Communications Committee

Roles & Responsibilities

Primary Roles

The EACD Communications Committee is installed with the goal of ensuring the dissemination of high quality, accessible information and resources relevant for the area of childhood-onset disabilities to the membership and the wider public

General Responsibilities

The EACD Communications Committee is responsible:

To ensure the visibility of the EACD organisation and its activities to the membership and the wider public. This includes among other the promotion of our EACD Annual Meeting, EACD Online Events, and our EACD Education Website via the various communication channels.
To ensure the EACD website is, and remains, up-to-date with events, news, resources, links or other relevant information for the membership and wider community. This also includes curating the content on the EACD Education website (e.g. updating outdated information, resources or links if needed).
To identify and collect potential scientific and educational content that contains accessible information and resources (developed by EACD or by third parties) relevant to the European context that aims to improve patient care and outcomes for people with childhood-onset disabilities, and that could be shared with the membership and wider community. This may include internet materials, journal articles, clinical guidelines, podcasts, videos, webinars, etc. The EACD Communications Committee is responsible for presenting any identified potential content of interest to the EACD Scientific Committee for approval prior to dissemination.
To disseminate high quality, accessible information and resources relevant to the European context that aim to improve patient care and outcomes for people with childhood-onset disabilities, for example via the EACD Education website or via EACD’s communication channels.
To publish a monthly newsletter with updates from EACD to the membership and wider community.
To maintain an active social media presence as EACD (Facebook, X, Instagram, LinkedIn, Threads).

Members

Chair

Álvaro Hidalgo-Robles, PT, MSc

Lecturer and Researcher at the
International University of La Rioja

SPAIN

Member (co-opted)

John Coughlan, PT, MSc

EACD Families & Users' Forum Representative;
Secretary General of ICPS and CP-ECA

LUXEMBOURG

Member (co-opted)

Dilara Bozgan, PT, MSc

EACD Early Career Researchers' Forum Representative;
PhD Student at the Hacettepe University

TURKEY

Member

Oleh Kachmar, MD, PhD

Head of Innovative Technologies Department and Information Center; International Clinic of Rehabilitation, Truskavets
UKRAINE

Member

Rachel Rapson, PT, PhD

Consultant Physiotherapist NHS and Honorary Clinical Associate Researcher at the University of Plymouth

UNITED KINGDOM

Accountability

EACD Communications Committee members are accountable to the EACD General Management Committee for the stated duties and responsibilities.

EACD MEMBER ACCOUNT

ABOUT ASSOCIATION

The European Academy of Childhood-onset Disability (EACD) is an international not-for-profit association founded in 1989, and is an association for anyone with a clinical and/or scientific interest in childhood-onset disabilities in Europe and beyond. EACD's mission is to promote research and education for the benefit of people with childhood-onset disabilities throughout Europe and beyond.

CONTACT

Email: admin@eacd.org