04/13/2022
The Annual Meeting of ECHSA 2022 will be changed to a purely web based, virtual meeting.
Dear ECHSA Members and friends,
During planning of this year’s meeting, we had hoped to be able to gather in the traditional fashion with a physical meeting in springtime Athens. But we also planned for a hybrid event with a possibility to participate on the same virtual platform, that worked so well last year. This we did realizing, that Covid and travel restrictions could still be with us.
As registrations for the physical meeting were slow to come and many of the invited faculty responded that they would only participate virtually, we asked you last week to let us know, if you intended to join the meeting in Athens. Your answers made it clear that the meeting would not have a sufficient number of attendees to be sustainable and to provide the physical experience of meeting everyone in scientific and social discourse, as we all desire. It is evident that concerns regarding the uncertainties of the pandemic and world affairs still loom.
For this reason, the ECHSA Board has decided that the ECHSA Annual Meeting 2022 will have to be in a virtual form only. This necessary decision was made with great regret, as ECHSA meetings are traditionally fruitful, informal gatherings of friends in which scientific exchanges flourish. We will now change the Scientific Program to a shorter version, more suitable for the virtual format, while at the same time keeping an exciting scientific content and our ECHSA business meeting in the Spring, as stipulated by our bylaws. The revised Program will be distributed shortly and uploaded on the Meeting’s Website.
Those among you that have already registered to attend onsite in Athens will be contacted by the ECHSA Secretariate and informed of your registration refund and switch to the virtual attendance process.
To all other ECHSA Members and friends who have not yet registered, we invite you to join us under this virtual format and take an active part in the 2022 Annual Meeting through your abstracts and your participation in the discussions of the scientific sessions.
We thank you in advance for your understanding and continued support of ECHSA and its activities.
On behalf of the ECHSA Board,
Morten Helvind
ECSHA Secretary – 2022 Meeting Organizing Committee Chair
George Sarris
ECSHA President – 2022 Meeting Local Host
