Sections' Organization

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Organization of Sections
Internal Regulations -Voting Procedures

  1. Each Section of the European Association of Professor Emeriti (EAPE) consists of all its regular members and is managed by a committee of three (3) members in total. The committee of each section coordinates the activities of the section and functions as the liaison and in the name of the Board of Directors (BoD) of EAPE.
  2. The committee of each section consists of: Chair, Co-Chair and Secretary. All registered members of EAPE, including corresponding members can be nominated and elected according to the By-laws of EAPE. No member can participate in more than two sections.
  3. All members of EAPE can participate in the section to further promote its goals. The purposes of every EAPE Section must be in full compliance with those of EAPE (Article 3 & 4 of EAPE By-laws). Means to achieve the purposes of each Section are generally those of EAPE (Article 4 of EAPE By-laws).
    Certain additional actions to meet specific purposes are the following:
    • It should communicate with the BoD of the EAPE which will receive appropriate feedback and any other type of relevant information on a regular basis.
    • It should seek close collaboration with other Sections in order to maximize achievement of their respective goals; in this context, collaboration in regional meetings and other similar events is encouraged.
    • An outreach policy will be adhered to by dispatching information on the ongoing activities of Sections; a main vehicle for the implementation of this policy shall be publishing its news and items in the EAPE Bulletin, newsletter, and the website. Also, each section will pursue, on behalf of EAPE, the participation in various funding and research European or other National or International projects and other European or International Agencies.
  4. The term of Chair, Co-chair and Secretary is limited to 2 years. Election among all active members of the Section will take place every 2 years following election of the BoD of EAPE, preferably by electronic ballot.
  5. The members of each Section shall be considered active based on the regular payment of their dues to EAPE; no further financial obligation will be required through separate fees to the Section. Third party financial support or any other means of sponsorship should be handled by the EAPE Treasurer as appropriate in collaboration with the Committee of each Section.
  6. Correspondence of each Section will be carried out by the Chair, Co-chair and Secretary under the official logo of EAPE with cc to the EAPE Board.
  7. The title of Honorary Member can be awarded by the membership of the Section to a prominent personality who has excelled in the field of the Section.

Sections' Activities

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The President's Letter

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The President's Letter
Prof. Emeritus Giancarlo Bracale – Naples, Italy

EAPE Section Needs and Wishes

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The EAPE Section Needs and Wishes of Young and Elderly People hereby announces its new research project on February 14th 2024 and invites EAPE members to discuss and participate.

For scientific and statistical reasons, we are focusing on a sample/model that explores the understanding of spirituality among young patients with chronic kidney disease, dialysis and transplantation and their pediatric nephrologists.

Methods used include narratives from patients and their physicians and their responses to age-appropriate questionnaires (MiniQs) on spirituality.

In addition, we will test the hypothesis that philosophy and complex systems thinking can illuminate our findings to the extent that the theoretical conclusions can be translated into practice.

 

In conclusion, the EAPE section Needs and Wishes of Young and Old is launching a multi-center survey in Europe and the US to investigate the impact of spirituality on children with CKD, dialysis and transplantation and their nephrologists.

This EAPE survey is officially supported by the European Society of Pediatric Nephrology (ESPN). Therefore, Jochen Ehrich and his team will invite more than 50 pediatric nephrologists from 48 European countries to participate. After our video lectures, the video presentations will be available on Youtube for all interested colleagues.

Last but not least, I would like to emphasize that the range of topics selected during my three years of chairing the section is much broader than the needs and diseases of patients with CKD, but this will be the content of our upcoming video lectures in 2024.

Jochen Ehrich - - Children's Hospital of Hannover Medical School, hannover, Germany

The introductory lecture is given by the President of EAPE Professor Sir Leslie Ebdon

Jochen Ehrich's Lecture

explains the following:
1. The language and terminology of the various concepts of needs and wishes.
2. The role of philosophy and complex systems thinking in medicine.
3. The instructions for our research project.
4. The opportunities and limitations of this research.
5. The need for a 3rd enlightenment in Europe.

Robert Woroniecki’s Lecture

will deal with the following topics:

Human spirit has been defined in different disciplines by many various ways. Robert defines spirituality as a sense of purpose in life and as our relationships with all living creatures or “Higher Power” on planet Earth. The World Health Organization (WHO) and Joint Commission on Accreditation of Health Care Organizations have identified spirituality as an important aspect of healthcare. Research over the last several decades demonstrates an association between spirituality and clinical outcomes, coping, and quality of life in different adult chronic diseases.

However, fewer studies have examined human spirit and spirituality in pediatrics and all its subspecialties and diseases to assess its specific role in children’s health. Although there are validated scales to measure hope in children based on the premise that children are goal oriented and that their goal-related thoughts can be understood, they were described in limited samples in healthy children. For example, spirituality in children with chronic kidney disease remains mostly unexamined.

Robert seeks to summarize current literature examining the role of spirituality in pediatrics and to identify gaps in this knowledge. It is investigating how the human spirit can be measured so that the results of the EAPE study on the needs and wishes of young patients with chronic kidney disease can be incorporated into the assessment of quality of life.