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
Secretary
Merete Lange
CEO at Mary Elizabeth's Hospital-Rigshospitalet for Children, Teens and Expecting Families, Rigshospitalet
Copenhagen, Denmark
Eilísh Hardiman, MBA
CEO, Children's Health Ireland
Dublin, Ireland
Meyer Children's Hospital - IRCCS
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
Svante Norgren, MD, PhD
Managing Director, Astrid Lindgren Children's Hospital, Karolinska University Hospital
Stockholm, Sweden
Marek Migdał, MD
CEO, Children's Memorial Health Institute
Warsaw, Poland
ECHO Secretariat
Ruben Diaz, MD, PhD
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