INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR CLINICAL BIOETHICS

THE FOUNDATION RESOLUTION

The foundation meeting of  The International Society of Clinical Bioethics was held on the  17th of June 2003 in the city of Veli Lošinj, Croatia. It was decided that:

• The International Society for Clinical Bioethics shall be founded.

• A procedure for registration in the Register of Associations of the Republic of Croatia must be originated.

• The first draft of the Constitution, that was presented and proposed to the participants of the foundation meeting, was adopted after the discussion, and whose text with all accepted amendments and modifications is the integral part of this resolution.

• All the participants at the foundation meeting shall obtain the status of  Founding Members.

• During the first term (4 years), the headquarters of the Society shall be in Croatia, in the city of Opatija.

• During the first term the President shall be Ivan Šegota from Croatia.

• During the first term the 4 Vice-Presidents shall be:
  1. Michael Cheng-Tek Tai  from Taiwan
  2. Tsuyoshi Awaia from Japan
  3. Boris Yudin from Russia (in absence)
  4. George Agich from USA (in absence)

• All above mentioned persons shall form the Board of Directors, together with 4 other persons who shall be:
  1. Christian Byk from France
  2. Miguel Bedolla from USA
  3. Ivan Kaltchev from Bulgaria
  4. Jovan Marić from Serbia and Montenegro

• During the initial period  of the first term the duties of Secretary and Treasurer shall be performed by a single person, Iva Sorta-Bilajac from Croatia.
  
  

1st ISCB ANNUAL MEETING

Time: 16th of June 2004 　 Location: Rijeka, Croatia

Topics:

1. Next ISCB Symposium – Taiwan, May , 2005
2. Annual fee – not decided yet
3. Creating a web-page

Present:
Ivan Segota, Iva Sorta-Bilajac, Morana Brkljacic, Domagoj Brkanac, Boris Brozovic, Rok Lampe, Michael Cheng-tek Tai, Ivan Kaltchev, Tsuyoshi Awaya, Kenji Hattori

2nd ISCB ANNUAL MEETING (ELECTIVE MEETING)

Time:11th of May 2005 　Location:Taichung, Taiwan

Topics:

1. New members:
．CHE NGAH Anisah – Malaysia
．CHEN Yu-Cheng – Japan
．BAGHERI Alireza – Japan
． Luka Tomasevic – Croatia
． CROMWELL Crawford – Hawaii
． TANIDA Noritoshi – Japan

2. Ammendment of ISCB constitution, article 6.1.: instead of 9, the Board
shall consist of 11 members

3. Elections: he President remains Ivan Segota from Croatia;
the 4 Vice-Presidents are:  
(1) Michael Cheng-Tek Tai from Taiwan
(2) George J. Agich from USA  
(3) Tsuyoshi Awaia from  Japan       
(4) Christian Byk from France  
the Secretary remains Iva Sorta-Bilajac from Croatia

4. Annual fee – not decided

5. Next ISCB Symposium - Japan

Present: 18 members of ISCB

3rd ISCB ANNUAL MEETING

Time: 23rd of March 2006　Location: Hiroshima City, Japan

Topics:

1. The next ISCB symposium shall be held in Varna, Bulgaria
2. Ivan Kaltchev shall be elected Vice-President „per tem“
3. According to the articles 2 and 3 of the Constitution, a proposal is made to found national societies. The first shall be the Croation Society for Clinical Bioethics.

4th ISCB ANNUAL MEETING (ELECTIVE MEETING)

Time: 14th of September 2007
Location: Aix en Provence, France

Note: due to the impossibility to hold the ISCB Symposium in Bulgaria, the decision was made to transfer the 4th ISCB Symposium to Aix en Provence, France, as a joint conference with the 3rd FRENCH- JAPANESE BIOETHICS SEMINAR.

Topics:

1. Welcome address by the President, Ivan Segota

2. Ammendment of the constitution:
According to the Article 11 of the ISCB Constitution: Amendment of the Constitution and Dissolution of the Society, the petition was proposed to amend the article 7.2. „The term of the Officers of the Society shall be two years.“ The article should be changed into „The term of the Officers of the Society shall be four years.“

3. Elections:
3.1. Members of the Board
．Luka Tomasevic - Croatia
．Boris Yudin - Russia
．Salvador Ribas - Spain
．Hans-Martin Sass - Germany 
． Song Sang-Yong - Korea     

3.2. Officers
．President: Michael Cheng-Tek Tai -Taiwan                          
．Vice-Presidents: George Agich - USA 
．Vice-Presidents: Tsuyoshi Awaia - Japan                
．Vice-Presidents: Christian Byk  - France
．Vice-Presidents: Leo Pessini - Brasil
．Secretary General: Iva Sorta-Bilajac - Croatia                              

4. Proposal to elect Ivan Segota as Honorary Life President

5th ISCB ANNUAL MEETING

Time: 5th of September 2008
Location: Rijeka, Croatia

Note: The 5th Symposium of ISCB is held as a satelite meeting to the 9th World Congress of Bioethics.

Topics:

1. Welcome address by the President, Michael Cheng-Tek Tai
2. annual fee – not decided yet
3. web-site of the Society
4. next meeting – Taiwan, March 2009 as a joint meeting with the 5th International Conference on Clinical Ethics and Consultation

6th ISCB ANNUAL MEETING

Time: 9th of March 2009
Location: Taichung, Taiwan

Topics:

1. The ISCB is happy to report to you that papers presented at the 6ISCB / 5ICCEC will be published in Vol 10 of Formosan Journal of Medical Humanities that will be ready to mail out next week. We need at least three issues to finish publishing all the papers we received. Therefore around 8 papers will be in this coming issue, the next ten papers will be in next issue in early next year or late this year and then the rest in the fowllowing issue.

2. Our next year's conference is planned to be held in Bulgaria but in case Prof. Ivan Kaltchev needs to have a change, Prof. John Tuohey of Portland, Oregan, USA has extended invitation to help. John has written to Ivan suggesting the two conferences ( 6 ICCEC and 7 ISCB) to join together. if need be just like what we did in Taiwan this March. Ivan will make his decsion soon.

3. 6 ICCEC will be held next May in Portland and we like to encourage the
participation of our members. ICCEC was initiated by George, our own member and we always enjoy the learning opportunity and fellowship in
ICCEC. Please send your abstrcat to John now.

4. We congratulate to our honorary president Dr.Ivan Segota's retirement
from U of Rijeka. A book in celebration of his retirement at 70 was published last month with many papers from our Society members and big names of the world.

5. We thank Prof. Iva Sorta for her great contribution as a general secretary since the inauguration of the ISCB. She will serve as a board director of ISCB now and the post of genereal secretary will be filled by Dr. Gordana Pelcic to be in effect from this month. Dr. Morona Brkljacic will serve as the vice G.S.

5 We welcome some new members to the Society. .
．Dr. Paul Norbet- Germany
．B. Dr. Vina Vaswani- India　
．Dr. Ravi Vaswani - India
I need to collect the names and information of few others who expressed their intention.

6. The website of ISCB will be ready soon. My assistant Phyllis is
working on it.