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Specialized Working Groups

EHA partners with Specialized Working Groups (SWGs) to foster science and to spread knowledge in basic, translational and clinical research in hematology in Europe.

European Board for Accreditation in Hematology

Current committee members
Peter van den Burg, The Netherlands (Chair and ISBT representative—transfusion medicine)
Michelle Kenyon, United Kingdom (EBMT Nurses Group representative—Specialized Hematology Professional)
Fionnuala Ní Áinle, Ireland (ISTH representative—thrombosis and hemostasis)
Annalisa Ruggeri, Italy (Representative, clinical hematology)
Isabel Sanchez-Ortega, Spain (EBMT representative)
Ana Filipa Marques…

Travel Grants

Travel grant application is now closed

Travel grants are intended to support young investigators in the region; therefore, applicants should be 40 years of age or young, and are reserved for applicants from Armenia, Georgia, Iran, Azerbaijan, and Türkiye.

Infections in Hematology

The SWG on Infection in Hematology was founded in 2017 and follows four main goals:

Develop and share clinically useful tools: Many hematologists create checklists and pathways for quick and easy reference.

Quality of Life and Symptoms

The goals of the SWG are:

To promote the evaluation of patient-reported outcomes (PROs) in hematology in daily clinical practice and in clinical trials.

Aging and Hematology

The SWG "Aging and Hematology" has four main goals for the next four years (2019-2023):

To share clinically useful tools in assessing frailty and comorbidities in older adults with hematologic malignancies.

Guidelines Committee

Current committee members
Carlo Dufour, Italy (Chair)
Martin Dreyling, Germany (Vice-Chair)
Steffen Koschmieder, Germany (Executive member)
Marieke Kruip, The Netherlands (Executive member)
Area associate members
Tamam Bakchoul, Germany
Sabine Blum, Switzerland
Cristina Castilla Llorente, France
Lydie Da Costa, France
Wojciech Jurczak, Poland
Noémi Roy, United Kingdom
Giovanna Russo, Italy
Cynthia So-Osman, The Netherlands
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Substances of Human Origin (SoHO) legislation

EHA’s involvementEHA has been involved in both the evaluation and subsequent revision of the EU legislation on human blood and blood components. The evaluation of these rules, which dated back to 2002, began in 2016.

Scientific networks

Specialized Working Groups (SWGs)In order to cover the full hematology field, EHA Specialized Working Groups (SWGs) are divided in two groups: disease-oriented and overarching SWGs.