European Medical Association (EMA). Medical Association for Doctors and Medical Industry Personnel.

What European Medical Association (EMA). Medical Association for Doctors and Medical Industry Personnel. does

The European Medical Association (EMA) is a Belgian-registered non-profit professional medical association established in 1990 under Belgian law dated 25/10/1919 as an "International Foundation Pursuing a Scientific Aim." It serves individual doctors and medical institutions across all 27 EU member states, with associate members also present in Asia, Africa, and to a lesser extent the Americas and Oceania. EMA operates a tiered membership model (Full Members at 150 EUR/year, Institutional Members at 1,000 EUR/year, and Corporate Members at 5,000 EUR/year) that grants access to the EMA International Health Care Directory, the EPMA/EMA Journal (four issues per year), conference discounts, publication opportunities, working group participation, and voting rights in association governance. Its product surface also includes QS Edizioni digital publishing, the EMANET Media YouTube channel, the Rose of Paracelsus award, and partner journals such as MDPI Healthcare. The organisation is led by founder-President Dr. Vincenzo Costigliola and governed by a 12-member board, with a small operational team of 13 employees based at its Brussels headquarters. EMA's business model is community-led and event-driven: it monetises through recurring annual membership subscriptions, generates reach through conferences and EU policy position statements (e.g., contributions to HERA, pharmaceutical legislation revision, vaccine strategy), and coordinates expert working groups on environmental health, prehabilitation, and gastroesophageal reflux disease. Strategic partnerships with EPMA (predictive/preventive/personalised medicine), the Bial Foundation (BIAL Award), UCL Institute for Global Health, Federsanita' ANCI, ENCHE, and INPHET anchor its influence in European health policy and biomedical research.

Name

European Medical Association (EMA). Medical Association for Doctors and Medical Industry Personnel.

Legal name

Association médicale européenne @EMA@

Website

https://emanet.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

1990

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

The European Medical Association (EMA) is a Belgian non-profit founded in 1990 that serves individual doctors and medical institutions across the EU and select non-EU countries through a tiered membership model, providing directory access, journals, conferences, working groups, and EU health policy advocacy.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Professional Medical Association Services

NAICS

Professional Organizations (813920), Professional Organizations (81392), Business Associations (813910)

SIC

Services-Membership Organizations (8600)

akta.pro primary industry

Health, Pharmaceuticals & Medical Devices Regulatory Cooperation (BPADANAJ)

Keywords

• Medical association membership
• Healthcare professional networking
• EU health policy advocacy
• Medical industry representation
• Professional medical society

Headquarters

HQ city

Brussels

HQ country

Belgium

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Membership Fees: EMA generates revenue through tiered membership fees: Full Members pay 150 EUR annually, Institutional Members pay 1000 EUR, and Corporate Members pay 5000 EUR. Membership benefits include access to the International Health Care Directory, publication announcements, discounts on books and conferences, electronic information, and voting rights.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

The European Medical Association (EMA) is a non-profit international foundation that provides professional membership services to doctors and medical industry personnel across Europe. The association offers Full, Institutional, and Corporate membership tiers, enabling members to engage in professional networking, representation, and collaboration within the European medical community, with operations coordinated from its Brussels headquarters.

Product overview

The European Medical Association (EMA) operates as a professional medical association offering a tiered membership structure (Full, Institutional, and Corporate) that provides access to its core services including the EMA International Health Care Directory, EPMA/EMA Journal (4 issues/year), professional publications through QS Edizioni, video content library, and participation in European projects. Members can publish presentations, access discounts, and apply for awards including the Rose of Paracelsus. EMA also coordinates expert working groups on strategic medical topics and publishes position papers at the European Commission level.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• EMA International Health Care Directory: Directory of healthcare professionals accessible to members
• EPMA Journal

