Adam Meijer
09-11 2023 23:54
wrote:
Uppsala, Sweden, 2003, my first EISS meeting with John. Beginning 2023 it has been the 20th anniversary working with John. I remember John as a great and friendly colleague, always full of ideas on new projects on many aspects of respiratory diseases. John made the collaboration of epidemiologists, virologists and GPs a success in building the EISS network. Thanks to his continued enthusiasm and engagement, influenza and RSV surveillance in Europe is at a high level. He had the ability to involve all participants and have them using their expertise to make EISS a success. Thanks to him the EISS community became a community of friends with an annual celebration of successes at the EISS meetings. After EISS, John came up with many new projects on which we worked together, with a last project on his initiative about B/Yamagata extinction and a paper right now under peer review. I will miss him terribly, and others with me. My thoughts are with his family.
Adam Meijer
09-11 2023 23:54
wrote:
Uppsala, Sweden, 2003, my first EISS meeting with John. Beginning 2023 it has been the 20th anniversary working with John. I remember John as a great and friendly colleague, always full of ideas on new projects on many aspects of respiratory diseases. John made the collaboration of epidemiologists, virologists and GPs a success in building the EISS network. Thanks to his continued enthusiasm and engagement, influenza and RSV surveillance in Europe is at a high level. He had the ability to involve all participants and have them using their expertise to make EISS a success. Thanks to him the EISS community became a community of friends with an annual celebration of successes at the EISS meetings. After EISS, John came up with many new projects on which we worked together, with a last project on his initiative about B/Yamagata extinction and a paper right now under peer review. I will miss him terribly, and others with me. My thoughts are with his family.
