EADV 2023 – Berlin
This year the global EADV (European Academy of Dermatology & Venereology) conference was organized in Berlin from October 11 – 14, 2023. It was another large conference with more than 600 speakers from more than 50 different countries with a total of 180 sessions and 15,800 participants. CMTC-OVM was represented by: Laurens Rorive, Naomi Rorive […]
CORD members meeting 2023
Our Patient Advocate Katie Allen attended the CORD membership meeting on behalf of our organization. After a quick fix on some name issues, we were off and running accepting the 2022 minutes. Then we moved on to the financial statements which are looking good. Finances are up from an increase in activity after COVID-19 but […]
Blog Katie Allen October 2023
Happy Fall and, from Canada, Happy Thanksgiving! One of our local farms does a pumpkin festival every autumn, as well as a tulip festival in the spring, it’s always fun to see how they repurpose their decorations between the events. The windmills are just as cute surrounded by pumpkins as in the tulips. These past […]
New: Parents Support Guide for the Unborn Child
In collaboration with Dr. Sarah Sheppard (National Institute of Health- NIH, USA), Dr. Dhyanam Shukla (University of Philadelphia), Erica Schindewolf MS LCGC (University of Philadelphia) and Jennifer Ortiz, we have developed a new parent support guide for the unborn child in multiple languages. Parents support guide unborn child
Become a member and pay only euro 25 this year!
We offer membership at a lower rate (only euro 25) for the rest of the year! You can also participate in our global members conference in the Netherlands during the last weekend of October. Member registration More information and registration members conferentie
Blog Katie Allen September 2023
Rocking the new brace! A few months ago, I posted that I had been cleared to purchase a new stabilizing knee brace and that I had received funding to support this expensive venture. As of this month, I officially started to wear the new 3D-printed stabilizing brace. For some context, I had a fibreglass brace […]
Family Day 2023: Efteling
On Saturday, July 1, the participants gathered at the Efteling hotel around 9 am. A total of 86 people were present from Belgium, Germany, the Netherlands and Austria. The weather was cloudy and there was a little rain, but that didn’t spoil the fun! An advantage was that it was quite quiet in the morning […]
Blog Katie Allen August 2023
One tense moment for anyone with multiple doctors and specialists is when they disagree or need different things. One moment I recently went through was a change in regulation regarding referrals, where my specialist was now required to get a referral more often than my family doctor thought necessary. It led to tense appointments with […]
Agenda and registration worldwide member conference Netherlands 2023
On Friday evening, October 27, our worldwide membership conference will start again in the Netherlands! Saturday 28 October we have a very varied program for all ages including dinner. On Sunday 29 October we will also go further and close our members conference after lunch. At the request of our members, we offer sessions in […]
Data allowed on servers in the USA
The European Union and the USA have reached an agreement on the exchange of data belonging to European citizens. This means that companies are once again allowed to save our data on American servers. One of the new amendments is that American intelligence agencies cannot unjustifiably access personal data from the EU. Furthermore, an agency […]