Products and services

• EMA Professional Membership

Named customers7 records

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

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Has API

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Partnerships

18 partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• Bial FoundationcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerBial Foundation is a Scientific Partner of EMA. Two EMA Board representatives serve as members of the nomination Jury of the BIAL Award in Biomedicine 2025. EMA maintains a close collaborative relationship with Bial Foundation supporting biomedical research recognition.
• Federsanita' ANCIcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerThe institutional Federation that associates the Public Local Health Units, the Public Hospital Trustees and the Italian Municipalities. Established in October 1995, it connects 166 Public Local Units/Public Hospital Trustees and all Italian Municipalities (above 8,100). Works to improve public healthcare system.
• Europe Business Assembly (EBA)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerInternationally recognized non-governmental organization based in Oxford, UK. Develops and implements projects for economic and social development of regions, companies and corporations.
• European Association for Predictive, Preventive & Personalised Medicine (EPMA)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerEMA serves as the European Coordinator in the field of Predictive, Preventive & Personalised Medicine. Focuses on innovative biotechnologies in prediction of human pathologies, development of well-timed prevention and individual therapy-planning.
• Wolters Kluwer (UpToDate)minorGTM or Marketing PartnerEMA members have access to a special offer on UpToDate subscriptions as a benefit of collaboration with Wolters Kluwer. Members receive 10% off annual individual subscriptions to support evidence-based clinical decision making.
• European Depression Association (EDA)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerAlliance of organisations, patients, researchers and healthcare professionals from 19 countries across Europe supporting those affected by depression.
• Health First EuropeminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerNon-profit, non-commercial alliance of patients, healthcare workers, academics, healthcare experts and medical technology industry ensuring equitable access to modern, innovative and reliable medical technology.
• European Alliance for Access to Safe Medicines (EAASM)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerIndependent, pan-European initiative dedicated to protecting patient safety by ensuring access to safe and legitimate medicines, campaigning for safer use of unlicensed or off-label medicines.
• European Patients Academy (EUPATI)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerProject that better informs patients about medicines R&D and trains them about becoming partners in development process. Led by European Patients' Forum.
• Bios ProjectminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerErasmus+ Sector Skills Alliances project advancing digital skills of medical doctors through modular curricula on Computational Biology & Bioinformatics. 13 partners in 8 EU Member-States, outputs in 9 EU languages.
• European Social Insurance Platform (ESIP)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerPlatform addressing mutual recognition of pharmaceutical manufacturing inspections between US and EU through Mutual Recognition Agreement.
• European Lifestyle Medicine Organization (ELMO)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerOrganization based in Switzerland focused on lifestyle medicine with presence across social media platforms.
• University College London (UCL) Institute for Global HealthcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerEMA collaborated with UCL Institute for Global Health for the September 2025 conference on 'Preparing Medical Professionals on Environmental Health and Climate Change' with support from ENCHE and INPHET networks.
• European Network on Climate and Health Education (ENCHE)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerNetwork collaborating with EMA on environmental health education and climate change impact on human health initiatives.
• International Network on Public Health and Environment Tracking (INPHET)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerNetwork partnering with EMA on public health and environment tracking topics, particularly related to climate change effects on health.
• QS EdizioniminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerDigital publishing house specialized on healthcare and medicine issues. Joint venture between Italian Society of Scientific and Healthcare Communication (SICS) and Health Communication Editions managing Quotidiano Sanita.
• Academy of Medical CannabisminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerInternationally recognized school of education focusing on educating doctors about medical cannabis based on jurisdiction driven regulatory frameworks.
• Virtual Physiological Human Institute (VPH-NoE)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerNetwork of Excellence supporting and progressing European research in physiological human modeling and simulation.

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Emerging players

• European Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgeons (ESCRS): ESCRS is a specialty medical society listed as an EMA institutional member. While specialty-focused, it represents the type of focused clinical society competing for doctor engagement, dues, and policy attention that generalist bodies like EMA must complement.
• European Patients' Forum (EPF): EPF is a pan-European umbrella for patient organisations with a comparable advocacy mission and Brussels policy-engagement model. It represents the patient voice to EU institutions in adjacent territory to EMA's physician-side representation.
• European Public Health Alliance (EPHA): EPHA is a Brussels-based NGO coalition working on EU public health policy. It is an adjacent advocacy peer — competing for the same EU policy agenda bandwidth — though its membership is organisations rather than individual physicians.

Direct peers

• European Association for Predictive, Preventive & Personalised Medicine (EPMA): EPMA is a strategic partner of EMA but also operates as a peer association focused on personalised medicine across Europe. It shares both a membership/policy model and content overlap via the EPMA/EMA journal partnership.
• Standing Committee of European Doctors (CPME): CPME is the most direct peer — a Brussels-based umbrella representing national medical associations across the EU. It competes with EMA for the same EU-level policy voice mandate and for the attention of practising doctors seeking European representation.
• European Union of Medical Specialists (UEMS): UEMS represents medical specialists across the EU through its specialty sections. While more specialty-focused, it competes with EMA for membership of European-oriented doctors and for influence on EU continuing professional development and training policy.

Regional players

• British Medical Association (BMA): BMA is a national medical association/trade union for UK doctors with similar mission of representation, policy influence, and member services. Comparable in operating model and membership tiers, though geographically UK-only rather than pan-European.

Broad incumbents

• World Medical Association (WMA): WMA is a broader global incumbent of physician associations, headquartered in Ferney-Voltaire, France. It operates at a wider geographic scale with overlapping policy and ethics remit, making it a comparable umbrella membership body though with global rather than EU focus.
• American Medical Association (AMA): AMA is the largest national medical association globally and a structural analogue — a membership-based professional association representing physicians and influencing health policy. It serves as a model for organisation, advocacy, and member-service design that EMA's model resembles.
• European Society of Cardiology (ESC): ESC is a large, established European specialty society with deep membership, journals, and congresses. It is a structural analogue in terms of how a European medical association can scale membership, content, and influence — and represents both a peer model and a competitive draw on doctor engagement.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• YouTubeyoutube.com/channel/UCg5Gq5M7FMqKq6L6Q
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/http-www-emanet-org-

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Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

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