PROGRAMME and SCHEDULE
The full preliminary programme is available here.
Sunday, 21 September
Arrival of participants
Monday, 22 September
- Welcome & Introduction
- Stroke unit care
- Heart and Brain
- Stroke Imaging
- Challenging clinical cases in acute stroke management
Tuesday, 23 September
- Stroke prevention
- Tips and caveats for Endovascular Treatment
- Stroke Innovation
- Hands-On Workshop I: Acute stroke management (Attikon University Hospital)
Wednesday, 24 September
- Current update in stroke management
- Uncommon causes of stroke
Thursday, 25 September
- Intracerebral Hemorrhage
- Neurosurgical Management
- Personalised stroke medicine in specific stroke subgroups
- Stroke Education
- Large-artery stroke
- Challenging cases in stroke diagnosis
Friday, 26 September
- Stroke Study design and methodology: Tips & Caveats
- Stroke Rehabilitation
- Spinal Cord Stroke
- Hands-On Workshop II: Stroke Rehabilitation (Attica Rehabilitation Center)
Saturday, 27 September
Event closing
APPLY
WHO SHOULD APPLY?
Selection criteria:
- Young physicians with a major interest in cerebrovascular diseases.
- Applicants should currently be in training in a European teaching hospital that treats acute stroke patients.
- Applicants should be fluent in English and under the age of 45.
- Applicants must be ESO members (stroke professionals under 35 years old can become a Junior Member for free here)
The organising committee will select participants based on their:
- Application
- Country of origin (not more than 2 participants per country; the host country may have 3 participants)
- The expected benefit to the individual and to his/her stroke unit and country
One place at the Summer School will be allocated to the winning abstract from the Young Stroke Physicians Committee Workshop at ESOC 2025.
If there are available places, applications from non-European countries may be considered by the organisers. The list of participants will be approved by the ESO Executive Committee.
For successful applicants, tuition, accommodation, meals and coffee breaks costs are covered. Participants are expected to cover their travel expenses to and from Athens and any personal expenses outside of the official programme. Accompanying persons are not permitted.
HOW TO APPLY
The application period for ESO Summer School 2025 is now open until 1st March 2025.
Interested applicants are requested to submit the following documents:
- Application form – available here
- Personal statement of motivation (up to 2 pages)
- CV (up to 2 pages))
- A letter of recommendation from a supervisor or Head of Department
Complete applications should be sent via email to the address indicated on the application form.
Please note that incomplete applications will not be considered.
The deadline to receive applications is 1 March 2025.
LOCAL ORGANISING COMMITTEE
Lina Palaiodimou
Apostolos Safouris
Sotirios Giannopoulos
Aikaterini Theodorou
Eleni Bakola
Maria Chondrogianni
Panayiotis Mitsias
Konstantinos Vadikolias
Theodore Karapanayiotides
Sofia Vassilopoulou
CONTACT
Please contact the ESO Head Office for any questions or more information.