Dear ICCS member
With our annual conference in Louisville Kentucky approaching, I would like to hereby give you an update on the current activities of the ICCS.
The 2024 ICCS CONFERENCE and beyond
I am very much looking forward to meeting many of our members at the 2024 ICCS conference wich is scheduled for September 12th -14th 2024 at Marriott Louisville Kentucky USA and will be held in collaboration with Pediatric Urology Nurses & Specialists (PUNS) and Societies for Pediatric Urology (SPU). The organizers have assembled a great program which will be soon available on the meetings homepage http://fallcongress.spuonline.org.
The General assembly is scheduled for Friday September 13th at 13:00 local time.
Preparations are fully underway for the 2025 ICCS conference which will be held in Vienna Austria in collaboration with the European Society of Pediatric Urology (ESPU) and Societies of Pediatric Urology (SPU). Mark the date, the meeting is scheduled for September 3-6, 2025. The venue will be the Austria Center in Vienna.
Educational activities
We continue providing our members with the opportunity to attend webinars on various topics. We aim to provide our members with the recordings that we soon will post on our homepage. Here in July Dr Anne Wright provided us with an excellent overview of giggle incontinence. More webinars are beings scheduled as we speak.
In a collaboration between the ESPU and ICCS the Urotherapy certification program is to begin in October 2024 providing the possibility for urotherapists and other health care professionals to train in childhood incontinence. You can find more information on the program on our homepage.
An ICCS course is scheduled for November 21-22 in Barcelona Spain with the final program being underway.
For more information on scheduled courses and meetings please visit our homepage www.i-c-c-s.org.
Board member vacancy
As my term is about to finish this year after 8 years at the board, a position at the board will be vacant for a pediatric nephrologist with interest in pediatric incontinence. Any member that would like to apply can contact our secretary. A CV and a motivation letter will be needed for the application. The ICCS board will identify and support a nominee for the position, however it is the General Assembly that would have the final word among all applicants at the upcoming meeting in Kentucky.
Bylaw revision
We are in the process of revising the ICCS bylaws with the main changes being a shortening of the duration for board membership from 4 to 3 years with the possibility of one re-election.
Regarding the ex-officios for scientific and educational chairs the duration will also be limited to three years with the possibility of one re-appointment. In the members section of the ICCS homepage you can see the suggested changes.
These revisions need to be approved by our members by voting during the upcoming General Assembly in Louisville Kentucky.
I hope to see you all in Louisville Kentucky in September!
Best regards
Konstantinos Kamperis MD, PhD
President, International Children’s Continence Society
Associate Professor in pediatrics, Consultant in Pediatric Nephrology
Aarhus, Danmark
