ONGOING ACTIVITIES
The current profile of EMA’s activities is open to contribution of Members and non-Members of EMA. It is coordinated by the Executive Vice President for Medical Research and International relations. The aim is to focus on relevant medical topics which are somewhat neglected or poorly promoted and developed. We strive to promote international working groups of experts, coordinated by reference members, with the aim of generating a consensus and drafting a document to be published in a peer-reviewed medical Journal and thereafter linked to the EMA’s web page.
A primary role in the Association is that of EMA Board Consultants. They are invited to join any of the already established working groups. They can propose themselves as the reference person: they will have the coordinating task of drafting the lines of the topic in focus and organizing the agenda the web-meetings on Teams, Zoom, Webex or as they prefer. Even a multi-person call, i.e. a group video-call on whatsapp, may be adequate. Moreover, EMA Board Consultants are invited to participate in the Annual Meeting of the European Medical Association, that this year, 2025 will be the 35th congress, focused primarily on Advances in eHealth and Clinical Innovation. The partner Journal Healthcare will host EMA’s Members contributions in its International Online Conference on Clinical Medicine 17 to 19 November 2025.
Submission is open, and registration and abstracts, if accepted, will be published free of charge.
Important Dates
Deadline for abstract submission: 18 August 2025
Notification of acceptance: 20 September 2025
Deadline for registration: 3 November 2025
The proposal of new working groups should be submitted to the President and/or the Executive vice President. If approved by the EMA Board, it will be published on the EMA webpage and announced as a post also in social media. Proposals can be submitted by a Member of the Association, also jointly with non-members and must include goals, context of action, target audience and final deliverables (policy briefs, position statements, position papers, scientific articles, conferences or educational courses proceedings).
The proposal of topical collections of HealthCare Journal should be submitted preliminarily to the EMA President and, when accepted, will be submitted for consideration and approval to the Journal’s Editor in Chief and Managing Editor.
See below for the preliminary structure of the working groups and detail on the focus(es) on each thematic areas.
Call to propose new topics and to participate in existing or new working groups is open, to Ema and to non-EMA members: please, address, please, to Vincenzo Costigliola, MD, EMA’s President or to Guglielmo Trovato, MD, Executive VicePresident
The identification of reference and proposing members who have been preliminarily planned.
- Environment and Health: Prisco Piscitelli, Giovanni Leonardi
- Prehabilitation and rehabilitation: Nidal Tourkmani, Rosario Caruso, Luigi Bonavina, Guglielmo Trovato,
- New strategies of intervention in public health issues and chronic disease: Luigi Bonavina, Guglielmo Trovato
- Telemedicine: current and innovative technologies and applications: Francesco Amenta, Rosario Squatrito
- History of Medicine. Teresa Abbattista, Antonio Molfese
- The global burden of female genital mutilations: Giulia Bonavina, Randa Kaltoud
- Predictive, preventive, and personalized medicine: Vincenzo Costigliola, and Guglielmo Trovato.
European Commission Consultations
Currently, EMA is providing contributions for some of the topics focused on of European Commission Consultations. Call for contributions is open: please, address your suggestions to the Presidency.
“Have your say” is the official website of Public Consultations and Feedback with the EU Parliament and Commission. Citizens and businesses can share their views on new EU policies and on forthcoming and existing laws. EMA participates actively with several types of contributions.
- Open topics here
- EU life sciences strategy here
- GreenData4All – updated rules on geospatial environmental data and access to environmental information here
- Towards a circular, regenerative and competitive bioeconomy here
Perspective and ideas
A particular perspective is a particular way of thinking about something, especially one that is influenced by your beliefs or experiences. A hypothesis is an idea which is suggested as a possible explanation for a particular situation or condition, but which has not yet been proved to be correct.
A call is open and any Member can propose to the Presidency a “out of the box” topic. This can be developed with the deputed Board Consultant for the publication as an article in the LinkedIn EMA page and, if suitable, submitted to a peer reviewed Journal.
Share your experiences with the President
Each month an online meeting, headed by the President, will explore with the Board Consultants recent developments in medical science and clinical practice or other agreed topics. Meetings will be open to any professional participant, registered, and are suitable to be published in this page. The meetings are recorded for potential publication on the EMA video channel, and for dissemination.
Announcements and dissemination.
EPALE is the European Electronic Platform for Adult Learning in Europe. EMA participates actively with several types of contributions, announcing forthcoming meetings and publishing the reports. here