Eugene Pozniak is founder and Programme Director of European CME Forum, a longstanding not-for-profit organisation that brings together key stakeholders in European and global Continuing Medical Education and Continuing Professional Development (CME-CPD). Eugene is also the Managing Director of Siyemi Learning, an independent medical education provider established in 2006. Siyemi Learning has had activities accredited by over 25 different accreditation bodies across Europe and the globe. In 2015, Siyemi Learning became the first organisation outside of the US to be accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), it is also accredited by the European Board for Accreditation of Continuing Education for Health Professionals (EBAC).
Eugene spent his early career working in the pharmaceutical industry, advertising and medical communications agencies, specialising in digital services when it was in its infancy. He left the promotional sector in 2000 and has since worked exclusively in CME-CPD, initially devising and delivering e-learning for the European Society of Cardiology ("ESCed" being the first CME-accredited e-learning platform in Europe, and a top-16 award-winning project of the Leonardo da Vinci fund of the European Commission) and the Federation of European Cancer Societies (FECS – now the European CanCer Organisations, ECCO). He was Director of Global CME (ex-US) at Wolters Kluwer Health, before setting up Siyemi Learning and European CME Forum. Eugene also manages and serves on the Editorial Board of the open access, PubMed-indexed, Journal of CME and is a founding member of the Good CME Practice group.
