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The International Functional Electrical Stimulation Society (IFESS) is a non-profit organization with the mission to promote the research, application, and understanding of electrical stimulation (Functional Electrical Stimulation) as it is utilized in the field of medicine through meetings, tutorials, publications, and the exchange of information. IFESS members are mainly medical doctors, clinicians, engineers, and therapist. All together

Annual Conference
The 14th Annual Conference IFESS will be held 2009 in Seoul, Korea.

Timeline

 * 1993: The idea to found IFESS was born after "The Ljubljana FES conference" in Porto Roz, Slovenia.
 * 1995: IFESS was founded during the "5th Vienna International Workshop on Functional Electrical Stimulation", Vienna, Austria.
 * 1996: The 1st IFESS Conference was held in Cleveland, Ohio, USA
 * 1997: The 2n IFESS Conference was held in Vancouver, Canada
 * 1998: The 3rd IFESS Conference was held in Lucerne, Switzerland
 * 1999: The 4th IFESS Conference was held in Sendai, Japan
 * 2000: The 5th IFESS Conference was held in Aalborg, Denmark
 * 2001: The 6th IFESS Conference was held in Cleveland, Ohio, USA
 * 2002: The 7th IFESS Conference was held in Ljubljana, Slovenia
 * 2003: The 8th IFESS Conference was held in Sydney, Australia
 * 2004: The 9th IFESS Conference was held in Bournemouth, Great Britain
 * 2005: The 10th IFESS Conference was held in Montreal, Canada
 * 2006: The 11th IFESS Conference was held in Miyagi-Zao, Japan
 * 2007: The 12th IFESS Conference was held in Philadelphia, USA
 * 2008: The 13th IFESS Conference was held in Freiburg, Germany
 * 2008: First National Chapter (UKIR) was launched at the INS meeting in Cardiff, UK