The guest lecture ‘The importance of omega-3 fatty acids in our body’ delivered by William S. Harris, a professor at the Sanford School of Medicine of the University of South Dakota, was organised by the Department of Sports and Nutrition of Rīga Stradiņš University (RSU) and took place on 5 November.
Professor Harris has 39 years of research experience and has authored more than 250 publications on the importance of omega-3 fatty acids in the field of cardiovascular diseases.
On 15 November, the Minister of Health Ilze Viņķele presented certificates of appreciation from both the Ministry of Health and the Cabinet of Ministers to officials and professionals working in public health, healthcare and pharmacy in recognition of their contribution to the development of the Republic of Latvia. Among them were three employees of Rīga Stradiņš University (RSU) who received Certificates of Appreciation of the Ministry of Health.
A delegation from Turkmenistan visited the Faculty of Public Health and Social Welfare of Rīga Stradiņš University (RSU) on 11 – 12 November to take part in a two-day seminar ‘Understanding the development and applications of Registration Systems within the Latvian Health System’ that organised by the faculty.
Kristīne Baumane will defend her doctoral dissertation on 12 December at 16:00 in an open meeting of the Medicine Degree Committee. Baumane's dissertation is titled 'Influence of primary open angle glaucoma surgery on structural and functional parameters of the optic nerve and its association with the level of atrial natriuretic peptide'.
On 8 November, third year students of the Faculty of Dentistry participated in the White Coat Celebration in the Great Hall of Rīga Stradiņš University (RSU). The tradition marks students’ transition from preclinical training with dummies to clinical work with real patients at the Student Clinic of the RSU Institute of Stomatology. More than 90 prospective dentists, both local and international students, attended the event.
A training session on how to use a model for cross-sectoral cooperation developed by researchers at the Institute of Public Health of Rīga Stradiņš University (RSU) took place in Kaunas, Lithuania, on November 12-13. This session was part of the European Union Interreg Baltic Sea Region programme’s project ‘Urban Labs for Better Health for All in the Baltic Sea Region – boosting cross-sectoral cooperation for health and wellbeing in the cities (Healthy Boost)’.
Representatives from a number of international medical institutions that partner with Rīga Stradiņš University (RSU) visited Riga on 7 – 8 November. During the meeting current issues related to the reorganisation of the Medicine study programme (Medicine 2.0) were discussed, including placement opportunities during the last study year.
In late October, Dr. med. Gunta Ancāne, a professor at the Rīga Stradiņš University (RSU) Department of Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy and Head of the Psychosomatic Clinic, was invited to deliver a series of lectures to doctors at the Academy of Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy in Berlin, Germany.
Over the next four years, the Institute of Public Health at Rīga Stradiņš University (RSU) will be participating in the project “Towards elimination of cervical cancer: intelligent and personalised solutions for cancer screening” to modernise cervical cancer screenings. They will be collaborating in this project with the Institute of Family Medicine and Public Health of the University of Tartu (Estonia), the Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, and the Norwegian Cancer Registry.
After two and a half years, the project Age Is Not an Obstacle, funded by NordPlus Adult, has come to an end. The project was aimed at raising the standard of living for senior citizens in the Baltic States and encouraging them to lead a more active lifestyle after retirement.
