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201 202<main id="site-main" class="light-blue events-page"> 203 <div class="container top-spacer"> 204 <div class="row justify-content-md-center"> 205 <div class="col-md-7"> 206 <div class="page-title"> 207 <h1>History of IMGA</h1> 208 </div> 209 <div id="content" role="main"> 210 211 <p>IMGA in its present form was founded in January 2004, but began as an idea ten years before in 1996 when a working group on Medical Geology was established by IUGS.</p> 212<p>Its primary aim was to increase awareness among scientists, medical specialists and the general public on the importance of geological factors for health and wellbeing. It was recognised that the limited extent of cooperation and communication among these groups restricted the ability of scientists and public health workers to solve a range of complex environmental health problems. Below follows the history and emergence of IMGA in its current form.</p> 213 </div> 214 </div> 215 </div> 216 217 218 219 220 221 222 <div class="row justify-content-md-center"> 223 <div class="col-auto"> 224 <div class="year-container"> 225 <div class="year-circle" data-aos="fade-up" data-aos-duration="1000" data-aos-anchor-placement="top-bottom"> 226 <div class="year-text"> 227 1996 </div> 228 </div> 229 </div> 230 </div> 231 <div class="col-md-6"> 232 <div class="year-content" data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-duration="1000" data-aos-anchor-placement="top-bottom"> 233 <p>The IUGS commission COGEOENVIRONMENT establishes a working group on Medical Geology.</p> 234 </div> 235 </div> 236 </div> 237 238 <div class="row justify-content-md-center"> 239 <div class="col-auto"> 240 <div class="year-container"> 241 <div class="year-circle" data-aos="fade-up" data-aos-duration="1000" data-aos-anchor-placement="top-bottom"> 242 <div class="year-text"> 243 1997 </div> 244 </div> 245 </div> 246 </div> 247 <div class="col-md-6"> 248 <div class="year-content" data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-duration="1000" data-aos-anchor-placement="top-bottom"> 249 <p>The working group met at the 4th International Symposium on Environmental Geochemistry. The term “Medical Geology” was adopted.</p> 250 </div> 251 </div> 252 </div> 253 254 <div class="row justify-content-md-center"> 255 <div class="col-auto"> 256 <div class="year-container"> 257 <div class="year-circle" data-aos="fade-up" data-aos-duration="1000" data-aos-anchor-placement="top-bottom"> 258 <div class="year-text"> 259 1998 </div> 260 </div> 261 </div> 262 </div> 263 <div class="col-md-6"> 264 <div class="year-content" data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-duration="1000" data-aos-anchor-placement="top-bottom"> 265 <p>Workshop with working group in Uppsala, Sweden. Discussions on preparing a textbook on Medical Geology.</p> 266 </div> 267 </div> 268 </div> 269 270 <div class="row justify-content-md-center"> 271 <div class="col-auto"> 272 <div class="year-container"> 273 <div class="year-circle" data-aos="fade-up" data-aos-duration="1000" data-aos-anchor-placement="top-bottom"> 274 <div class="year-text"> 275 2000 </div> 276 </div> 277 </div> 278 </div> 279 <div class="col-md-6"> 280 <div class="year-content" data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-duration="1000" data-aos-anchor-placement="top-bottom"> 281 <p>A combined meeting and workshop held in Uppsala was attended by 50 people, and included a two-day seminar: “The Geochemical Environment and Human Health”, resulting in a proceedings volume.</p> 282<p>The International Geologic Correlations Programme established a new programme: IGCP 454 Medical Geology, jointly sponsored by UNESCO and IUGS. It was chaired by Olle Selinus (Sweden) and co-chaired by Peter Bobrowsky (Canada) and Ed Derbyshire (UK). The aim was to bring together scientists working on Medical Geology issues from the developed and the developing world, focusing on capacity building, training and exchange of information, research and laboratory experiences.