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Conference of European Respiratory Societies (CERS)

About CERS

CERS is a not-for-profit international organisation made up of the European Respiratory Society (ERS) and partnered regional, national and specialist societies that have respiratory diseases as a primary interest. The main objective of CERS is to coordinate common objectives between these groups. CERS seeks to improve the standards in lung health care in Europe by:

  • Increasing awareness of respiratory health and disease
  • Raising awareness of patients’ needs
  • Raising awareness of research needs
  • Increasing funding for patient care, patient service and research
  • Co-ordinating approaches to the European Union (EU) and national governments
  • Improving medical education and accreditation
CERS commitments

In order to achieve its objectives, CERS is committed to:

  • Supporting national activities at EU level
  • Supporting EU activities at the national level
  • Seeking to influence the EU Public Health, Research, Environmental and other relevant agendas
  • Providing information and advice on EU initiatives through the ERS Brussels Office
  • Promoting and facilitating joint activities and interaction amongst regional/national/specialist respiratory societies in cooperation with ERS
  • Supporting the implementation of ERS Task Force recommendations and guidelines

Upcoming CERS meeting

To be confirmed

There are two CERS meetings per year. The next meeting date and location will be announced in due course.

CERS membership

ERS partner societies

CERS is chaired by the ERS President. ERS partner societies are automatically enrolled as CERS members.

Membership of CERS is broken down into three groups:

  1. European regional/national/specialist societies with an ERS membership agreement. This group has full voting rights.
  2. Non-European regional/national/specialist societies with an ERS membership agreement. This group does not have voting rights.
  3. Elected observers. Territories which do not have a membership agreement with ERS through a national society can have an elected National Delegate as a CERS observer. These are elected by ERS members from the same territory. National Delegates do not have voting rights.

CERS Steering Committee

  • Austrian Society of Pneumology (representative Prof. Dr. Ernest Eber)
  • German Respiratory Society (representative Dr. Benjamin Waschki)
  • Hellenic Thoracic Society (representative Prof. Dr. Vasilios Tzilas)

National Delegates

Albania

Daniela Xhemalaj



Armenia

Irina Khachatryan



Bosnia and Herzegovina

Besim Prnjavorac



Indonesia

Heru Wiyono



Japan

Yasuhiko Nishioka



Kazakhstan

Denis Vinnikov



Republic of Moldova

Oxana Munteanu



Senegal

Abdourakhmane Niang



Slovakia

Jan Plutinsky



Ukraine

Dmytro Butov



United States of America

MeiLan K. Han



More information

Additional documents/information on CERS.

Documents:

CERS Constitution View all

Additional queries

If you have any further queries regarding CERS, please contact us.

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