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Home Events & Publications Annual Meetings Meeting in Barcelona 2003

 

 

 

This year the annual meeting of the EGS took place in Barcelona. It was attended by representatives of the countries Austria, Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, The Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Switzerland and the United Kingdom.

We were pleased, that many members of our scientific board attended this meeting too and spoke about the latest news on galactosaemia.

AGENDA 2003:
General Part of the EGS-meeting
  • Minutes 2002, Financials, Meeting 2004, etc.
  • New members: Italy?
  • Status: France, Ireland
  • EGS-newsletter (Topic newsletter 7: treatment; decide on topic newsletter 8)
  • Fulda – Conference
  • Website
  • Diet-passport
  • Influence on declarations of products
  • Definition of new actions/projects

Scientific Part of the EGS-meeting

  • Galactosaemia in Spain”, an update by dr. Baldellou, dr. Barabair and mrs. Johnston
  • “Galactosaemia in Switzerland”, an update by dr. Nuoffer
  • Report of the Dusseldorf-group by Prof. Dr. Schadewaldt
    - Summary on endogenous galactose production
    - Significance of urinary galactitol for metabolic monitoring
    - Experiences on pregnancy in galactosaemic women
  • Results Study on speech- and languageproblems by H. Bollen
  • Discussion on Soya by dr. Macdonald
  • “What’s new in the Netherlands”, by dr. Bosch
    - Results Quality of Life-research
    - Diet
    - European questionnaire for specialists
  • Discussion - part I (e.g. scientific projects, European diet, European co-operation in research and sharing information)
  • Study on improvement of bone mineral density with galactosaemic childeren by dr. Panis
  • Discussion - part II (e.g. scientific projects, possible projects, Fulda-conference, etc.)

Below you can find some photos of the meeting.

 


 
 
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Last updated: 25.05.2005