Our members
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Board Members
President
Jari Petäjä
Department Director, HUS New Children’s Hospital
Helsinki, Finland
Vice President
Angelika Berger
Head of Comprehensive Center for Pediatrics, Medical University of Vienna
Vienna, Austria
Treasurer
Valts Ābols
Director, Children’s Clinical University Hospital
Riga, Latvia
Secretary
Thomas Laffree
Director, Erasmus MC - Sophia Children's Hospital
Rotterdam, The Netherlands
General Assembly Members
Members
(Alphabetically by city)
Miquel Pons
CEO, Sant Joan de Déu Barcelona Children’s Hospital
Barcelona, Spain
Jesper Erdal
CEO, Mary Elizabeth's Hospital-Rigshospitalet for Children, Teens and Expecting Families, Rigshospitalet
Copenhagen, Denmark
Lucy Nugent
CEO, Children's Health Ireland
Dublin, Ireland
Federico Gelli
CEO, Meyer Children's Hospital – IRCCS
Florence, Italy
Karl Munslow Ong
CEO, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children
London, United Kingdom
Chistoph Klein
Medical Director, Dr. von Hauner Children’s Hospital, LMU
Munich, Germany
Ellen Ruud
Head of Division of Pediatrics, Oslo University Hospital
Oslo, Norway
Alban Amselli
Interim Deputy Director General, University Hospital Group Centre-Université Paris Cité, Necker-Enfants Malades Universitary Hospital AP-HP
Paris, France
Efrat Bron Harlev
CEO, Schneider Children's Medical Center of Israel
Petach-Tikva, Israel
Svante Norgren
Managing Director, Astrid Lindgren Children's Hospital, Karolinska University Hospital
Stockholm, Sweden
Konstantin Rebrov
CEO, Tallin Children's Hospital
Tallin, Estonia
Marek Migdał
CEO, Children's Memorial Health Institute
Warsaw, Poland