RDI’s Membership Meeting, Barcelona, 4 June 2017, RDI council Elections & Rare Diseases Foundation of Iran Nomination; Rare Diseases International 3rd annual meeting held by the presence of Rare Diseases organizations from all over the world.
Dr.Ali Davoudian and Dr. G. Ali Afrooz attended the meeting as Rare Diseases Foundation of Iran representatives. Besides, Dr. Ali Davoudian was introduced as one of the active members in this field.
At the beginning of the meeting, members presented their annual report for 2016, then RDI’s president while appreciating the effort made by all organizations, invited everyone to model Dr. Davoudian’s management method.
In fact, RDI is the most important organ in the field of Rare Diseases and Rare Diseases Foundation of Iran could join it after endeavoring and achieved full membership with the right to vote for Member of the Board in 2016.
At the next section, an environmental scan of Rare Diseases around the world, organizations gave a speech and participate in the panel to show regional developments with country specific examples and regional themes.
To this purpose, Dr. G. Ali Afrooz, Distinguished Professor of Psychology, University of Tehran was the panelist on behalf of Rare Diseases Foundation of Iran.
An election had organised online to replace three Members of the Board, and Rare Diseases Foundation of Iran nominated as a candidate. At the end of the meeting, the election results were announced and new members introduced.