On 6 June RSU Faculty of Medicine Department of Internal Diseases will hold the Cardiology Olympiad Cor nostrum for 3rd year Medicine students.
The objective of the Olympiad is to mark out the most talented and brightest students with excellent academic knowledge in cardiology and propaedeutics.
The Olympiad Cor nostrum has been held since 2012 and is continuing the traditions of the Olympiad of Propaedeutics A capite ad calcem.
This year the traditional SELL student games were held in Tartu, Estonia. The annual three-day sporting event was held from 18 to 20 May, bringing together young athletes from 8 countries representing 49 universities, among them Rīga Stradiņš University (RSU) with 69 participants.
From 28 May to 2 June Rīga Stradiņš University (RSU) will participate in National Health Day, held as part of the NowWeMove campaign.
The first RSU medical resident has successfully completed an Erasmus+ mobility at the prestigious San Raffaele University Hospital in Milan. This mobility was based on a recent Erasmus+ agreement signed by RSU and Vita-Salute San Raffaele University.
RSU Department of Pathology is organising the 11th Meeting of Baltic Association of Neuropathologists (BAN) on Saturday, 26 May. The participants include members of RSU academic staff and guests from London, Berlin, Lund, Vilnius and Klaipeda.
On 21 May at 15:00 in an open meeting of the Rīga Stradiņš University (RSU) Medical Promotion Council held in the Hippocrates Lecture Theatre (Rīga, 16 Dzirciema iela) Andris Skride defended his doctoral thesis “Haemodynamic parameter assessment and mortality risk factor identification in patients with pulmonary arterial and chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension”.
During menopause women’s health is affected not only by hormonal changes but also by lifestyle and eating habits. Lecturer and nutrition expert at Rīga Stradiņš University (RSU) Faculty of Public Health and Social Welfare, Department of Sports and Nutrition Laila Meija encourages women to change their bad habits and shares valuable dietary advice for maintaining quality of life and avoiding heart disease, osteoporosis and weight gain when going through menopause.
The 14th joint symposium of Rostock University and Rīga Stradiņš University on Maxillofacial Trauma Treatment will be held at RSU Institute of Dentistry 24–26 May, 2018.
Opening: 25 May 9:00 @ RSU Institute of Dentistry.
The Lattelecom Rīga Latvian Centenary marathon, held on 20 May had a record number of participants – over 37 thousand runners – and the Rīga Stradiņš University (RSU) team can pride itself with an all-time record number of runners who reached the finish line – 223 marathon runners.
On 10 and 11 May the Vice-Dean of the RSU Faculty of Medicine Ingus Skadiņš and professor of the RSU Department of Internal Diseases, Oskars Kalējs visited Atlanta, USA where they were shown modern study initiatives. RSU un RTU representatives took part in the annual meeting of the consortium of Vertically-integration projects.
