Highlights of the Eastern European Neurology Association

Gary Podolsky

The 2005 meeting took place in Odessa, Ukraine and was attended by many representatives of Eastern European Neurology.

The official language was English but some speakers spoke Russian and Ukrainian with simultaneous translation available.

The topics covered broad reaching subjects within the Neurosciences with updates of the most recent changes in Diagnosis and treatment.

Dr Liliya Zvagina of Odessa who also arranged tours of the city and cultural events in addition to the conference hosted the meeting.

I was very impressed by the warmth and friendliness of the meeting and as a Western Physician I would strongly recommend attending future such events.

Attending a medical meeting with speakers having different backgrounds from my own was refreshing and helped open me to new ways of looking at things. It was quite easy to strike up kinship with these doctors since we have all been trained in a Latin based medical curriculum and understand the same basic anatomical and physiological assumptions regarding human anatomy that separates us from laypeople. Also clinically we also see the same types of patients with many similar problems so we can readily understand each other.

Even though we work within different political frameworks the same difficulties with obtaining timely tests and investigations and other such tests is universal in all medical systems.

The next meeting of the Eastern Neurology Association is planned to take place in Odessa again 2007 25-29 April. Three of the proposed topics are Epilepsy, Traumatic brain and spine injuries, and Pain syndromes (headache s planned).

More details will become available with speakers from Central and Eastern Europe.

Please contact Dr Vzagina for details regarding accommodations and registration at zvs@paco.net

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