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Japan junior exchange program 2024-2025 - Congratulations!

Last updates Nov 1, 2024

This year, there was again a large interest from our juniors to participate in the junior exchange program between AEPC and the Japanese Society of Pediatric Cardiology & Cardiac Surgery (JSPCCS) 

This exchange program - a visit to a paediatric cardiology institute in Japan for a training period of at least 4 weeks - was created to promote international collaboration and provides an opportunity to support the careers of our junior members. Junior members in good standing were can apply for this exchange program, The counter program from JSPCCS will provide an opportunity for three fellows from Japan to visit European institutes in the same period.

We thank all applicants for their participation (and of course encourage those who did not win this year, to apply again next year) and we congratulate the AEPC Junior member winners:

  1. Catarina Almeida (Portugal) → Department of Cardiology, Nagano Children’s Hospital, Nagano
  2. Michal Jicinsky (Czech Republic) → Department of Cardiology, Kanagawa Children’s Medical Center, Yokohama
  3. Lacramioara-Eliza Chiperi (Romania) → Division of Cardiology, National Center for Child Health and Development, Tokyo

The awardees have been be informed about the allocated insititution, and are currently in the process of planning their trips!

AEPC will pay for the economy class return ticket to Japan, and provide pocket money to the awardees.

We look forward to hearing more about their experience in the coming months!

Vice versa, 2 winners from Japan will be coming to Europe:

  1. Maasa Sato → L'Hopital Necker Paris, France - Damien Bonnet
  2. Yoshihito Morimoto → Sant Joan de Déu Hospital Barcelona, Spain - Georgia Sarquella-Brugada

We thank our European hosts for providing their expertise and opening their centre to Japanese fellows!

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