</p> 283<p>Bob Finkelman and Jose Centeno, both from the US, joined. They brought with them a short course on the health impacts of trace elements and metal ions that was later developed into the short course on Medical Geology</p> 284 </div> 285 </div> 286 </div> 287 288 <div class="row justify-content-md-center"> 289 <div class="col-auto"> 290 <div class="year-container"> 291 <div class="year-circle" data-aos="fade-up" data-aos-duration="1000" data-aos-anchor-placement="top-bottom"> 292 <div class="year-text"> 293 2001 </div> 294 </div> 295 </div> 296 </div> 297 <div class="col-md-6"> 298 <div class="year-content" data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-duration="1000" data-aos-anchor-placement="top-bottom"> 299 <p>Bob Finkelman and Jose Centeno presented a much appreciated one-day course on Medical Geology at the COGEOEMVIRONMENT meeting in Lusaka, Zambia and at the University of Zambia. It was decided that the short course would be brought to developing countries which faced critical Medical Geology problems. This proposal was supported by the International Commission on Scientific Unions (ICSC) who granted $50,000 in support of short courses in Medical Geology to be held in 2002-2003.</p> 300 </div> 301 </div> 302 </div> 303 304 <div class="row justify-content-md-center"> 305 <div class="col-auto"> 306 <div class="year-container"> 307 <div class="year-circle" data-aos="fade-up" data-aos-duration="1000" data-aos-anchor-placement="top-bottom"> 308 <div class="year-text"> 309 2002 </div> 310 </div> 311 </div> 312 </div> 313 <div class="col-md-6"> 314 <div class="year-content" data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-duration="1000" data-aos-anchor-placement="top-bottom"> 315 <p>The COGEOENVIRONMENT working group on Medical Geology was given Special Project status to operate directly under IUGS.</p> 316<p>International meetings on Medical Geology were held in Chile, Russia, Netherlands, USA and Jap
316an, also covering neighbouring countries and regions.</p> 317<p>Medical Geology was marketed in different media and ideas of the book on Medical Geology were developed.</p> 318 </div> 319 </div> 320 </div> 321 322 <div class="row justify-content-md-center"> 323 <div class="col-auto"> 324 <div class="year-container"> 325 <div class="year-circle" data-aos="fade-up" data-aos-duration="1000" data-aos-anchor-placement="top-bottom"> 326 <div class="year-text"> 327 2003 </div> 328 </div> 329 </div> 330 </div> 331 <div class="col-md-6"> 332 <div class="year-content" data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-duration="1000" data-aos-anchor-placement="top-bottom"> 333 <p>Short courses in Medical Geology were held in Lithuania, Uruguay, Scotland, Brazil, Australia and Malaysia.</p> 334 </div> 335 </div> 336 </div> 337 338 <div class="row justify-content-md-center"> 339 <div class="col-auto"> 340 <div class="year-container"> 341 <div class="year-circle" data-aos="fade-up" data-aos-duration="1000" data-aos-anchor-placement="top-bottom"> 342 <div class="year-text"> 343 2004 </div> 344 </div> 345 </div> 346 </div> 347 <div class="col-md-6"> 348 <div class="year-content" data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-duration="1000" data-aos-anchor-placement="top-bottom"> 349 <p>In August 2004 in Florence (IGC) it was decided to establish IMGA with about 80 participants at this meeting.</p> 350<p>Short courses in Medical Geology were held in Hungary, Canada, South Africa, Australia and India.</p> 351<p>Medical Geology was part of the ICSU initiativeâ Science for Health and Wellbeingâ in Paris at the French Academy of Medicine.