Season’s greetings from EFP President Søren Jepsen
Dear colleagues, friends and partners,
Media & Health Promotion Workshop: the EFP plans big promotional campaign for its 25th anniversary with a wide range of activities
Members of the executive committee and all the EFP’s committees met in Madrid from November 7 to 9, at the Media and Health Promotion Workshop, to draw up a communications plan for 2016.
University of Gothenburg presents honorary doctorate to Mariano Sanz
The Sahlgrenska Academy at the University of Gothenburg in Sweden presented an honorary doctorate to Prof Mariano Sanz, chairman of the European Workshop in Periodontology, at a ceremony on October 15.
Top German university awards honorary doctorate to Harvard researcher Thomas Van Dyke
The University of Giessen in Germany has awarded an honorary doctorate to Prof. Dr. Thomas Van Dyke, chair of the Department of Applied Oral Health Sciences at the Forsyth Institute (Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA).
EFP joins key European initiative on chronic diseases
The EFP has been accepted as a collaborating partner in the Chrodis joint action, a European Union initiative, whose primary goal is “addressing chronic diseases and healthy ageing across the life cycle”.
Sören Jepsen leads EFP delegation to European Parliament to convey message that ‘gum health matters’
A top-level EFP delegation, led by president Sören Jepsen, visited the European Parliament in Brussels on June 17 for a packed agenda of meetings and networking in which they highlighted the importance of gum health to improving the health and wellbeing of European citizens, as well as public health in the European Union.
Nairn Wilson, new BDA president, calls for integrated healthcare with emphasis on prevention
Professor Nairn Wilson, honorary professor of dentistry at King’s College London, was inaugurated as the 129th president of the British Dental Association (BDA) in a ceremony at the association’s recent annual conference in Manchester.
