Governance

The EFSMA main body is the Executive Committee, which is composed by a President, the Past President, a first and second Vice-President, a Secretary General, a Treasurer, and 5 Members. Members of right of the Executive Committee, without right of vote, are:

the Chairman of the EFSMA Scientific and Education Commission;
the Chairman of the Medical and Scientific Commission of the European Olympic Committees;
a Coopted Member from the European College of Sport Science, designated by the EFSMA Executive Committee among the ECSS Founding Members

The Executive Committee has the right to appoint Observers nominated belonging to appropriate international organizations.
The Executive Committee has the right to nominate persons as Honorary President and Honorary Member. These proposals should be approved by the Council of Delegates.

Moreover, EFSMA’s Executive Committee is also supported by a Scientific and Education Commission, with the main duty of providing advices and making recommendations to the Committee.

The other Commission’s tasks are: to promote scientific research in the field of Sports Medicine, to prepare statements regarding specific problems in Sports Medicine proposed by the Executive Committee, to cooperate with the organizers of the EFSMA Congress of Sports Medicine as well as with the organizers of other international scientific events sponsored by EFSMA, to be involved into educational activities.

Current President of EFSMA is the Italian Maurizio Casasco MD, elected in November 2017.

	President: Prof. Maurizio Casasco, MD President of the Italian Federation of Sports Medicine Office: FMSI Viale Tiziano, 70 00196 Rome ITALY Tel: +39-06 8797 4905 E-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.	Past President: Dr André Debruyne, MD President of the Flemish Society of Sports Medicine Office: Kiewitstraat 141 3500 Hasselt BELGIUM Tel: +32 11 265100 Fax: +32 11 265101 E-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
	Honorary President: Prof. Norbert Bachl, MD Full Professor of Sports and Exercise Physiology Dean of the Faculty of Human and Social Sciences Head of the Institute of Sport Sciences Office: Institute of Sports Science University of Wien Department of Sports and Exercise Physiology Auf der Schmelz 6 A - 1150 Wien AUSTRIA Tel: +431 4277 48870 Fax: +431 4277 48879 E-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.	1st Vice-President: Prof. Konstantinos Natsis, MD Orthopedic Surgeon Honorary President of the Sports Medicine Association of Greece Office: Pl. Ippodromiou 17 546 21 Thessaloniki Greece Tel: +30 2310 99681 Fax: +30 2310 999334 E-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
	2nd Vice-President: Anna Jegier MD, Ph.D. Full Professor of Medicine Past President of Polish Society of Sports Medicine Office: Department of Sports Medicine Medical University of Lodz 251 Pomorska Street 92-213 Lodz Poland Tel: +48 606 246 381 Fax: +48 426757591 E-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.	Secretary General: Ms Theodora Papadopoulou, MD BSc (Sports), PGDip (SEM), MSc (Sp. Injuries), PhD Consultant Sport & Exercise Medicine Consultant Orthopedic Surgeon Secretary General EFSMA Executive Board Director BASEM British Association Sport and Exercise Medicine Secretary Development Commission FIMS Office : Defence Medical Rehabilitation Centre, Stanford Hall, Loughborough, LE12 5B, United Kingdom Email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Twitter: Dora_Sportmed Mobile: +44(0)7554530172
	Treasurer Dr João Paulo Pereira De Almeida, MD President of Portuguese Society of Sports Medicine Clinical Pathologist Office: Rua Viriato 27 - 3B 1600 - 176 Lisbon PORTUGAL Tel: +35 1917241340 E-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Elected EFSMA Members
	Professor Peter H. Schober, MD Vice President of the Austrian Society of Sports Medicine and Prevention Medical University of Graz Department of Pediatric Surgery Head of Pediatric Intensive Care Unit Office: Division of Sports Medicine Auenbruggerplatz 34 A-8036 Graz Austria Tel: +43 316 / 385 – 14125 Fax: +43 316 / 385 – 17504 E-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.	Prof. Dr. Nicholas Christodoulou European University Cyprus Office: School of Sciences Nicosia Cyprus Tel: +357 22 713248 E-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
	Prof. Dr. Herbert Löllgen MD FACC, FAHA, FFIMS European Cardiologist, Sports cardiology Int. Med., Cardiology Hon. Pres. German Fed. Sports Medicine Office: Bermesgasse 32b D-42897 Remscheid GERMANY Tel: +49 02191 65354 Fax +49 02191 610671 E-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. - This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.	Prof. Pedro Manonelles Marqueta MD Associate Professor President of the Spanish Federation of Sports Medicine Director of Archives of Sports Medicine Journal Chair Professor in Sports Medicine. Office: San Antonio Catholic University of Murcia Avda. de Movera nº 420-14 50194 – Zaragoza Spain Tel: +34 976 237129 E-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
	Assoc. Prof. Dr. Petra Zupet President of Slovenian Sports Medicine Association Office: Institute for Medicine and Sport Koprska 94A 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia Tel: +386 40 84 00 87 E-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.	FIMS President Prof. Fabio Pigozzi, MD Dean Full Professor of Internal Medicine Head of the Internal Medicine Unit Department of Health Sciences Office: University of Rome "Foro Italico" Piazza Lauro de Bosis, 15, 00135, Rome ITALY Tel: +39 06 36733 569/296 Fax: +39 06 3613065 E-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Co-Opted Members
	Prof. Dr. Vassilis Klissouras National & Kapodistrian University of Athens Office: 41 Ethnikis Antistassis str. 172 37 Athens Greece Tel: + 30 210 727 6040 Tel: + 30 210 727 6038 Fax: + 30 69444 51067 E-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
	Prof. Dr Boris Polyaev, MD Office: Ostrovityanova, 1 117 997 Moscow RUSSIA Tel: +7 903.7644484 Fax: +7 495.4345792 E-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
EFSMa SCIENTIFIC AND EDUCATION COMMISSION
	Chairman: Prof. Anca Ionescu, MD, Ph.D. Professor University of Medicine “Carol Davila” Head of the Sports Medicine Department President Romanian Society of Sports Medicine Bucharest Romania Tel: +40 752262756 Fax: +40 21 318 47 15 E-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
	Prof. Gerald GRUBER Assoc. Prof. NY, MD Department of Orthopedics, Medical University, Graz Auenbruggerplatz 5-7 8036 Grazt Austria Tel: 0043 385 874 34 E-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.	Prof. Andre-Xavier BIGARD MD, PhD Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) Chemin de la Melee, 12 1860 Aigle SWITZERLAND Tel: 0041 79 123 50 14 E-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
	Prof. Vincenzo IERACITANO MD, specialist in General Surgery, Emergency Surgery and Trauma, Sports Medicine Italian Federation of Sports Medicine Policlinico San Martino, Trauma Center 16132 Genova ITALY Tel: 0039 335 437897 E-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.	Prof. Mats BORJESSON MD, PhD Center for Health and performance and inst of Neuroscience and Physiology, Sahlgrenska Academy, Goteborg University Sahlgrenska University Hospital/Ostra 416 50 sweden Tel: 0046 705 298360 E-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
	Prof. Yannis PITSILADIS Professor of Sport and Exercise Science University of Brighton Welkin House, 30 Carlisle Road, Eastbourne BN20 7SN, UK Tel: +44 (0) 7818 550 188 E-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.