</p> 352 </div> 353 </div> 354 </div> 355 356 <div class="row justify-content-md-center"> 357 <div class="col-auto"> 358 <div class="year-container"> 359 <div class="year-circle" data-aos="fade-up" data-aos-duration="1000" data-aos-anchor-placement="top-bottom"> 360 <div class="year-text"> 361 2005 </div> 362 </div> 363 </div> 364 </div> 365 <div class="col-md-6"> 366 <div class="year-content" data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-duration="1000" data-aos-anchor-placement="top-bottom"> 367 <p>Voting of all members in the working group on medical geology. 250 persons voted in favour of the new association, IMGA. None against. The vote was unanimous.</p> 368<p>The 1st Hemispheric Conference on Medical Geology was organized in Puerto Rico.</p> 369<p>Short courses in Medical Geology were held in Romania, Argentina, Uruguay, Brazil, USA, Egypt, Turkey, Ireland, Sweden and Puerto Rico.</p> 370<p>The book ‘Essentials of Medical Geology’ was published by Elsevier.</p> 371 </div> 372 </div> 373 </div> 374 375 <div class="row justify-content-md-center"> 376 <div class="col-auto"> 377 <div class="year-container"> 378 <div class="year-circle" data-aos="fade-up" data-aos-duration="1000" data-aos-anchor-placement="top-bottom"> 379 <div class="year-text"> 380 2006 </div> 381 </div> 382 </div> 383 </div> 384 <div class="col-md-6"> 385 <div class="year-content" data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-duration="1000" data-aos-anchor-placement="top-bottom"> 386 <p>The International Medical Geology Association WAS formally established January 24, 2006.</p> 387<p>A special symposium on Medical Geology was held at the Royal Academy of Sciences in Stockholm.</p> 388<p>Short courses in Medical Geology were held in Portugal, Sweden, USA and Beijing.</p> 389<p><strong>Election of IMGA Executive Committee (2006-2009): </strong>Chair: Olle Selinus (Sweden); Co-chair for geoscience: Robert Finkelman (USA); Co-chair for medical science: Jose Centeno (USA); Secretary: Kimberley Chisholm (Australia); Treasurer: David Slaney (New Zealand); Councillors: Bernardino Ribeiro de Figueiredo (Brazil), Fiona Fordyce (UK), Baoshan Zheng (China), Calin Tatu (Romania), Nomathemba Ndiweni (Zimbabwe), Philip Weinstein (Australia); IMGA Support: Editor: Dave Elliott (Canada)</p> 390 </div> 391 </div> 392 </div> 393 394 <div class="row justify-content-md-center"> 395 <div class="col-auto"> 396 <div class="year-container"> 397 <div class="year-circle" data-aos="fade-up" data-aos-duration="1000" data-aos-anchor-placement="top-bottom"> 398 <div class="year-text"> 399 2007 </div> 400 </div> 401 </div> 402 </div> 403 <div class="col-md-6"> 404 <div class="year-content" data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-duration="1000" data-aos-anchor-placement="top-bottom"> 405 <p>The 2nd Hemispheric Conference on Medical Geology was held in Atibaya, Brazil.</p> 406<p>Short courses in Medical Geology were held in Uruguay, Mexico and Brazil.</p> 407 </div> 408 </div> 409 </div> 410 411 <div class="row justify-content-md-center"> 412 <div class="col-auto"> 413 <div class="year-container"> 414 <div class="year-circle" data-aos="fade-up" data-aos-duration="1000" data-aos-anchor-placement="top-bottom"> 415 <div class="year-text"> 416 2008 </div> 417 </div> 418 </div> 419 </div> 420 <div class="col-md-6"> 421 <div class="year-content" data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-duration="1000" data-aos-anchor-placement="top-bottom"> 422 <p>United Nations anounced Mediacl Geology as one of the themes of the International Year of Planet Earth.</p> 423<p>IMGA had several sessions and a short course at the 33 International Geological Conference in Oslo with 7000 participants.</p> 424<p>Short courses in Medical Geology were held in Cyprus, Ghana, Bolivia and Norway.</p> 425 </div> 426 </div> 427 </div> 428 429 <div class="row justify-content-md-center"> 430 <div class="col-auto"> 431 <div class="year-container"> 432 <div class="year-circle" data-aos="fade-up" data-aos-duration="1000" data-aos-anchor-placement="top-bottom"> 433 <div class="year-text"> 434 2009 </div> 435 </div> 436 </div> 437 </div> 438 <div class="col-md-6"> 439 <div class="year-content" data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-duration="1000" data-aos-anchor-placement="top-bottom"> 440 <p>
