Dear Members

I am very proud and happy to be the new President of YEHS. It's a pleasure and an honor to takeover from Letizia, our out coming President (and actual vice-President), in this role.

As past-Secretary, I am well aware of the big responsibility of being President of YEHS as well as the devotion it requires

As incoming President, my goal is to keep promoting the values and aims of YEHS and grow it. First things we will work on with the new board are an update of our bylaws, to get more directly involved with FESSH and create new events similar to our first webinar of April 6th.

After the recent online election we can reveal the new YEHS board:

Vice President: Letizia Marenghi
Secretary and Head of educational/fellowship committee: Marina Brndusic
Head of Congress scientific advisory committee: Giuseppe Rovere
Head of Social Media and communication committee: Julia Ruston

I'm looking forward to working with this wonderful team, to continuously increase the number of YEHS members and to accept any advice or criticism.

Thank you,

Camillo Fulchignoni
President

2022 YEHS board elections are coming up – these are your candidates…

Elections will take place online from May 26th to May 29th. Check your candidates curriculums and don’t forget to vote: if you are a YEHS member you’ll soon receive the link to vote on your email.

Dear Members,

A lot of events of storical impact have happened and are still happening close to us. They have obliged us to change our way of living and working trying to find new solutions. The on-line network has helped to keep in touch and spread knowledge.

For these reasons and to ensure the maximum attendance, this year again the YEHS General Assembly is scheduled on-line on May 31st. This event gives us the possibility to show you all what YEHS is working on, the project accomplished, the new ideas and the new organization.

With this message I would also announce the call for the candidacy for the election of the new YEHS board. We really hope for a massive participation and involvement of members in order to make YEHS even more a melting pot of new people and ideas.

Elections for renewal of YEHS Board are coming-up soon (26-29th of May with on-line voting).

My recommendation for the next president of YEHS is Camillo Fulchignoni, our Secretary. He is giving fundamental support and is perfectly managing the hard work behind the scenes of YEHS.

YEHS is also looking for a new Secretary and Head of Education/ Fellowship Committee, a new Head of Social Media and Communications Committee and a new head for the Congress Scientific Advisory Committee. You can find more infos in this website under organization section and reading our bylaws (that you can find at the same section)

Please let us know if you are interested in running for a free position by sending an email with your curriculum and a short paragraph to introduce yourself (5 lines) to info@yehs.eu by 15th of May!

Kind regards

Letizia Marenghi
YEHS president

Dear Members,

I am incredibly excited to officially begin my first term as President of YEHS despite the difficult times we are in. I’m following on from the leadership of our amazing outgoing President, Inga Besmens with whom I’ve worked with since YEHS‘s inception in 2017.

As past-Secretary, I connected with FESSH to build relationships, collaborate on events and create awareness and understanding for our goals. Moreover, I tried to welcome new members to spread our ideas, offer help and support and latterly I helped with Social Media creating a strong relationship with the FESSH Social Media committee as part of that committee also.

As incoming President, my goal is to keep promoting the values and aims of YEHS and grow it. We will aim to expand the committee in order to look for new ideas, collaborations and strengthen the community involvement. Each member of the board and committee will have a specific area of focus, and each will bring a diversity of thought, talent and passion to the YEHS mission.

After the recent on-line election we can reveal the new YEHS board:

Vice President: Inga Besmens
Secretary and Head of educational/fellowship committee: Camillo Fulchignoni
Head of Congress scientific advisory committee: Alessandro Crosio
Head of Social Media and communication committee: Elisabeth Haas

I’m certain that we will work together as one team to empower and improve YEHS. We will encourage and support the membership throughout the year to engage, give feedback, and add their voice to our initiatives.

I am honored to lead and work with such an amazing team. But nothing we do would have been possible without the strong will of Dr. Maurizio Calcagni to help found YEHS and pledge FESSH’s support during the initial years.

In the next two years of my mandate, I hope we can continue to serve the evolving needs of this community and find new resources in this uncertain and volatile time.

I look forward to do my best as your new YEHS president.

Thank you,

Letizia Marenghi
President

YEHS board elections are coming up – these are your candidates….

Pick your candidates and stay tuned for more infos on the voting process.

Dear Everyone,

This has been a challenging time for all of us but as life goes on and things are (hopefully) getting better we don't want to forget that YEHS will need to vote on a new executive board. We want you to be part of this either by running for a position or by voting.

As you know YEHS' goals are to

• facilitate networking between young hand surgeons across Europe
• help FESSH to
  • improve hand surgery training in Europe
  • enable knowledge transfer between surgeons and institutions (e.g. traveling fellowships etc.)
  • promote research opportunities
  • install training courses, e-learnings, webinars
• represent interests of trainees in hand surgery

We are a part of FESSH

I will step down as president this season and recommend Letizia Marenghi who has been Secretary up until now and has been doing a fantastic job for president of YEHS.

We will also be looking for a new Secretary and Head of Education/ Fellowship Committee, a new Head of Social Media and Communications Committee and a new head for the Congress Scientific Advisory Committee.

Please let us know if you are interested in joining us by sending an email to info@yehs.eu

See you all soon (at least virtually ;)

Inga

Dear Colleagues,

It is such a pleasure to welcome you all to our new website.

As you may know YEHS – Young European Hand Surgeons was founded with the support of Dr. Maurizio Calcagni, the current FESSH Secretary General, at the annual FESSH conference in Budapest in 2017.

Our goal is facilitate networking between young hand surgeons across Europe and to help FESSH to improve hand surgery training in Europe, to enable knowledge transfer between surgeons and institutions (e.g. traveling fellowships etc.), to promote research opportunities and to install training courses etc

And of course we are also here to represent the interests of trainees in hand surgery in Europe, your interests.

Find out more about who we are and what we have been up to, and check back regularly as this site is still work in progress…

We are looking forward to working together with all of you to make hand surgery training in Europe the best there is.

Kind regards,

Inga Besmens
President