FDIME activities during ECIM 2025, March 5 – 8 in Florence
- March 21, 2025
- Foundation for the Development of Internal Medicine in Europe
ECIM (European Congress of Internal Medicine) 2026 Vienna, March 25-28
The European Congress of Internal Medicine (ECIM) 2026 was held in Vienna, March 25-28.
The venue was the magnificent Hofburg, a monumental building in the centre of the city. It was attended by more than 2500 delegates from all over Europe and beyond. Because of the trouble in the Middle East some of the presentations had to be through a video recording.
Because it was the 30th anniversary of EFIM the openings ceremony included short videos of previous EFIM Presidents and Founders. Many of the present FDIME Board members participated in this session. They all received a token of appreciation with an inscription from the current EFIM President George Dalekos.
During the congress all FDIME Board members had various tasks, such as chairing, presenting and moderating.
On Friday March 27 the FDIME/EFIM session took place. The session was mainly devoted to the Alatheia (this means Truth in Greece language) project, which concerns an AI project on complex multimorbid cases. Two cases were presented by Christel Gerardin, the leading scientist/internist of the project. There was a large number of attendants and ample discussion. Christel also presented during another plenary session and in that the session the Alatheia project was mentioned and shown.
On Saturday March 28 the Awards Ceremony unfortunately started about half an hour early and for that reason not all winners could be in time for their short presentation or the handing out of their diplomas.
The winners of the 2024 Grants were:
Romain Guitton (France)
Project: “Impact of C5aR1 blockade on biomarkers of kidney injury and kidney outcomes in ANCA associated vasculitis. “
Department of Medicine, University of Cambridge, UK from November 1st, 2024, to October 31st, 2025, under the supervision of Professor David Jayne
Dmytro Molotiagin (Ukraine)
Project: “Improving the prediction of heart Failure development in patients with concurrent hypertension, obesity and diabetes mellitus”.
Study conducted in Ukraine due to the political situation.
Dmytro Molotiagin gave his short presentation through a video connection.
A jury, chaired by Stefan Lindgren selected the three best abstracts and three prizes were given as follows:
1st
1st Prize:
Carolina Hincapie Osorno from Groningen, The Netherlands
Implications of different SOFA score variants for sepsis identification and outcome prediction in emergency department patients with an infection: a multicenter cohort study
2nd
2nd Prize:
Yonatan Shneor Patt from Tel-Hashomer, Ramat Gan, Israel
Malignancy risk and predictors in dermatomyositis and polymyositis
3rd
3rd Prize:
Javier Arenas-Montes from Cordoba, Spain
Gut microbiota and prediction of recurrence of cardiovascular disease according to diet
Carolina Hincapie Osorno received her diploma and the check on the spot.
And as usual Samia Jeanbart took care of the FDIME booth at the exhibition hall.
Other years
FDIME activities during ECIM 2024, 5 – 9 March in Istanbul
- March 22, 2024
FDIME activities during ECIM 2023, 15 -18 March in Athens
- April 6, 2023
Short report 20th European Congress of Internal Medicine (ECIM), Malaga Spain
- October 31, 2022
ECIM 18, Lisbon 29-31 August 2019
- May 18, 2021
ECIM 18, Lisbon 29-31 August 2019, Award Ceremony
- October 3, 2019