UNESCO Amphitheatre / University of Nicosia

Speaker:  Alastair Forbes, Professor of Medicine Summary: The talk will look at diet in Crohn's disease from several different angles.  There is evidence that diet has an important effect on the aetiopathogenesis of the condition, which becomes more common as countries move towards a western industrialised diet. The curious condition of "fat wrapping" of the intestine [...]

Title: Corneal Transplants: Past, Present and Future Speaker: Dr Michalis Palos, MD, Ophthalmologist, Pantheo Eye Centre Summary: Corneal transplantation is a procedure whereby a damaged cornea is replaced by a donor graft. When the entire cornea is replaced the procedure is known as penetrating keratoplasty, and when only part of the cornea is replaced it [...]

Speaker: Reverend Archimandrite Anastasios Poyiadjis, Internal Medicine & Missionary Doctor at the Health Centre of ‘Annunciation’ in Tulear, Madagascar About the Speaker Reverend Archimandrite Anastasios Poyiadjis is an Honorary Professor of Tropical Medicine at the University of Nicosia Medical School. He received his MD and PhD from the Medical School of the University of Athens. [...]

Title: Orthopaedic Intervention in Cerebral Palsy | An overview of surgical decision-making and procedures for patients with CP Speaker: Prof James Mooney, MD | Chief of Staff, Shriners Hospital for Children, Springfield, Massachusetts About the Speaker: PROF JAMES F. MOONEY is the Chief of Staff at Shriners Hospital for Children in Springfield, MA. He received [...]

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