registrations.

André Houtman is the current treasurer of EANN and he will do the abstract handling.

Together with the scientific committee, all members of EANN they will organise a tremendous congres.

Who are the members of the scientific committee?

Alexandra Bernhart-Just is a registered nurse, Diplom-Pflegewirtin (FH) nursing science and doctoral student (Dr. rer. medic) in nursing science at the Institute of Nursing Science, University of Witten/Herdecke, Germany. The topic of Bernhart-Just's doctoral thesis is about "To go on living or to die? Decision-making processes in chronically ill Swiss people". She examines why some chronically ill people decide not to go on living while others in comparable situations want to stay alive. Since 2000 Bernhart-Just is working as a nurse researcher at the Centre of Nursing Research and Development at the University Hospital Zurich, Switzerland. Her central topics are Neuroscience Nursing, Palliative Care, End-of-Life Care, End-of-Life-Decision Making and Assisted Suicide. In addition she was involved in the development and validation of the pain assessment instrument ZOPA (Zurich Observation Pain Assessment) for patients with neurologically induced communication problems. She works also as a lecturer in neuroscience nursing. At the moment she is involved in the development of a master of advanced studies in neuroscience nursing. 

 

Ase Humberset is a specialised nurse in Neuroscience nursing (clinical post graduate education) and is in the middle of my master’s degree (finish by the summer 2011). She is working as assistant head nurse at the Neurosurgery dept. Haukeland University Hospital in Bergen, Norway. She has been at this dept. for 12 years. She  works for the most with educating and developing her colleagues, some teaching and counselling. Her special interests are in implementing evidence based knowledge into practice, working strategic towards higher competence among the nurses and she is so lucky to be involved in a training/exchanging programme in Neurosurgery among residents and nurses between Addis Abeba, Ethiopia and Bergen, Norway.

 

Ingrid Poulsen, RN, PhD. Manager of the Research Unit, Department of Neurorehabilitation, TBI Unit, Copenhagen University Hospital, Glostrup. She has been in the field of neurorehabilitation since her graduation 5 years ago. Her interest is the clinical research both mono- and interdisciplinary, and her departments focus are clinical problems among patients with severe augured brain injury. Furthermore she conducts epidemiological research as all patients are included in clinical databases. She corporate with colleges in Scandinavia, and USA. 

 

Kate MCArdle, has been a board member of the British Association of Neuroscience Nurses since 1975 and plan to retire from this role in October 2010. SheI has worked in Neurosciences from 1974 till 2008 when she retired from work.  Latterly She was in charge of an expanding Neurosciences Intensive Care Unit.  Her role was both challenging and extremely satisfying and she was fortunate to be able to work as a clinician as well as manager throughout her career. Last year she was part of the scientific committee for the WFNN congress in Toronto.  This was an exciting role reading and selecting abstracts for the final programme. She is very happy to offer to assist people at the next EANN congress in Belgium with the language aspect of their abstract, presentation or slides. Contact her at: kate.mcardle@btinternet.com

 

Steering committee

Scientific committee

English assistance