November 17, 2008        3:00 PM         

 

 

 

WEEKLY LECTURES ON TRAUMA SURGERY, CRITICAL CARE, TELEMEDICINE AND E-HEALTH SERIES

Rifat Latifi, M.D. F.A.C.S.

Professor of Surgery, The University of Arizona

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November 17, 2008 The fifth lecture in series was successfully held under the title: "Nutrition of trauma patients" Speaker: Rifat Latifi, University of Arizona, USA. Medical professionals from regional hospitals attended lecture through live video link from Telemedicine Centre of Kosova.

 

November 10, 2008 Fourth week in series presentation: "Management of Abdominal Vascular Injuries" Live speech from University of Arizona, Professor of Surgery Rifat Latifi, M.D. F.A.C.S. Attended by all regional hospitals in Kosova through multiconference.

November 04, 2008 Center for Continuing Nursing Education holds a seminar: "Improvement of health services in PHC". Seminar was attended by dozens of PHC nurses and technicians.

 

November 03, 2008 Second week in series presentation: "Principles and Practices of Damage Control Surgery - More than just trauma surgery". Live from University of Arizona, Professor of Surgery Rifat Latifi, M.D. F.A.C.S.

November 03, 2008 Professor Emilia Svetkovska  held a presentation at the TCK under the title: "Therapeutic effectiveness of LAMALI". This event was sponsored by the pharmaceutical company "ALKALOID" in Skopje. Presentation was attended by dozens of medical staff of UCCK.

October 31, 2008 "ACIBADEM" company from Turkey in cooperation with Department of Neurosurgery (UCCK), held a seminar at TCK. Topics: "Gamma Knife Radio surgery", "Surgical Treatment of Movement Disorders", "New Techniques in External Beam Radiotherapy" etc. The event was attended by dozens of professionals of this field. poster
October 27, 2008 Professor Rifat Latifi, University of Arizona held the second lecture under the title: "ABC of a trauma system". Professionals from regional hospitals of Gjilan, Prizren, Skenderaj and Gjakova participated through video link.
October 24, 2008 Center for Continuing Nursing Education (MOH) holds a meeting with regional hospital representatives and discusses the monitoring process of health / nursing services in the regional hospitals.
October 21, 2008 Commercial presentation. "Interpharm" company presents orthopedic accessories for the professionals of this field.
October 20, 2008 Professor Latifi meets through multi-videoconference with the participants of telemedicine program. It is the first lecture in series that will be held weekly. Participants from regional hospitals in Gjakova, Gjilan and Prizren could interact as well.

October 16, 2008 Surgery department of UCCK in ccoperation with University Clinic in Mannheim, Germany successfully finished the third international symposium of general surgery. Surgical interventions as part of program were transmitted live to the TCK where participants attended interactively.

 

October 8, 2008 Kosova Open Medical Club / American Austrian Foundation / Open Medical Institute successfully completed a seminar: "Neuroradiology and interventional therapy procedures in neuroradiology". The seminar opening ceremony was held in Grand Hotel Prishtina. The other two days of seminar were conducted at the Telemedicine Centre of Kosova. Clinical staff of regional hospital of Gjakova could attend the seminar through a live videoconference link. More

May 29, 2008 First international student congress of Medical Sciences - Kosova 2008. Second day of congress was held at the Telemedicine centre of Kosova. The participating students had the opportunity to meet through a live videoconference with Arizona University with the students and Professor Rifat Latifi. Click for more...

May 26, 2008 "Balkans Breast Cancer Initiative Week" Organized by US Embassy in Kosova. An initiative consisting of presentation meetings around Kosova about preventiion and information on breast cancer. Presenters: Dr Balsz Bodai, Karin Posner from US Embassy and representatives of  JetaVita an local association.

 

April 24, 2008 Kosovar Association for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy in cooperation with TCK held a seminar: "Sėmundjet malinje tė traktit gastrointestinal". Except participants in the auditorium, professionals from three regional hospitals: Gjakova, Gjilan and Skenderaj participated through a live multi-videoconference run by Telemedicine IT department.