440IMGA was involved in ‘Mapping GeoUnions to the ICSU Framework for Sustainable Health and Wellbeing’ as full members, represented by Olle Selinus and Theo Davies.</p> 441<p>IMGA, represented by Olle Selinus, was invited to the US State Department in Washington D.C. as part of a government delegation, where a lunch seminar in Medical Geology was held for the US and Swedish delegations.</p> 442<p>The 3rd Hemispheric Conference on Medical Geology was held in Montevideo, Uruguay.</p> 443<p>Short courses in Medical Geology were held in Uruguay and Bolivia.</p> 444<p><strong>Election of IMGA Executive Committee (2009-2011): </strong>Chair: Jose Centeno (USA); Co-chair for geoscience: Olle Selinus (Sweden); Co-chair for medical science: Philip Weinstein (Australia); Secretary: Kimberley McAuley (New Zealand); Treasurer: David Slaney (New Zealand); Councillors: Bernardino Ribeiro de Figueiredo (Brazil), Fiona Fordyce (UK), Nelly Manay (Uruguay), Umran Dogan (Turkey), Maxwell Mwase (Zambia), Hisahi Nirei (Japan); IMGA Support: Editor: Dave Elliott (Canada); Web masters: Ana Maria Rojas (Colombia); Karin Ljung (Sweden)</p> 445 </div> 446 </div> 447 </div> 448 449 <div class="row justify-content-md-center"> 450 <div class="col-auto"> 451 <div class="year-container"> 452 <div class="year-circle" data-aos="fade-up" data-aos-duration="1000" data-aos-anchor-placement="top-bottom"> 453 <div class="year-text"> 454 2010 </div> 455 </div> 456 </div> 457 </div> 458 <div class="col-md-6"> 459 <div class="year-content" data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-duration="1000" data-aos-anchor-placement="top-bottom"> 460 <p>‘Medical geology â a regional synthesis’ was published by Springer.</p> 461<p>A Swedish textbook in Medical Geology was published by Studentlitteratur for university students.</p> 462<p>Discussions ongoing regarding te establishment of an International Center of Excellence in Medical Geology in Turkey.</p> 463<p>Short course in Medical Geology was held in Ireland.</p> 464 </div> 465 </div> 466 </div> 467 468 <div class="row justify-content-md-center"> 469 <div class="col-auto"> 470 <div class="year-container"> 471 <div class="year-circle" data-aos="fade-up" data-aos-duration="1000" data-aos-anchor-placement="top-bottom"> 472 <div class="year-text"> 473 2011 </div> 474 </div> 475 </div> 476 </div> 477 <div class="col-md-6"> 478 <div class="year-content" data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-duration="1000" data-aos-anchor-placement="top-bottom"> 479 <p>First International Symposium on Medical Geology held at the Autonomous University of Chihuahua, Chihuahua, Mexico on August 26th and 27th.</p> 480<p>GEOMED2011-Geological and Medical Sciences for a Safer Environment was held in Bari, Italy, September 20-25, 2011.</p> 481<p>Several medical geology-related activities, during the 45th Brazilian Geological Congress on behalf of IMGA was held in Belém, Brazil, from 26th September to 1st October.