Department to Department Visit Programme

The ESO Department to Department Visit Programme is a grant of 1,500 EUR offered to up to 10 young physicians and researchers to support a short visit of 1 week or as a contribution to a longer visit to a European department or laboratory.

The programme aims to provide insight into stroke departments outside the applicant’s home country.

The short visit may play an important role in the career of young physicians and researchers by establishing contact with people and departments who may provide future research and job opportunities. Awardees are expected to send a report after completion of their visit to be posted on the ESO blog and newsletter, and to acknowledge ESO in scientific work that results from the stay.

2020 Department to Department Visit Programme Grant Awardees

Awardee
Tatia Aprasidze (Georgia)
Antonio Ciacciarelli (Italy)
Gleni Halili (Albania)
Mihai Radu Ionescu (Romania)
Espen Saxhaug Kristoffersen (Norway)
Lusine Martirosyan (Armenia)
Kateriine Orav (Estonia)
Marieta Valerieva Peycheva (Bulgaria)
Aurora Semerano (Italy)
Dmitar Vlahović (Serbia)

Host Institution
University Children’s Hospital, Inselspital, Bern, Switzerland
Hospital Clinic, Barcelona, Spain
Inselspital Bern, Neurology Department, Bern, Switzerland
Centre Hospitalier Universitaire, Limoges, France
Department of Neurology at the University of Bern, Switzerland
Department of Neurology at the University of Bern, Switzerland
Department of Neurology at the University of Bern, Switzerland
Department of Neurology at the University of Bern, Switzerland
Department of Neurology at the University of Bern, Switzerland
Oslo University Hospital, Department of Neurology, Oslo, Norway

Who Should Apply?

Physicians or researchers born in 1980 or after – with an interest in the field of stroke. Applicants must be ESO members (Junior membership application is available here).

The grant can only be received once.

In the selection process, we have a special emphasis on applicants from European low-middle and upper-middle income countries (as defined by the World Bank), interested in improving the stroke pathways and care in their institutions and six grants per year are reserved for this purpose.

How to Apply

The application deadline is 28 February each year. Interested applicants are requested to complete the application form (click here) and submit together with the following documents

Invitation letter from Head of the Department / Institution where you want to visit (host institution)
Letter of recommendation from the supervisor or Head at your department
Letter of motivation (1/2 page)
English CV ( 1-2 page)
List of publications
Copy of identity card/passport

If you require assistance to establish contact with an institution, please contact Dr. Diana Aguiar de Sousa from the “ESO Young Stroke Physicians and Researchers committee” by e-mail to dianasousa@campus.ul.pt Applications must be submitted to the ESO Secretariat by e-mail to esoinfo@eso-stroke.org by February 28 of each year. For any questions, please write to esoinfo@eso-stroke.org

Sabina Medukhanova

National Centre of Neurosurgery, Kazakhstan

“It was a great pleasure to watch the teamwork of the nurses, physiotherapist, ergotherapists and speech therapists in the stroke unit as they provided not only professional care but also compassionate care. For me it was a discovery that nurses administer thrombolysis and nurses can discuss treatment schemes of the prescribed medicine to the patients, as in Kazakhstan nurses only follow the instructions given to them by physician and it is absolutely forbidden to do thrombolysis by nurse.”

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Rytis Masiliūnas

Vilnius University Hospital Santaros Clinics, Lithuania

“The two-week exchange in the Department of Neurology of Karolinska University Hospital in Stockholm under the mentorship of Dr. Michael Mazya was an immensely enriching experience both professionally and personally.”

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Inna Lutsenko

Kyrgyz State Medical Academy

“The stroke pathway in the hub is very organized: after admission to hospital, patient is delivered to the „red emergency zone“, where is immediately evaluated by the duty specialist and stroke neurologist. CT-Scanners, MRI and Angio are located in the same building and these investigations are done promptly. What I really liked, is that each patient is observed by several stroke specialists in the perspective and by neurosurgeons, radiologists and other specialists simultaneously”

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Awardees and Reports

2019 Awardees

ESO is pleased to announce the 2019 Department to Department Visit Programme Awardees. We wish a fruitful, cooperative visit to all involved.

