SCOHRE has now a new Board!

54% of all SCOHRE members voted for the 12 candidates for the new SCOHRE Board. The elections took place on May 14th and 15th, 2025.

SCOHRE is in its 5th year and has 84 members from 41 countries from all continents! A truly international organization from its 1st establishment from 21 international experts as founding members from 17 countries.

The new board consists of the following members:

President

Ignatios Ikonomidis, MD, PhD, FESC, Professor of Cardiology, Member of EACVI, ex. Nucleus member of ESC WG on Aorta & Peripheral Vascular Diseases, Director of Echocardiography and the Laboratory of Preventive Cardiology, 2nd Cardiology Department, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Attikon Hospital, Athens, Greece

Vice President

Konstantinos Farsalinos, MD, MPH, Senior Researcher, University of Patras, Greece – School of Public Health, University of West Attica, Greece – Data & Media Lab, University of Peloponnese, Greece

Secretary

David Sweanor, Chair of the Advisory Board, Centre for Health Law, Policy & Ethics, University of Ottawa || Adjunct Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa || Global Leadership Council, Boston University School of Public Health || Legal Counsel, Non-Smokers’ Rights Association, 1983-2005

Treasurer

Andrzej Fal, Prof. dr hab., President, Polish Society of Public Health; Head, Department of Allergy, Lung Diseases & Internal Medicine, Central Clinical Hospital, Ministry of Interior; Director, Institute of Medical Science, UKSW, Poland

Members

Anastasia Barbouni, Professor of Public Health, Hygiene and Disease Prevention, Department of Public and Community Health, School of Public Health, University of West Attica, Athens, Greece

Giuseppe Biondi-Zoccai, M.D. M. Stat., Associate Professor in Cardiology, Department of Medico-Surgical Sciences and Biotechnologies, Sapienza University of Rome, Latina, Italy

Fares Mili, MD-CTTS, Pulmonologist, Addictologist, Chairman of the Tunisian Society of Tobacology and Addictive Behaviors (STTACA), Tunisia

The new board will take over from the previous board following the 8th Summit on Tobacco Harm Reduction: Novel Products,  Research & Policy.