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 35^th 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.