Activities of the NFOG Board 2008-2009

General Assembly, June 17th 2010Ragnheiður I. Bjarnadóttir, Secretary General

President: Seija Grénman, Finland Secretary: Ragnheidur I. Bjarnadóttir, Iceland Treasurer: Thea Lousen, Denmark

Webmaster: Peter Secher, Denmark

DSOG: Morten Lebech->Charlotte Sögaard SGY: Juha Tapanainen->Aila Tiitinen FIFK: Arnar Hauksson->Hulda Hjartardóttir NFG: Rolf Kirschner-> Björn Backe SFOG: Charlotta Grunewald->Ulf Högberg

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Acta: Reynir T. Geirsson, Iceland Scientific Committee: Lars-Åke Mattsson,

Sweden-> Alexander Smarason, Iceland Educational Committee: Jens Gudmundsson,

Iceland-> Anders Atke, Denmark->? NFYOG: Stig Hill, Norway->Alda Birgisdóttir ,

Iceland NFOG 2010: Peter Hornnes, Denmark.

Internal Auditors: Ditte Trolle, Denmark & Nils-Erik Backas, Finland. External Auditor: Bo Hendriksen, Aaen & Co.

Meetings in 2008-2009

2008: 4 meetings ( incl. one telephone meeting). 2009: 2 meetings. On the Agenda: Acta National Societies and NFYOG Educational and Scientific Committees NFOG Congress, Educational Meetings www.nfog.org EBCOG, FIGO (Twinning project) NFOG economy NFOG Fund

OBJECTIVES OF NFOG AS DEFINED IN THE STATUTES

Encourage scientific cooperation in Nordic countries

Encourage clinical cooperation in Nordic countries

Work towards high standard of training at all levels

Improve reproductive health all over the world

NFOG Objectives

 Scientific co-operation

 NFOG Congress

Acta Thesis Registry (started 2003)

Collaborative programme(started 2009)

Clinical co-operation

NFOG Congress

Hot Topics Visitor Program (started 2003)

Training at all levels

NFYOG

Meetings

Summaryof training

Hot Topics

Educational courses (2009)

NFOG congresses

Lillehammer scholarshipSpecial initiatives

Improvingreproductivehealthglobally

FIGO EBCOG Twinning Project NFYOG symposium 2009

The NFOG Clinical Visitor Program

Program started in 2003 75.000 DKK allocated per year

31 specialists have visited another Nordic country through this program.

In 2008, 2 applications were supported: In 2009, 5 applications were supported:

Positive feedback from all parties. Reports of the visits have been published in

national bulletins and on the website of NFOG.

The NFOG Collaborative Program Program started in 2008 To encourage scientific collaboration

between at least two Nordic countries. 75.000 DKK allocated per year 2008: 4 applications were supported (for 2009) 2009: 3 applications were supported (for 2010)

NFOG Fund to replace and expand bothVisitor and Collaborative Programs…

Twinning programme

FIGO has organized twinning to 12 developing countries to strengthen their National Societies of Obstetricians and Gynecologists.

Pakistan has been twinned to Sweden. Nigeria has been twinned with Denmark.

2 colleagues from Pakistan and 1 from Nigeria were invited to the NFOG Congress 2010.

Scientific Committee 2008-2009 Chairman Lars-Åke Mattsson, Sweden->Alexander Smarason, Iceland in 2009 Thue Bryndorf->Annette Tornes Pedersen,

Denmark Oskari Heikinheimo, Finland Alexander Smárason Iceland-> Lars-Åke

Mattsson, Sweden->Pelle Lindquist, Sweden Knut Hordnes, Norway

Scientific Committee Visitor and collaborative program each year. Discussion, planning of new NFOG fund

NFOG congress 2010

Planned the scientific program collaboration with the local organising committee.

Selected abstracts for oral and poster presentations. Prizes and grants at NFOG 2010: Thesis

presentations (5), Young Scientist award (1), Best oral (3) and poster presentations (3) and Lillehammer Scholarships (2):

Educational Committee 2008-2009

Chairman: Anders Atke, Denmark->Pepe Salvesen, Norway->?

Current Educational Committee: Marie Bixö, Sweden Jakob Nakling, Norway Ali Shokouh-Amiri , Denmark Kaarin Makikallio, Finland Kristín Jónsdóttir, Iceland

The Educational Committtee

Established by the NFOG Board in 1990 Focus on educational matters, mainly for

Nordic specialists in Obstetrics & Gynecology. Hot Topics courses replaced with yearly

Specialist courses. NFOG Specialist Course on vulvar diseases

in Copenhagen 2009, with 147 participants. Polycystic Ovary Syndrome Through Life Copenhagen, 17-18th November 2010

NFOG Websitewww.nfog.org

NFOG Websitewww.nfog.org

The NFOG website, www.nfog.org was established in 2001.

The number of daily visitors has increased steadily from an average of 20 in 2004 to about 50 in 2010.

In the last two year period the activities on the website consisted of:

The publication of minutes of the board meetings and General Assembly.

The thesis registry has been updated regularly. The thesis registry lottery was introduced in 2008 in

order to attract authors to submit new theses. This has attracted some more theses after a period of declining numbers.

Various courses of interest to Nordic colleagues have been made available and frequently updated.

The pages most frequently visited has been:

Boardmembers Theses Congresses Abstracts NFOG 2004 NFOG Congresses Abstract NFOG 2006

Thesis Registry received this number of theses:

Thesis Registry received this number of theses:

The numbers clearly show a decrease in thesis submission from the year 2007.

As early as in spring 2008 the board became aware of this tendency and thus, the thesis registry lottery was introduced in order to attract more submissions. Nevertheless, the number of submissions has declined further.

NFYOG 2008-2009 Board consists of 10 members, 2 from

each Nordic country. NFYOG Symposium “Third world

challenges in obstetrics and gynecology: issues, facts and personal experiences” in Copenhagen 2009.

NFYOG Pre-congress Symposium: Transplantation of female genital

organs

Motivation and stimulation

Best posters: 3 x 10.000 DKK Best Oral Presentations: 3 x 10.000 DKK Young Scientist Award: 20.000 DKK Lillehammer Scholarship: 2 x 20.000 DKK

Acta Prize (most quoted article): 20.000 DKK

Twinning Fellows total sum: 50.000 DKK

NFYOG 100.000 /140.000 DKK per year

Suggestions at GA 2006

1. NFOG should be made more visible: www.nfog.org.

News Letters from Chairman and Committees.

2. Twinning Project suggested : Twinning with Nigeria and Pakistan.

3. A plan of how the money of NFOG could be used: Development of Acta .

Good ideas needed from members.

Suggestions at GA 2008

Establishing a fund similar to the Danish FIGO fund to support research, especially in the global perspective.

A draft of NFOG fund has been made and will be presented...

Suggestions at GA 2010

NFOG Fund: To strengthen Scientific and Clinical

Cooperation

Towards high standard of training

Global reproductive health