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President's message (January 2010)


Dear Members

I wish that the new year has started smoothly for all our members.

As you already know, the  2010  RIMS Conference will be organised as a joint ECTRIMS-RIMS in Gothenburg, Sweden, 13-16 October, 2010.

RIMS topics with two major RIMS sessions will be Progress in MS rehabilitation and Behavioural interventions in MS - update on trials and  mechanisms . Also, RIMS will have a 90 min session for oral presentations.You will find the preliminary program on
http://www.congrex.ch/ectrims2010/

  • Abstract dead line is 27 May 2010
  • Early Bird registration dead line is 18 August 2010

Please note that RIMS members will get a reduced price for registration fee. You have to be able to show your membership at the time of filling up your registration form.

As RIMS annual conferences traditionally occur in May, it means that the following conference, the RIMS 16th Annual Conference will follow quite rapidly after Gothenburg.  Please, make  a note on your calendar that in 2011, RIMS conference will be organised 13-14 May 2011 in Finland, Turku, The European Cultural Capital of 2011. The local organisers will be Dr Tiina Leistevuo, Chief of Masku Neurological Rehabilitation Centre and Dr. Juhani Ruutiainen, Chief of Rehabilitation Services , Finnish MS Society.
Also, as having its 40 years anniversary, the Finnish MS Society will act as a partner in organising the conference.

 

Enjoy this wonderful winter time!

Eija Luoto
RIMS President

 

Mission Statement

Rehabilitation in MS (RIMS), the network of MS Centres in Europe was created in 1991, in Milan, Italy to enhance collaboration by the foremost MS Centres in Europe. RIMS is a dynamic interdisciplinary Multiple Sclerosis Management Association affiliating numerous MS Centres spread throughout more than 20 European countries. Its members are comprehensive MS research and treatment centres, MS Clinics and corporations with a special interest in MS. Besides the member states of the European Community the research and treatment programmes has been opened to research organisations and clinics in central and eastern countries and the new independent states of the former Soviet Union.

The full mission statement can be read in the Charter of RIMS.


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  • News 2009-06-01: Newsletter "Network" June 2009
  • News 2008-05-15: The RIMS Fellowship Exchange Programme

 

This site was updated on January 26th, 2010.

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If you have comments or suggestions on this wibsite of RIMS (Rehabilitation in MS), please send an e-mail to: peter.feys@uhasselt.be, Secretary of RIMS
Tel. +32 11 29 49 81, Fax +32 11 29 49 53

 

 

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