Lecture by Prof. Kaščejevs at annual meeting of the Department of Internal Diseases and the Institute of the History of Medicine

The traditional academic meeting of the RSU Department of Internal Diseases and the Institute of the History of Medicine will be held for the 17th consecutive year to celebrate the start of the new academic year. The meeting will take place at 16:00 on 29 August at Pauls Stradiņš Museum for the History of Medicine, 1 Antonijas Iela.

The meetings were initiated by two RSU professors, Aivars Lejnieks and Juris Salaks, in 2003. The idea was to hold a meeting at Pauls Stradiņš Museum of the History of Medicine prior to the start of the academic year to look back at the twists and turns of the history of medicine. Over the years this gathering has grown into an open interdisciplinary academic meeting which gathers employees from the Department of Internal Diseases, the Institute of the History of Medicine, the RSU Rector’s Office, the RSU Dean’s Office, various RSU structural units, the heads of RSU clinics, representatives of the Latvian Academy of Sciences and other interested parties. Each year the meeting is enriched by open lectures delivered by invited lecturers.

This year physician and professor Vjačeslavs Kaščejevs will deliver a lecture titled ‘What does science know, and what do scientists believe?’ The lecture will discuss what physics can reveal (and, most importantly, not reveal) about the history and scale of the universe, and the relationship between the spiritual and the material. The professor will also outline the metaphysical framework for the scientific method.

The Head of the Department of Internal Diseases, Professor Aivars Lejnieks, and the Director of the Institute of the History of Medicine, Professor Juris Salaks, will chair the meeting.

The lecture is open to all interested parties.

Vjačeslavs Kaščejevs is among the most renowned representative of the new generation of Latvian researchers. He is a physician and a professor at the University of Latvia and an associate of the Latvian Academy of Sciences. He has received the prestigious World Economic Forum Award for his achievements in quantum nanoelectronics.