Members

Board Members

President

Manuel del Castillo, MD
CEO, Sant Joan de Déu Barcelona Children’s Hospital
Barcelona, Spain

Vice President 

Jari Petäjä, MD, PhD
Department Director HUS New Children's Hospital
Helsinki, Finland

Treasurer

Valts Ābols, MD
Director, Children's Clinical University Hospital
Riga-Latvia


Merete Lange 
CEO at Mary Elizabeth's Hospital-Rigshospitalet fro Children, Teens and Expecting Families, Rigshospitalet
Copenhagen, Denmark

Eilísh Hardiman, MBA
CEO, Children's Health Ireland
Dublin, Ireland

Meyer Children's Hospital
Florence, Italy

Volodymyr Zhovnir 
CEO, Ohmatdyt, National specialized children's hospital, Ministry of Health
Kyiv, Ukraine

Matthew Shaw, MD
CEO, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children
London, United Kingdom

Chistoph Klein, MD, PhD
Medical Director, Dr. von Hauner Children’s Hospital, LMU
Munich, Germany

Ellen Ruud, MD, PhD
Head of Division, Oslo University Hospital
Division of Paediatrics
Oslo, Norway

Maya Vilayleck 
Director, Necker-Enfants Malades Universitary Hospital AP-HP
Paris, France

Efrat Bron Harlev, MD
CEO, Schneider Children's Medical Center of Israel
Petach-Tikva, Israel 

Thomas Laffree 
Director, Erasmus MC - Sophia Children's Hospital
Rotterdam, Netherlands

Marek Migdał, MD
CEO, Children's Memorial Health Institute
Warsaw, Poland


ECHO Secretariat 

Ruben Diaz, MD, 
Secretary General, ECHO
Deputy CEO of International Affairs, Sant Joan de Déu Barcelona Children's Hospital

Jennifer McIntosh, PharmD, MHS
Project Director, European Children's Hospitals Organisation