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16 March 2012
Dear Members of the Nordic Fertility Society,
The NFS congress 6-8th, August 2012 is coming closer. The venue for the congress is Grand Marina Congress Centre in Helsinki, Finland. Aarne Koskimies is chairman for the local organizing committee and the final program has just been announced at the webpage. Oocyte vitrification, periconceptional medicine and fertility preservation are just some of the intriguing subjects for the plenary and parallel sessions.
Abstracts can be submitted from primo April 2012 and the abstract deadline is May 31st, 2012. Selected abstract will be published in ACTA Obstetricia et Gynecolgica Scandinavica. For more information please look at the NFS congress link under “news”.
The NFS webpage has undergone a range of updates and renewals among others the payment system has been optimized. Therefore PLEASE PAY YOUR NFS FEE FOR 2011 and 2012. Your congress fee will be reduced, if you are a paying member of NFS.
The NFS board has decided to limit the Nordic evidence-based guidelines to four of specific interest for the Nordic countries. These guidelines are: 1) Psychosocial aspects of infertility problems, 2) Treatment with cryopreserved embryos and oocytes, 3) Quality assurance and statistics, 4) Legal aspects of Infertility Treatment. The NFS board has decided to include one of the Nordic guidelines as a round table discussion, at the next NFS congress. “Psychosocial aspects of infertility problems” has been chosen in 2012.
The NFS board is currently discussing a change of the NFS to a federation of the four national societies. NFS as a federation will ease the election of new board members and further make continuity on the board, as board members will be replaced continuously. This change will require a change of the NFS bylaws and this proposal will be presented at the general assembly in Helsinki August 2012. If the suggestion is accepted by the general assembly, the bylaw change can be exaggerated at the next general assembly at the congress, winter 2014. All NFS members will be informed in due course before the NFS congress by e-mail and at the webpage, where the new proposal for bylaws will be available at least four weeks before the congress.
Haugesund, Norway has offered to host the NFS meeting in the winter 2014 and Iceland to host in the summer 2015.
The next NFS board meeting will be a telephone meeting and is scheduled on May 22nd, 2012.
Looking forward to seeing you in Helsinki, August 2012.
Anja Pinborg
NFS president
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