</p> 482<p><strong>Election of IMGA Executive Committee (2011-2013): </strong>Chair: Jose Centeno (USA); Co-chair for geoscience: Olle Selinus (Sweden); Co-chair for medical science: Nelly Manay (Uruguay); Secretary: Karin Ljung (Sweden); Treasurer: David Slaney (New Zealand); Councillors: Theo Davies (South Africa), Eduardo Santini-Araujo (Argentina), Hisahi Nirei (Japan), Chaosheng Zhang (Ireland), Mark Cave (UK), Aurora Armienta (Mexico); Senior advisors: Bob Finkelman (USA), Fiona Fordyce (UK); IMGA Support: Editor: David Elliott (Canada); Webmaster: Karin Ljung (Sweden), Ana MarÃa Rojas (Colombia)</p> 483 </div> 484 </div> 485 </div> 486 487 <div class="row justify-content-md-center"> 488 <div class="col-auto"> 489 <div class="year-container"> 490 <div class="year-circle" data-aos="fade-up" data-aos-duration="1000" data-aos-anchor-placement="top-bottom"> 491 <div class="year-text"> 492 2012 </div> 493 </div> 494 </div> 495 </div> 496 <div class="col-md-6"> 497 <div class="year-content" data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-duration="1000" data-aos-anchor-placement="top-bottom"> 498 <p>First International Symposium on Medical Geology held at the Autonomous University of Chihuahua, Chihuahua, Mexico on August 26th and 27th.</p> 499<p>GEOMED2011-Geological and Medical Sciences for a Safer Environment was held in Bari, Italy, September 20-25, 2011.</p> 500<p>Several medical geology-related activities, during the 45th Brazilian Geological Congress on behalf of IMGA was held in Belém, Brazil, from 26th September to 1st October.</p> 501 </div> 502 </div> 503 </div> 504 505 <div class="row justify-content-md-center"> 506 <div class="col-auto"> 507 <div class="year-container"> 508 <div class="year-circle" data-aos="fade-up" data-aos-duration="1000" data-aos-anchor-placement="top-bottom"> 509 <div class="year-text"> 510 2013 </div> 511 </div> 512 </div> 513 </div> 514 <div class="col-md-6"> 515 <div class="year-content" data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-duration="1000" data-aos-anchor-placement="top-bottom"> 516 <p>
516International Workshop and Regional Conference on Medical Geology Chihuahua, Mexico, March 21-23, 2013.</p> 517<p>First Conference on Medical Geology in Republic of Ukraine. Kiev, April 17-18, 2013.</p> 518<p>First Interdisciplinary and Scientific Meeting on Environmental Toxicology and Medical Geology, Universidad de la Republica, Montevideo, Uruguay, May 9, 2013.</p> 519<p>5th International Conference on Medical Geology (MEDGEO2013) August 24Â-29, 2013 in Arlington, VA, USA.</p> 520<p><strong>Election of IMGA Executive Committee (2013-2015): </strong>Chair: Nelly Manay (Uruguay); Co-chair in medical science: Diego Fridman (Argentina); Co-chair in geoscience: Maria Aurora Armienta (Mexico); Secretary: Laura Ruhl (USA); Treasurer: Birgitte Guldberg Hansen (Denmark); Councillors: Chaosheng Zhang (Ireland), Theo Davies (South Africa), Mark Cave (UK), Kim Esbensen (Denmark), Hassina Mouri (South Africa), Evans Emmanuel (Haiti); Chapter coordinator: Fiona Fordyce (UK); Ex chair: Jose Centeno (USA); Ex co-chair: Bob Finkelman (USA); Ex co-chair: Olle Selinus (USA); IMGA Support: Editor: David Elliott (Canada); Webmaster: Boyd Dent (Australia)</p> 521 </div> 522 </div> 523 </div> 524 525 <div class="row justify-content-md-center"> 526 <div class="col-auto"> 527 <div class="year-container"> 528 <div class="year-circle" data-aos="fade-up" data-aos-duration="1000" data-aos-anchor-placement="top-bottom"> 529 <div class="year-text"> 530 2014 </div> 531 </div> 532 </div> 533 </div> 534 <div class="col-md-6"> 535 <div class="year-content" data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-duration="1000" data-aos-anchor-placement="top-bottom"> 536 <p>Second International Symposium on Medical Geology in Rasht, Iran, February 2014.</p> 537<p>DUST 2014 â International Conference on Atmospheric Dust, Castellaneta Marina (Taranto, Italy), 1-6 June 2014.</p> 538<p>1st International Symposium in Medical Geology in Africa (ISMGAf), University of Johannesburg, South Africa 24-26th of March 2014.