Members of the WFN Applied Reserach Group (ARG) from many different countries are active in their regions. In 2012, we were focused mainly on Central and Eastern European countries, and we organized several meetings.
As part of these activities, members of the ARG were active in their research, related to importance of delivery of neurological services, educational activities and spreading the knowledge to our colleagues in many parts of the world. Vida Demarin was active at the Eighth Congress of the Society for the Study of Neuroregeneration and Neuroplasticity (SSNN) in March 2012 in Dubrovnik; Management of Pain in November 2012 in Moscow; Neurological Meeting on Stroke in March 2012 in Ljubljana, Slovenia; Challenges on Stroke in April 2012 in Belgrade, Serbia; and Neurological Symposium on Headache in May 2012 in Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina, to mention just a few of them.
Our gorgeous city of Dubrovnik was the host of the 23rd Summer Stroke School with international participation June 4-8. For the first time, the summer school was under the auspices of Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts. The usual and proud auspicates are Inter-University Center Dubrovnik, Croatian Stroke Society, Medical School University of Zagreb, Central and Eastern European Stroke Society and Research Group on Delivery of Neurological Services (RGODNS) of World Federation of Neurology (WFN). The joint meeting of ARG ODNS and the 23rd Summer Stroke School was organized in Interuniversity Center in June 2012 in Dubrovnik.
The aim of the course was to support the cooperation and promote exchange of knowledge and experience among participants from different countries. This meeting shed new light on epidemiology of stroke, its primary and secondary prevention, diagnostics, therapy and rehabilitation. All participants had a unique opportunity to share their national stroke data and discuss about specific stroke problems of their country. Countries of the East and West Europe had an opportunity to work together on solving problems related to stroke, whether they were medical, economical or of some other nature. We can’t skip mentioning that all the hard work was awarded by rich social program during the evenings. We look forward to 2014 course already.
All participants had a unique opportunity to share their national stroke data and discuss about specific stroke problems of their country. Countries of the East and West Europe had an opportunity to work together on solving problems related to stroke.
The 52nd International Neuropsychiatric Pula Congress (INPC) was held June 20-23, 2012 under the auspices of the Croatian president Ivo Josipovic. The congress is traditionally held in Verudela Hotels Brioni and Histria, and organizers are: Kuratorium International Neuropsychiatric Pula Congress, Sestre Milosrnice University Hospital Center, Zagreb, and this year, the Department of Medical Sciences of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts. The main sponsors of the congress were the Ministry of Science, Education and Sports of the Republic of Croatia, the city of Graz, the city of Zagreb and Istria County. This year, more than 350 international particpants attended the congress.
The main themes of the congress were recent achievements in restorative neurology, new advances in psychopathology — the interaction of biological and psychological factors. The theme of the joint meeting of the International Neuropsychiatric Pula Congress in the Section of Neuroscience Alps-Adria was discussions about different therapeutic procedures. Besides the main topic during this year’s congress, numerous symposia were also held: roundtables and workshops in collaboration with the Central and Eastern European Stroke Society (CEESS), World Federation of Neurology, Research Group on Delivery of Neurological Services (WFN RG ODNS) and one topic symposium related to dilemmas in therapies for different neurological disease (stroke, multiple sclerosis, epilepsy and Parkinson’s disease) and the Croatian branch of the Italian Cochrane Centre (CBICC) on the topic: Introduction to the Cochrane systematic review and application of evidence-based medicine in everyday practice, the meeting of the European Society of young neurologists and residents (European Association of Young Neurologists and Trainess – EAYNT), European Summer School of psychopathology in Pula, fifth Pula International Symposium on Epilepsy, neuro-otological course of vertigo, the European standards for doctoral studies in the field of neurology, a symposium on forensic psychiatry, the German Symposium on the ongoing training in neuropsychiatry (Deutschsprachiges Neuropsychiatrisches Fortbildungs Symposium), a symposium on the quality of life of psychiatric patients, a symposium on connecting providers in neurorehabilitation, a symposium on the role and experiences of nurses in the care of patients with incontinence, symposium on deep brain stimulation, interactive school about headache and symposium on palliative care.
We are proud to announce that this year’s 53rd INPC Congress in Pula June 19-22, 2013, had the endorsement of the WFN. We are grateful for all efforts related to ARG organization and its activities.
Battistin is president of the ARG OSNS, and Demarin is the secretary-general of the ARG ODNS.
