The seventh Business meeting was held in Yerevan, Armenia on February 2019. The Board of Directors included 23 present members with Dr. Abdul-Hakim al-Rawas as Chair, Dr. Asim Belgaumi as a Vice Chair and Dr. Samar Muwakkit as Treasurer. Dr. Raya Saab and Dr. Anas Obeid were present from the POEM central office and Dr. Sima Jeha and Ms. Lisa Krull from SJCRH Global Medicine program.
During the meeting, several points were discussed and agreed on which include:
- Importance of case discussion forums and suggestions to improve their attendance.
- The BOD agreed on the importance of activating the solid tumors WG and the radiation oncology WG, and will each encourage. specialists from their countries to apply for membership.
- Nurses registering for POEM to be automatically added to Nursing WG.
- Updates were provided regarding different working groups and POEM website.
- BODs agreed on organizing the process of applying to the training grant program.
- Postponing the election of EC members of next year to April 2020 in order to coincide with the elections of the BODs and set the cornerstone of the new tenure strategy.
- Next business meeting on October during SIOP France 2019.
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