1. IFCN Liaison Officer Report to European Chapter

• Change of Officers and Rules

• Financial Issues

• IFCN Sponsored Meetings

• Guidelines

• North American Chapter

2. Change of Officers

• Prof Johannes Noth resigned as ExCo Secretary

• 6 nominations received by deadline of 31.1.07; 4 accepted candidacy

• Ballot resulted in election of Prof Reinhard Dengler

• Prof Mark Hallets term as Editor-in Chief of Clin Neurophysiol ended 31/12/07

• ExCo received 9 nominations from various sources.

• Prof David Burke confirmed by ExCo as new Editor and started 1.1.08

3. Financial Issues

• For this fiscal period (2006-2010) each chapter will receive 100,000 USD for its activities. Includes North American Chapter.

• IFCN continues to support chapter and International congresses with start up funds and fellowships.

4. IFCN Sponsored meetings

• Consensus meeting on Electrophysiological Criteria in ALS Awaji Island April 7 07 Now published in Clin Neurophysiol

• Workshop on Clinical Neurophysiology was held in Bangalore, India on April 13-15, 2007

• Neurophysiological Monitoring Meeting was held in Montevideo, Uruguay on April 19-22, 2007

• Safety of TMS Siena Italy March 2008

5. IFCN Guidelines

• TMS Clinical utility (ed Chen) just appeared

• SEP (ed Cruccu) to be published

• ERP (ed Duncan) ready to be submitted

• VEP/ERG (ed Holder) In progress

• TMS How to do it (ed Siebner) In progress

6. North American Chapter

• The 3 North American Societies AANEM, ACNS and CSCN agreed to form NA Chapter.

• Chapter constitution and rules submitted to IFCN Rules Committee

• NA chapter accepted by ballot of all member societies

• Now there are 4 chapters : North America, Latin America, Asia-Oceanea and Europe

• This may require a consideration of change in IFCN rules on the nomination and election of officers in relation to geographical area.

7. Current IFCN ExCo 7 members

• President: Elected

• Past President

• Treasurer: Elected

• Secretary: Elected

• Editor-in-Chief

• Members-at-Large (2) Elected

• President and past president must be from different geographical areas

• Treasurer and Secretary must be from different geographical areas

• Members-at Large must be from different geographical areas and from Countries different from Pres, Past Pres, Treas and Sec.

• Elections each fiscal period: 1: President and Treasurer 2: Secreatary 3: Members at Large (2)

• Geographical areas are: 1: N and S. America, Australasia and Japan and 2: Europe, Asia (except Japan) and Africa

• IFCN ExCO is looking to change geographical area s to 4: N.America, Latin America, Asia-Oceanea and Europe (inc Middle East and Africa).

8. Possible options

• No change

• Expand ExCo to reflect chapters rather than geographical areas i.e. 4 members at large

• Rotate presidency through chapter areas

• Consider nomination of members at large by chapters

9. Principles of election to potentially expanded ExCo

• Voting should remain as it is with each society voting with its specified number of delegates

• IFCN ExCo elected members should contain representation from each geographical area

• IFCN ExCo members should retain a balance between geographical areas

10. Next International Congress

• 29 th International Congress of Clinical Neurophysiology (ICCN) will be held in Kobe, Japan from October 28th to November 1st , 2010.

• First announcement issued

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12. IFCN Statutes CHAPTERS 16.1 Chapters: On recommendation of the Executive Committee and the approval of the General Assembly, Chapters may be set up each to represent the member societies located in a particular region. Each Chapter is governed by it s own by-laws. Those by-laws are considered to be by-laws of the Federation. These by-laws must be compatible with these Statutes, reviewed by the Executive Committee and approved by General Assembly. The Federation Rules Committee serves as the Rules Committee of each Chapter.