3rd annual meeting of the Global Hellenic Medical & Biosciences Network Lagonissi-Athens, Greece September 3-5, 2009
HBA-USA was recently invited to be represented in the executive board of the Global Hellenic Medical and Biosciences Network. The HBA-USA participates in the organization of the GHMBN Annual Meeting to be held in Lagonissi-Athens on September 3-5, 2009.The meeting is organized with the support of the Hellenic Ministry of Health and Social Solidiarity and is under the auspices of H.E. The President of the Hellenic Republic, Dr Karolos Papoulias.
The HBA-USA coordinated the organization of a session about basic research and funding opportunities in Greece and abroad as well as of a session about Stem cells in cooperation with Biohellenika that kindly sponsored ticket expenses for the speakers of the respecitve session.
Meeting with the General Secreteriat for Research and Technology (Ministry of Development, Greece)
Konstantinos Drosatos (president), Thomas Thomou (General Secretary) and Iordanes Karagiannides (Treasurer) had a private meeting with the GSRT, Dr Ioannis Tsoukalas during his recent visit in Boston (Feb 2007) and updated him on the establishment and development of the HBA-USA. THE GSRT was very interested in the established student transfer program and the planned educative collaboration programs with the Greek universities. Also a communication channel was established with the GSRT office to explore the options of funding for the HBA-USA planned activities.Meeting with Medical students of the University of Athens, Greece
Konstantinos Drosatos (president of the HBA-USA) was invited by the HELMSIC (Hellenic Medical Students' International Committee) on a panel discussion regarding the opportunities that a medical student or a doctor may explore for studies, research or residency in the USA (Dec 20, 2006)Graduate student transfer program 2006
Graduate student training positions have been available by HBA-USA members to host graduate students from the Greek Universities on a short or long-term basis. This is a program that aims to facilitate the scientific interaction between Greek Bioscientists in the USA and Greek Universities and Research Institutes.Representation of the HBA-USA in the Organizing Committee of the Meeting Biosciences in the 21st century
The meeting that is being organized by the Panhellenic Union of Bioscientists will be held in Athens, Greece in April 13-15, 2006. Professor Fotis Kafatos presides over the meeting.The HBA-USA is being represented in the organizing committee of the meeting by Konstantinos Drosatos (president and coordinator of the working group that is responsible for the interaction with scientific organizations in Greece) who accepted the invitation of the chairman of the organizing committee, Manos Papadakis.
Message from the Minister of Health and Social Solidarity of the Hellenic Republic, Mr. D. Avramopoulos
Following the recent meeting of the president of the HBA-USA , Dr. Konstantinos Drosatos with the Minister of Health and Social Solidarity, Mr. Dimitrios Avramopoulos , the Minister expressed his pleasure to share the following message with the HBA-USA members:
Dear Friends and Distinguished Scientists,
I welcome the opportunity to reach you, the members of the Hellenic Bioscientific Association in the USA through your website and newsletter. In the 21st century, the challenges that we face are to continue to expand the frontier of knowledge across all research approaches; biomedical, clinical, public health and health services research ; and to maintain globally leading positions in all of these important areas. An even bigger challenge is to ensure that new knowledge is captured for the benefit of health through new diagnostics, new products, new therapies, evidence-informed policy development and
evidence-based best practices in healthcare delivery. Biomedical research has great potential to inform and contribute to the development of options that can
shape the future of health systems, and I welcome your dynamic input as the Hellenic Biomedical Association into this arena.
For Greece, it is important that we take full advantage of the outstanding biomedical researchers of Greek Diaspora and foster the innovative approaches to tackling our own health problems. Today, as research collaboration grows, Greek Biomedical scientists should be given every opportunity to work with international colleagues, and to set their sights at the highest international levels.
The Global Hellenic Medical Network (GHMN) was conceived as a means to coordinate the sporadic efforts of scientific associations and networks of
Greek Diaspora in the sensitive sector of Health and enhance the scientific interaction and collaboration among its members all over the world. I would
like to thank those of you who recently participated in the 1st Global Meeting of the Greek Doctors in Diaspora in Paphos in Cyprus, and hope to see
you in the next one which is being organized in Greece in 2009, as envisaged in the founding forum held in Kos in 2007. Our Ministry will continue to
support this initiative and every development and product of this creative effort.
Through everyone's efforts, we hope to be able to become a reflection of the inexhaustible possibilities and the cohesive bonds of the Diaspora, which
views the future with optimism, dynamism and confidence.
Thank you again for this opportunity to communicate with you.
Warm regards,
Dimitris Avramopoulos
Minister of Health and Social Solidarity
Hellenic Republic
