Back to the classroom at the Angels booth
It was a pleasure to welcome so many current and future members of the Angels community to our booth at ESOC, which this year featured a FAST Heroes classroom, an introduction to the Angels Academy, and a Community Wall with success stories from across Europe.
In the FAST Heroes classroom, visitors could revisit their school years with daily “lessons” about this unique school-based stroke awareness project programme whose achievements to date include a Guinness World Record!
Elsewhere visitors could explore the elearnings offered in the Angels Academy and tools to support their work in stroke care and read about breakthroughs at hospitals in their own and other countries on our Community Wall. This year’s award-winners’ photo wall featured an unprecedented number of hospitals that had earned ESO Angels Awards, and a photo opportunity for proud winners.
Anything you missed out on seeing or just want to experience it all again? Watch the ESOC highlights video here.
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ESO Angels Diamond Awards
During the Presidential session, over 100 ESO Angels Diamond Award Winners were welcomed on stage for an unforgettable parade of excellence in stroke care. The rousing applause that greeted the winners from Ukraine produced one of the most moving moments of the conference.
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Spirit of Excellence Awards
The Spirit of Excellence Awards honour members of the Angels community whose commitment to stroke care improvement takes them beyond their own hospitals to raising standards in their regions and countries. This year’s winners were announced at a gala dinner at the Wappenhalle München where we welcomed a very special guest who was up past her bedtime – Ninka Ivančíková, whose story about saving her grandmother demonstrated FAST Heroes in action and earned her a standing ovation.
The 2023 winners of the ESO Spirit of Excellence Award are:
- Andrea Zini, Neurologist, Ospedale Maggiore Carlo Alberto Pizzardi Bologna
- Mgr. Vladimira Tatarková, Physiotherapist, Liptovska nemocnica s poliklinikou Liptovský Mikuláš
- Assoc. Prof. Aleš Tomek, Neurologist, Faculty Hospital Motol
- Prof. Adam Kobayashi, Neuroradiologist, Institute of Psychiatry and Neurology Warsaw
- Group Nomination Romania, Neurologists, Spitalul Universitar De Urgență București:
- Dr. Elena Oana Terecoasă
- Dr. Vlad Tiu
- Dr. Răzvan Radu
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Angels Symposium – Population Awareness: The Final Frontier
This year’s symposium, which was chaired by ESO president-elect Prof Simona Sacco, brought together excellent speakers who shared their experience of implementation of the FAST Heroes project across the world, and insights about how all healthcare professionals can get involved.
- Hong Chuan Loh, Malaysia – Speaking to stroke patients: understanding what our patients do before they arrive at the hospital.
- Sheila Martins, Brazil – FAST Heroes: on a grand mission to save our grandparents
- Jan van der Merwe, Germany – 250,000 families say it works!
- Sandra Martins & Catarina Frias, Portugal – How your hospital can get involved
- Dr. Aliina Altymysheva, WHO Kyrgyzstan – World Health Organisation: implementing FAST Heroes in Kyrgyzstan
Thank you for visiting. We hope to see you at next year’s ESOC in Basel, Switzerland!
