EUROPEAN CYSTIC FIBROSIS SOCIETY (ECFS)

HISTORY OF EWGGF/ECFS

In 1969, the European Working Group for Cystic Fibrosis (EWGCF) was founded to provide an annual forum where people from the various disciplines but with a common interest in CF could meet, present and discuss their latest findings. Since 1970, There has been an annual meeting (except every four years when there is a meeting of the International Cystic Fibrosis Congress) in a different European country and organised in conjunction with the local CF association.

In 1991, the name of the annual conference was changed to the European Cystic Fibrosis Conference to reflect the fact that a number of other CF Societies and groups in addition to the EWGCF also hold their meetings at the same venue.

In 1997, following suggestions over a number of years by the membership, the board decided to propose an official transformation of the EWGCF to a Society to be known as the European Society for Cystic Fibrosis (ESCF). This change together with a new constitution for the Society was approved at the Annual General Meeting held during the 21st European CF conference in Davos, June 1997.

Subsequently it was realised that the name abbreviation was similar to that of a study group associated with the American CF Foundation (Study of Epidemiology of Cystic Fibrosis). Consequently the name of the society was changed again at the Annual General Meeting held at the 22nd European CF Conference in Berlin, June 1998 to the European Cystic Fibrosis Society (ECFS)

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