Young ESPID

Young ESPID is a group of members who are in training and in early career. They are either members under 40 years old and/or members who are still in training*.

A member can no longer be a member of YE after his/her position no longer meets at least one of the above criteria.

*Individuals > 40 years old, must provide membership@espid.org proof of training status to maintain their YE membership. By providing proof of training, the member receives a 2-year extension to remain in the YE community.

Individuals > 42 years old who are still in training, due to special life circumstances (e.g. maternity/paternity or sick leave, or other), must provide to ESPID a second proof of training status, if they wish to maintain their YE membership. By providing this second proof of training, the member can receive another, final, 2-year extension to remain in YE community.

Welcome message

Welcome to “Young ESPID”, the future of Paediatric Infectious Diseases in Europe and beyond. “Young ESPID” was founded in 2010, we started with 35 members and in 2017 we are now just over 500 from 75 different countries. As a group of under-40s we support the ESPID board and its committees. We also have YE country representatives from 35 different countries that help us link with PID doctors and spread the word of ESPID job and training opportunities elsewhere.
 
All the ESPID committees have 2 Young ESPID members and are currently focusing on:
 
- Facilitating communication between ESPID members
- Participation in educational activities: ESPID online courses, ESPID case rounds
- Active roll in preparing the ESPID annual meeting
- Young ESPID meeting – formal YE Meeting (previously known as AGM) since 2016 attending the YE Meeting gets you good standing points - helpful for applying for travel awards / grants
- SpeedNetworking
- MTP (meet the professor sessions)
- WMW (Walter Marget workshop)
- ERMC (ESPID research masterclass)
- ESPID educational booth
- Evaluating PID training world-wide
- Improvement of the ESPID website
- Visibility of training possibilities and job opportunities
- Visibility of research consortia
 
The Young ESPID representatives are also on the ESPID board and take an active part in all their meetings making sure ESPID is aware of what their more junior PID doctors need and expect from the society.
 
We want to invite you to become actively involved in Young ESPID, and take your chance to help shape the future of Paediatric Infectious Diseases.
 
New ideas are always welcome!
 
If you are interested in contributing to any of these activities and would like to be kept up-to-date on Young ESPID you can contact us through youngespid@espid.org
 
With kind regards,
 
Eleni Vergadi & Danilo Buonsenso
 
This years YE Meeting Agenda can be viewed here.
This years YE Meeting Minutes can be viewed here.
 
 
Young ESPID representatives 
 
 
Who’s involved in Young ESPID?
 
 
Country Representative Term Began YE Email Senior ESPID Rep  Senior Email Term Began
Armenia Anahit Grigoryan Aug-24 aaagrig@yahoo.com Hrachuhi Ghazaryan   2024
Australia Li Jun Thean Oct-24 theanlijun@gmail.com      
Austria Sebastian Baier-Grabner Jan-24 sebastian.grabner@hotmail.com      
Belgium Bieke Tack Aug-24 btack@itg.be      
Brasil Daniela Caldas Teixeira Aug-24 caldas.dani@gmail.com Prof. Eitan Naaman Berezin    2024
Bulgaria Petar Velikov Aug-24 petar.kr.velikov@gmail.com      
Cambodia Sam Lyvannak   vannak_samly@yahoo.com      
Canada Stephanie Zahradnik  Apr-24 stephanie.zahradnik@sickkids.ca Dr Manish Sadarangani   2024
Croatia Dominik Ljubas May-25 dominikljubas4@gmail.com     2025
Cyprus  Athina Aristidou Jun-24 athina.aristeidou@hotmail.com Dr Maria Mazeri Koliou   2024
Czech Republic Jitka Bolchová Sep-24 jitka.bolchova@gmail.com      
Ecuador Dolores Freire Oct-24 dolores.freire@yahoo.com      
Egypt Eman Hamza Sep-24 hamzaeman2011@gmail.com Ali Sobh   2024
Estonia Anna-Liisa Kerna Apr-24 annaliisav@gmail.com Piia Jogi   2024
Finland Maria Hemming-Harlo Aug-24 maria.hemming-harlo@fimnet.fi      
France Zein Assad Mar-24 assad.zein@gmail.com Pr Naim Ouldali    2024
Germany Benedikt Spielberger Feb-23 benedikt.spielberger@uniklinik-freiburg.de      
Greece Dimitra Dimopoulou Aug-24 dimi_med@hotmail.com Professor Athanasios Michos & Professor Maria Tsolia   2024
Hungary  Ferenc Balázs Farkas Aug-24 ferenc.balazs.farkas@gmail.com Krisztina Kalocsai   2024
India Akshatha Ravindra Apr-24 drakshathadmid@gmail.com Dr Vidya Krishna   2024
Ireland Jennifer Cox Aug-24 coxje@tcd.ie Dr Julie Lucey   2024
Israel David Levy Aug-24 doodylevy@gmail.com Liat Ashkenazi   2024
Italy Alfredo Diana Jun-24 alfredodiana93@gmail.com Professor Andrea Lo Vecchio    2024
Kyrgyzstan Elvira Isaeva May-25 rhc358@sund.ku.dk      
Malawi Lilian Beatrice Jun-24 lilianbeatrice1@gmail.com      
Malaysia Bazlin Ramly  Mar-23 bazlinramly@gmail.com Dr Asrar Abu Bakar   2024
Nepal Saugat Bhandari Feb-24 saugatbhandari2014@gmail.com      
Nigeria Olajumoke Aladenola Jan-23 jumoke.aladenola@yahoo.com      
Pakistan Abdul Mannan Mustafa Jan-23 abdulmannan100598@gmail.com      
Poland Kacper Toczylowski Mar-23 kacper.toczylowski@mail.com      
Portugal Inês Taborda Jun-24 inestaborda95@gmail.com Dr. Ana Brett    2024
Romania Ioana Arbanas May-24 ioanaarbanas.md@gmail.com Oana Falup-Pecurariu   2024
Slovenia Alenka Koren Aug-24 alenka.koren88@gmail.com Marko Pokorn    2024
Spain Carlos Grasa Oct-23 carlosdgl_125@hotmail.com      
Sweden Annika Malmgren  Jun-22 annika.malmgren87@gmail.com Olof Hertting   2024
Switzerland Chiara Minotti Aug-24 Chiara.Minotti@ukbb.ch Julia Bielicki    2024
Tanzania Daniel Joshua Jun-24 jumoke.aladenola@yahoo.com      
The Netherlands Niek Achten Aug-24 n.achten@erasmusmc.nl Annemarie van Rossum    2024
Turkey Gizem Güner Özenen May-25 gzmguner86@gmail.com Assoc. Prof. Dr. Zümrüt Şahbudak Bal    2025
United Kingdom Eimear Kelly Aug-24 eimear.kelly@paediatrics.ox.ac.uk Simon Drysdale   2024
 
 
Young ESPID representatives on the ESPID Board: Eleni Vergadi (2023-2026) and Danilo Buonsenso (2024-2027)

 
You can find recent updates on the activities in the committees in our newsletters.
 
Are you interested in one of the activities, please do contact us!
 
Young ESPID country representatives aim to represent their country and be a liaison between Young ESPID board representatives and Young ESPID members.
The above Young ESPID members represent their countries for 2 years, after which new applicants may come forward. If no-one comes forward then the current representative remains in place.
Interested in becoming a country representative and your country is not listed above? Please contact us at youngespid@espid.org and we will send you the information about how to apply.