ECIC | 2027

8th European Congress on Intrapartum Care: Making Birth Safer
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EUROPEAN MIDWIVES ASSOCIATION

European Midwives Association (EMA) is a non-profit and non-governmental organisation of midwives, representing midwifery organisations and associations from the member states of the European Union (EU), members of the Council of Europe, the European Economic Area (EEA) and EU applicant countries.

Areas of activities:

  • Provide a forum for European midwives to meet and discuss issues concerning midwifery sociationand women’s health
  • Provide a minimum standards of midwifery education and practice within the EU
  • Maintain a presence and contribution avenues affecting health policy and midwifery within the EU.

EUROPEAN ASSOCIATION OF PERINATAL MEDICINE

EAPM President – Neena Modi, United Kingdom
President – Elect – Apostolos Athanasiadis, Greece
Secretary General – Valentina Tsibizova, Italy

The purpose of the European Association of Perinatal Medicine (EAPM) is to bring together groups and individuals in Europe who are interested in promoting the science of perinatal medicine, for the benefit of mothers and their children, in particular by:

  • Promoting and disseminating the study, research and knowledge of all aspects of perinatal medicine, to attain the optimal physical and mental health for mothers and their children by improving the quality and provision of perinatal care in Europe.
  • Contributing to the improvement of teaching standards in the profession.
  • Proposing guidelines and standardizing criteria for auditing, evaluation and clinical care in perinatal medicine.
  • Fostering collaboration between the various disciplines interested in perinatal care as well as friendship between individuals from different European Countries.

Congress Presidents

Gerard Visser
Gerard Visser
Congress President
University Medical Center, Utrecht, The Netherlands
Mervi Jokinen
Congress President
European Forum of National Nursing and Midwifery Associations EFNNMA, United Kingdom

Scientific Committee

Ines Nunes
Ines Nunes
Chair
Unidade Local de Saúde Gaia/ Espinho - University of Aveiro - RISE-HEALTH, Portugal
Ruben Ramirez Zegarra
Ruben Ramirez
Co-chair
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University Hospital Basel, Switzerland
Diogo Ayres de Campos
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the Medical School, University of Lisbon, Portugal
Petra Bakker
Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Amsterdam University Medical Center, The Netherlands
Aude Girault
Center for Research in Epidemiology and Statistics (CRESS), F-MOM network, Inserm, Université Paris Cité, Paris, France
Christiane Schwarz
Christiane Schwarz
Former Professor, University Lübeck, Germany
Loic Sentilhes
Loic Sentilhes
Obstetrics and Fetal Medicine Department at Bordeaux University Hospital, France
Melania Tudose
European Midwives Association and Bioterra University Bucharest, Romania
Christophe Vayssière
Gynecology, CHU de Toulouse, France
Viktoria Vivilaki
Midwifery Department, University of West Attica, Greece
Georges Emmanuel
Georges Emmanuel Roth
Gynecology and Obstetrics Department of the Strasbourg University Hospital, France
Branka Yli
Branka Yli
Delivery Department of Oslo University Hospital, Norway
Julien Simon
College Sages-Femmes, France

Local Organising Committee

Nicolas Sananès
Nicolas Sananès
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology American Hospital of Paris
Nadine Knezovic-Daniel
Nadine Knezovic-Daniel
College Sages-Femmes, France
Nathan Begusic
CHU Strasbourg, France

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