Dear Colleague:

The XXIII. International Winter Meeting of the Swiss Society of Neuropathology

Growth and Death in the Nervous System

to be held in St. Moritz, March 18-21, 2010, is approaching fast.

Herewith, we would like to draw your attention to this upcoming event where leading experts will give an overview on the most recent and exciting advances in the neurosciences.

Please note: We have reserved a limited room contingent at the traditional meeting venue, Hotel "Laudinella", which can only be held till January 25th. Rooms that have not been reserved by that time will have to be returned to the hotel's disposition.

Therefore, we strongly advise to register for this meeting within the next days via the meeting website www.ssn.uzh.ch/stmoritz/home.html For details regarding the meeting's program we would like to refer you to the next side of this announcement.

Looking forward to welcome you in St. Moritz,

Stephan Frank & Markus Tolnay

Swiss Federation of Clinical Neuro-Societies SFCNS

The Swiss Federation of Clinical Neuro-Societies SFCNS was founded in 2009 as a federation of accredited medical societies and professional associations with a background and main interest in the field of the clinical neurosciences. Its aim is to promote the clinical neurosciences in Switzerland and to strengthen the interdisciplinary collaboration with other neuroscientific organisations. The founding members of the SFCNS are:

• Swiss Neurological Society SNS

• Swiss Society of Neurosurgery SSN

• Swiss Society of Clinical Neurophysilology SSNC

• Swiss Society of Neuropediatrics SSNP

• Swiss Society of Neuroradiology SSNR

• Swiss Society of Neuropathology SSNPath

The federation should formalise and structure the joint medico-political, educational and clinical research efforts. Its further aim is to hold common meetings on a regular basis to facilitate mutual interactions and be open also to other medical groups pursuing clinical neuroscience interests. The SFCNS is not meant for individual membership, but for collective membership.

The SFCNS will hold its first congress from June 2-4, 2010 at the Congress Center Basel.

Main topics will be cerebrovascular diseases, epilepsy, and back problems (spine and spinal cord). A great accentuation shall be on the topic of stroke. We will have a round table with representants from the most important political and medical societies on that behalf and the six founding societies will fortify their collaboration as to have the most recent developments in Switzerland included in the congress presentations.

We are glad to welcome you numerously on the first congress of the SFCNS!

Administrative office of the Swiss Federation of Clinical Neuro-Societies SFCNS

Frau Gabriela Deutsch

c/o IMK Institute for medicine and communication Ltd

Münsterberg 1

CH-4001 Basel

Phone +41 (0) 61 271 35 51

Fax +41 (0) 61 271 33 38

sfcns@imk.ch