Minutes of the 11th General Assembly of the International Association of Physicians in Audiology held in Manchester on 14th July 1999.
1. Present:
Dai Stephens (in the chair)
Tapani Jauhianinen (Vice-President)
Bo Walter (Treasurer)
Karin Schorn (Secretary)
and 57 members of the Association
2. - Minutes of previous meeting of the 10th General Assembly held in Aalborg on Mai 1997 were approved.
3. - Report of the President;
Prof. I. T. Taylor becomes a new Member of Honour.
The President will get in touch with Konrad Konradsson to discuss a connection between the Audiological Physicians and the Phoniatrics. He will invite some representatives of the European Countries to Brussels in January or February 2000 to discuss the situation.
4. - Report of the General Secretary;
The revision of the apllication form concerning the mount of fee and the posibilities of payment is planed.
5. - Treasurer's Report
The new treasurer Bo Walter got a CD ROM from the former treasurer José Barajas. He found out that there is a request for payment. Therefore, he wrote to 600 paying and not paying members to recall the payment in her mind. Bo Walter prefers the credit cars as paying method.
6. - Officers, National Representatives, Members;
The Present Vice-Presiedent Tapani Jauhianinen will retire in 2001. Therrefore, he does not feel able to become president in the next 4 year period.
The President proposed to elect 2 Vice-Presidents in the future, 1 Vice-President coming from a country where audiology is recognized as speciality, namely U.K., Sweden or Denmark and 1 from a country with no officially recognized audiology. This proposal was ratifyed of the General Assembly. As Vice-President fro the group of recognized countries Agnete Parving from Denmark and for the non recognized county José Barajas from Spain is recommended and uniquely accepted by the General Assembly.
As Agnete Parving was not in the Executive Committee until now and José Barajas just finished his position as treasurer. Day Stephens agreed to take the service as President 2 years longer, because he aknowledged the necessity.
The list of the National Representatives has to be updated, because there is a request of paying members.
7. - The Journal;
In the future 3 editors will work together, namely Alessandro Martini as executive editor, Linda Luxom responsible for papers and newslatters, and Dai Stephens becomes reviewer's editor. Furthermore, the president will get in contact with Valerie Newton and Konrad Konradsson to ask them for participation in publishing the journal.
The President recommended to send a free copy of the journal to the Honorary Members.
8. - Texbook, European Courses;
The President reported that the first 20 chapters of the textbook are finished, written by different people. The chapters are edited by Day Stephens, Linda Luxon, Allesandro Martini, and Dr. Ferman.
9. - Hearing International;
Karin Schorn reported of the Hearing International Retreat, which was to be held in Copenhagen in April 1999 and where 11 Exective Committee members and delegates of adjoining associations were present. The following consesus was achieved by work:
- There is a need for HI.
- The missions outlined in the Victoria/Graz declartion are the basis of HI.
- Te affiliation of HI/IFOS/ISA centres should be strengthened with formal requirements of colloboration / inclusion / co-ordination with lay-organisations.
10. -Symposium Manchester 1999;
Valerie Newton reported that the meeting was a full success. Over 20 countries are represented and more than 160 people had registred.
11. -Symposium Italy 2002;
The organizer of the next meeting in Italy, Eduardo Arslan is replaced by Eva Orzan. She invited cordialy the IAPA members to participate the meeting.
The President reports that a second invitation to organize the meeting 2002 has been pronounced by N. Eleftheriades from Thessaloniki, Greece. The Assembly decided that the meeting 2002 should take place in Italy and the meeting place 2004 should be in Greece or alternatively in Bordeaux on invitation of Lionel Collet.
The topic of the Executive Committee for the meeting 2002 is: Central disorders of hearing and balance. As coordinator Tapani Jauhianinen was recommended. The members of the General Assembly elected (second ballot) the panel "Genetics of inner ear disorder". As coordination Guy van Cam was recommended.
Karin Schorn was pushed to organize an Interim Meeting in Munich. She has doubts to organize it, because the costs in Munich are very high, and not so many German doctors will be interested in the IAPA meeting.
12. -Any other business;
No matters arised.