</p> 539 </div> 540 </div> 541 </div> 542 543 <div class="row justify-content-md-center"> 544 <div class="col-auto"> 545 <div class="year-container"> 546 <div class="year-circle" data-aos="fade-up" data-aos-duration="1000" data-aos-anchor-placement="top-bottom"> 547 <div class="year-text"> 548 2015 </div> 549 </div> 550 </div> 551 </div> 552 <div class="col-md-6"> 553 <div class="year-content" data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-duration="1000" data-aos-anchor-placement="top-bottom"> 554 <p>6th International Conference on Medical Geology â MedGeoâ15 was held at the University of Aveiro, Portugal, from the 24th July to the 1st of August, 2015.</p> 555<p>During this meeting, in IMGA General Assembleia was decide move the headquarters to Portugal.</p> 556<p><strong>Election of IMGA Executive Committee (2015-2017): </strong>Chair: Nelly Mañay (Uruguay); Vice-Chair for Geosciences: Maria Aurora Armienta (Mexico); Vice-chair for Medical Sciences: Diego Fridman (Argentina); Secretary: Carla Patinha (Portugal); Treasurer: Birgitte Hansen (Denmark); Councillors: Iossif Volfson (Russia), Ester Sztein (USA), Héctor Rubio (Mexico), Darren Beriro (UK), Laura Börgel (Chile), Cassio Roberto da Silva (Brazil); IMGA Support: Webmaster: R. Scott Cherba (USA);
556 Editor-In-Chief: Mark Cave (UK)</p> 557 </div> 558 </div> 559 </div> 560 561 <div class="row justify-content-md-center"> 562 <div class="col-auto"> 563 <div class="year-container"> 564 <div class="year-circle" data-aos="fade-up" data-aos-duration="1000" data-aos-anchor-placement="top-bottom"> 565 <div class="year-text"> 566 2016 </div> 567 </div> 568 </div> 569 </div> 570 <div class="col-md-6"> 571 <div class="year-content" data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-duration="1000" data-aos-anchor-placement="top-bottom"> 572 <p>ISEH 2016, ISEG 2016 & Geoinformatics 2016: Joint International Conference on Environment, Health, GIS and Agriculture, Galway, Ireland, August 14 – 20, 2016.</p> 573<p>35th International Geological Congress 27 august – 4 September 2016, Cape Town, South Africa.</p> 574<p>On 2nd July (2016) the IMGA association was registered in Portugal.</p> 575<p>The legal headquarters of the Association are at Campus Universitário de Santiago da Universidade de Aveiro, 3810-193 Aveiro, Portugal.</p> 576<p>The Association has the VAT number: 514.055.987.</p> 577 </div> 578 </div> 579 </div> 580 581 <div class="row justify-content-md-center"> 582 <div class="col-auto"> 583 <div class="year-container"> 584 <div class="year-circle" data-aos="fade-up" data-aos-duration="1000" data-aos-anchor-placement="top-bottom"> 585 <div class="year-text"> 586 2017 </div> 587 </div> 588 </div> 589 </div> 590 <div class="col-md-6"> 591 <div class="year-content" data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-duration="1000" data-aos-anchor-placement="top-bottom"> 592 <p>7th International Conference on Medical Geology â MedGeoâ17 was held in Moscow, Russian, from August 28 to September 1, 2017.</p> 593<p>The workshop âFUNDAMENTALS OF MEDICAL GEOLOGYâ was held during the conference MedGeoâ17, on 28 August 2017. Moderators of this workshop were: Jose Centeno, Robert Finkelman, Chaosheng Zhang and Saverio Fiore.</p> 594<p>On October 16-20, 2017 the second International Symposium on Medical Geology in Spain under the auspices of the Spain Geological Survey and Institute of Mines, the University of Salamanca â Faculties of Science and Medicine, the Salamanca Clinical Hospital and the University of Granada â School of Pharmacy.</p> 595<p>The revision of the IMGA Bylaws was finished and it approved by the effective members (Link with the document).</p> 596<p><strong>Election of IMGA Governing Bodies (2017-2019): </strong>Chair: Nelly Mañay (Uruguay); Co-Chair for Geological Sciences: Maria Aurora Armienta (Mexico); Co-Chair for Medical Sciences: Diego Fridman (Argentina); Secretary: Carla Patinha (Portugal); Treasurer: Scott Cherba (USA); Councillors: Iossif Volfson (Russia), Ester Sztein (USA), Héctor Rubio (México), Darren Beriro (UK), Laura Börgel (Chile), Cassio Roberto da Silva (Brazil); General Assembly Board: Chair: Jose Centeno (USA); Co-Chair: Bob Finkelman (USA); Secretary: Olle Selinus (Sweden); Supervisor Board: Chair: Eduardo Ferreira da Silva (Portugal); Other members: Nuno Durães (Portugal), Elena Gimenez-Forcada (Spain); IMGA Support: Webmaster: Scott Cherba (USA);