Awardee: Angelo Cascio Rizzo (Italy)
Host Institution: Charite University Hospital, Berlin, Germany / 9 – 15 September 2019 Read Report

Awardee: Silvia Chirobocea (Romania)
Host Institution: Inselspital Bern, Neurology Department, Bern, Switzerland / 5 – 14 August 2019 Read Report

Awardee: Mercedes de Lera Alfonso (Spain)
Host Institution: Inselspital Bern, Neurology Department, Bern, Switzerland / 1 – 8 September 2019 Read Report

Awardee: Sofiya Khachaturyan (Armenia)
Host Institution: Inselspital Bern, Neurology Department, Bern, Switzerland / 2 – 6 December 2019 Read Report

Awardee: Inna Lutsenko (Kyrgyzstan)
Host Institution: San Camillo Forlanini Hospital, Department of Neuroscience, Rome, Italy / 27 May – 4 June 2019 Read Report

Awardee: Masiliūnas Rytis (Lithuana)
Host Institution: Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden / 25 March – 5 April 2019 Read Report

Awardee: Sabina Medukhanova (Kazakhstan)
Host Institution: Inselspital Bern, Neurology Department, Bern, Switzerland / 11 – 15 November 2019 Read Report

Awardee: Răzvan Alexandru Radu (Romania)
Host Institution: University Hospital Vall d’Hebron, Barcelona, Spain / 10 – 23 June 2019 Read Report

Awardee: Valentina Rinnoci (Italy)
Host Institution: Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway / 27 January – 4 February 2020 Read Report

Awardee: Floris H.B.M. Schreuder (The Netherlands)
Host Institution: Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust, Manchester, United Kingdom / 5 – 12 September 2019 Read Report

2018 Awardees

ESO is pleased to announce the 2018 awardees:

Natalia Andrzejewska (Poland)
Host Institution: Inselspital Bern, Neurology Department, Bern, Switzerland Read Report

Mariana Morais Carvalho Dias (Portugal)
Host Institution: Hospital Universitario Vall d’Hebron, Barcelona, Spain Read Report

Csilla Forro (Romania)
Host Institution: National Institute of Clinical Neurosciences, Budapest, Hungary Read Report

Julie Haesebaert (France)
Host Institution: Kings’s College, School of Population Health & Environmental Sciences, London, United Kingdom Read Report

Manea Maria Mirabela (Romania)
Host Institution: Inselspital Bern, Neurology Department, Bern, Switzerland Read Report

Giuseppe Reale (Italy)
Host Institution: Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden Read Report

Pasquale Scoppettuolo (Belgium)
Host Institution: Hôpital Roger Salengro, Lille, France Read Report

Susanna Zuurbier (The Netherlands)
Host Institution: Helsinki University Central Hospital, Finland Read Report

2017 Awardees

ESO is pleased to announce the 2017 awardees:

Rahim Aliyev (Azerbaijan)
Host Institution: Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany Read Report

Kateryna Antonenko (Ukraine)
Host Institution: University Hospital of Perugia, Stroke Unit, Department of Internal Medicine, Perugia, Italy Read Report

Anne-Katrin Giese (German/Harvard)
Host Institution: Ludwig-Maximilians-Univeristy, Munich, Germany Read Report

Dearbhla Kelly (Dublin/Ireland)
Host Institution: University Hospital Lariboisiere, Paris, France Read Report

Patrick Nicholson (Dublin/Ireland)
Host Institution: Inselspital Bern, Neurology Department, Bern, Switzerland Read Report

Alessio Pieroni (Rome/Italy)
Host Institution: Queen Elizabeth University, Stroke Unit, Hospital in Glasgow, United Kingdom