New VASCERN Affiliated Partner from Luxembourg!

We are very pleased to welcome Centre Hospitalier de Luxembourg from Luxembourg as a new VASCERN Affiliated Partner!

This National Coordination Hub will be represented by Professor Klaus Kallenbach, cardiac surgeon, who will share his expertise with the Heritable Thoracic Aortic Diseases Working Group (HTAD WG).

Prof Kallenbach will begin by joining the monthly HTAD WG videoconference calls and will meet the group in person at the HTAD face-to-face meeting that will take place in Paris, France on May 15th, 2020.

As always, we remind you that the designation of “Affiliated Partner” was integrated into the ERN legal framework in order to “achieve the widest possible geographical coverage, exchange of knowledge and best practice throughout Europe.”

Affiliated Partners are named by their national governments.

There are 2 types of Affiliated Partners:

Associated National Centres (mainly healthcare providers) for those ERNs where an EU Member State is not yet represented by a full member in the respective ERN. It establishes a link with one specific ERN.
A National Coordination Hub which establishes at once a link with more than one Network in which a given Member State is neither represented by a full member nor by an Associated National Centre. National Coordination Hubs may especially represent a useful solution for those Member States with very small populations that need to establish such links with many ERNs at once.

For all documents related to Affiliated Partners see the ERN Board of Member States (BoMS) page here

See the complete list of VASCERN’s full Healthcare Provider members and Affiliated Partners here