596 Editor-In-Chief: Mark Cave (UK)</p> 597 </div> 598 </div> 599 </div> 600 601 <div class="row justify-content-md-center"> 602 <div class="col-auto"> 603 <div class="year-container"> 604 <div class="year-circle" data-aos="fade-up" data-aos-duration="1000" data-aos-anchor-placement="top-bottom"> 605 <div class="year-text"> 606 2018 </div> 607 </div> 608 </div> 609 </div> 610 <div class="col-md-6"> 611 <div class="year-content" data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-duration="1000" data-aos-anchor-placement="top-bottom"> 612 <p><strong>Election of IMGA Committee executive (2018-2020)</strong>:</p> 613<p><strong>General Assembly Board:</strong> Chair – MarÃa Aurora Armienta; Co-Chair- José Centeno; Member 1 – Alejandro Villalobos; Member2 – Theophilus Davies</p> 614<p><strong>Executive Committee:</strong> Chair – Diego Fridman; Co- Chair for Geological Sciences – Elena Gimenez Forcada; Co- Chair for Medical Sciences – Chaosheng Zhang; Secretary- Carla Patinha; Treasurer – Nuno Durães; Councillors – Eduardo Ferreira da Silva, Iosif Volfson, Xinbin Feng, Akinade Shadrach Olatunji, Rita Salgueiro, Ines TomaÅ¡ek</p> 615<p><strong>Audit Committee</strong>: Chair- Nelly Mañay; Secretary- Ester Sztein</p> 616 </div> 617 </div> 618 </div> 619 620 <div class="row justify-content-md-center"> 621 <div class="col-auto"> 622 <div class="year-container"> 623 <div class="year-circle" data-aos="fade-up" data-aos-duration="1000" data-aos-anchor-placement="top-bottom"> 624 <div class="year-text"> 625 2019 </div> 626 </div> 627 </div> 628 </div> 629 <div class="col-md-6"> 630 <div class="year-content" data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-duration="1000" data-aos-anchor-placement="top-bottom"> 631 <p><strong>Election of IMGA Governing Bodies (2019-2021): </strong>Chair: Diego Hernán Fridman (Argentina); Co-Chair for Geological Sciences: Elena Gimenez Forcada (Spain); Co-Chair for Medical Sciences: Chaosheng Zhang (Ireland) (Concurrent role as Chapter Coordinator); Secretary: Carla Patinha (Portugal); Treasurer: Nuno Durães (Portugal); Councillor: Eduardo Ferreira da Silva (Portugal), Iosif Volfson (Russia), Xinbin Feng (China), Akinade Shadrach Olatunji (Nigeria), Rita Salgueiro (Brazil), Ines TomaÅ¡ek (Belgium); General Assembly: Chair: MarÃa Aurora (México); Co-Chair: José Centeno (USA); Secretary: Ester Sztein (USA); Audit Committee: Chair: Nelly Mañay (Uruguay); Members: Alejandro Villalobos (México, Theophilus C. Davies (South Africa);
631 IMGA Support: Editor-in-Chief: Mark Cave (UK); Webmaster: João Quintas (Portugal)</p> 632 </div> 633 </div> 634 </div> 635 636 <div class="row justify-content-md-center"> 637 <div class="col-auto"> 638 <div class="year-container"> 639 <div class="year-circle" data-aos="fade-up" data-aos-duration="1000" data-aos-anchor-placement="top-bottom"> 640 <div class="year-text"> 641 2021 </div> 642 </div> 643 </div> 644 </div> 645 <div class="col-md-6"> 646 <div class="year-content" data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-duration="1000" data-aos-anchor-placement="top-bottom"> 647 <p><strong>Election of IMGA Governing Bodies (2021-2023): </strong>Executive Committee: Chair: Diego Fridman (Argentina); Co- Chair for Geological Sciences: Carla Patinha (Portugal); Co-Chair for Medical Sciences: Chaosheng Zhang (Ireland) (Concurrent role as Chapter Coordinator); Secretary: Elena Alvareda (Uruguay); Treasurer: Nuno Durães (Portugal); Councillors: Eduardo Ferreira Da Silva (Portugal), Iosif Volfson (Russia), Xinbin Feng (China), Akinade Shadrach Olatunji (Nigeria), Rita Salgueiro (Brazil), Ines TomaÅ¡ek (France); General Assembly Board: Chair: MarÃa Aurora Armienta (Mexico); Co-Chair: José Centeno (USA); Secretary: Ester Sztein (USA); Audit Committee: Chair: Nelly Mañay (Uruguay); Member 1 Alejandro Villalobos, Member2 Theophilus Davies (South Africa); IMGA Support: Editors: Maria Aurora Armienta (Spain), Iskhak Farkhutdinov (Russia)</p> 648 </div> 649 </div> 650 </div> 651 652 <div class="row justify-content-md-center"> 653 <div class="col-auto"> 654 <div class="year-container"> 655 <div class="year-circle" data-aos="fade-up" data-aos-duration="1000" data-aos-anchor-placement="top-bottom"> 656 <div class="year-text"> 657 2023 </div> 658 </div> 659 </div> 660 </div> 661 <div class="col-md-6"> 662 <div class="year-content" data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-duration="1000" data-aos-anchor-placement="top-bottom"> 663 <p><strong>Election of IMGA Governing Bodies (2023-2025): </strong>Executive Committee: Chair: Chaosheng Zhang (Ireland); Co-Chair in Geosciences: Carla Patinha (Portugal); Co-Chair in Medical Sciences: Temitope Laniyan (Nigeria); Secretary: Elena Alvareda (Uruguay); Treasurer: Nuno Durães (Portugal); Councillors: Emmanuel Arhin (Ghana), Maria Aurora Armienta (Mexico), Kim Dowling (Australia), Prosun Bhattacharya (Sweden), Nghargbu K’tso (Nigeria), Bo Peng (China); General Assembly Board: Chair: José Centeno (USA); Co-Chair: Diego Hernán Fridman (Argentina); Secretary: Valery Bühl (Uruguay); Supervisory Board: Chair: Xinbin Feng (China); Members: Nelly Mañay (Uruguay), Eduardo Ferreira da Silva (Portugal); IMGA Support: Editor-in-Chief: Elena Giménez-Forcada (Spain), MarÃa Izquierdo (Spain); Chapter coordinator: Lei Huang (China)</p> 664 </div> 665 </div> 666 </div> 667 668 <div class="row justify-content-md-center"> 669 <div class="col-auto"> 670 <div class="year-container"> 671 <div class="year-circle" data-aos="fade-up" data-aos-duration="1000" data-aos-anchor-placement="top-bottom"> 672 <div class="year-text"> 673 2025 </div> 674 </div> 675 </div> 676 </div> 677 <div class="col-md-6"> 678 <div class="year-content" data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-duration="1000" data-aos-anchor-placement="top-bottom"> 679 <p><strong>Election of IMGA Governing Bodies (2025-2027): </strong>Executive Committee: Chair: Chaosheng Zhang (Ireland); Co-Chair in Geosciences: Maria Aurora Armienta (Mexico); Co-Chair in Medical Sciences: Lei Huang (China); Secretary: Lola Pereira (Spain); Treasurer: Nuno Durães (Portugal); Councillors: Emmanuel Arhin (Ghana), Elena Alvareda (Uruguay), Kim Dowling (Australia), Carla Patinha (Portugal), Nghargbu K’tso (Nigeria), Dawen Liu (China); General Assembly Board: Chair: José Centeno (USA); Co-Chair: Eduardo Ferreira da Silva (Portugal); Secretary: Bo Peng (China); Supervisory Board: Chair: Xinbin Feng (China); Members: Nelly Mañay (Uruguay), Theo Davies (South Africa); IMGA Support: Editor in Chief: Maria Izquierdo (Spain); Webmaster: Yunfan Li (China)</p> 680 </div> 681 </div> 682 </div> 683 </div> 684 685 686 687 688 689 690</div> <!--/container--> 691 692 693</main> 694 695 696<footer id="site-footer"> 697 698 <div class="container"> 699 <div class="row"> 700 <div class="col-md-6"> 701 <div class="footer-email"> 702 <a href="mailto:secretary@medicalgeology.org"><i class="fa-regular fa-envelope"></i> secretary@medicalgeology.org</a> 703 </div> 704 </div> 705 <div class="col-md-6"> 706 <div class="footer-social"> 707 <a href="https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100064863573325#" target="_blank"><i class="fa-brands fa-facebook-f"></i></a> 708 </div> 709 </div> 710 </div> 711 <div class="row"> 712 <div class="col"> 713 <div class="footer-divider">
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