Almaty hosts the first international conference on pulmonology
In Almaty, on April 1 and 2, the Faculty of Medicine and Healthcare of the Kazakh National University, named after Al-Farabi, with the support of the Foundation of the First President of the Republic of Kazakhstan - Elbasy, is holding an international conference «Respiratory Junction Almaty: Where East meets West». The event is held as part of the annual forum «VI International Farabian Readings».
The purpose of the conference is the exchange of knowledge and experience among the leading experts of the East and West on the most current pulmonary diseases. The meeting of medical scientists is designed to raise universal standards of pulmonary care through dialogue and the transfer of knowledge on the latest advances in diagnosis and treatment.
The first international conference «Respiratory Junction Almaty: Where East meets West» is devoted to chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). This is a lung disease characterized by shortness of breath, cough, sputum, and frequent colds with subsequent exacerbations and hospitalization.
According to the global COPD GOLD initiative, more than 300 million people in the world suffer from COPD - that’s 10% of the adult population. Scientists predict that by 2020, mortality from COPD will increase, making it the third leading cause of death. The first two: coronary heart disease and stroke (2015). The disease can be prevented by taking urgent measures to combat the main risk factors: smoking and air pollution.
According to estimates by the Ministry of Health of the Republic of Kazakhstan, the number of patients with COPD in the country is at least 800,000. However, this figure does not correspond to the results of an international study.
«The results of the first international epidemiological study in the territory of the CIS countries on the prevalence of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) are 17 times different from the official figures of the Ministry of Health of the Republic of Kazakhstan, demonstrating the high incidence rate of the population of Kazakhstan compared to other countries using the example of Almaty», the report says the press services of PBN Hill + Knowlton Strategies - a leading international agency dealing with strategic communications in Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan and others CIS countries.
The key speaker at the conference will be one of the world's leading experts in the field of COPD, Klaus Vogelmeier - Professor; doctor habilitat; Chairman of the Scientific Committee of the Global Initiative on Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (GOLD); Director of the Clinic for Internal Medicine, Pulmonology, Intensive Care and Sleep Medicine, University Hospital Giessen and Marburg; Member of the German Center for the Study of Pulmonary Pathology (Marburg, Germany).
The event will include plenary and breakout sessions, as well as a round table with leading pulmonologists from Central Asia, Central and Eastern Europe. The conference announced reports on the review of the management of COPD in developed and developing countries, the use of machine learning algorithms for the objective stratification of patients with COPD, experience of COPD by general practitioners, as well as on the professional methodology of the study of COPD.
The organizers are planning to hold a conference «Respiratory Junction Almaty: Where East meets West» on an annual basis, making it an international educational forum for discussion between experts from countries on pressing problems of pulmonology, such as genetic lung diseases, severe bronchial asthma, comorbid conditions, occupational lung diseases and other
Among the speakers are also:
• Nurlan Dauletbayev - MD, PhD, research doctor, pulmonologist, specialist in personalized medicine, professor at the Faculty of Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec (Canada).
• Muminov Talgat Ashirovich - President of the Academy of Clinical and Fundamental Medicine of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Academician of NAS of the Republic Kazakhstan, Doctor of Medical Sciences, Professor of the Phthisiopulmonology Department of the National Medical University (Kazakhstan).
• Brimkulov Nurlan Nurgaziyevich - Doctor of Medical Sciences, professor, Kyrgyz State Medical Academy named after I.K. Akhunbayev (Kyrgyzstan).
• Nugmanova Damilya Sakenovna - Doctor of Medical Sciences, Professor, President of the Association of Family Doctors of Kazakhstan (Kazakhstan).
• Kuanyshbekova Roza Tokhtanaliyevna - Doctor of Medical Sciences, professor, director of the scientific research institute for cardiology and internal diseases of the Ministry of Health of the Republic of Kazakhstan (Kazakhstan).
• Tair Temirlanovich Nurpeisov - Doctor of Medical Sciences, professor, chief allergist of Almaty, head of the republican allergological center (Kazakhstan).
• Vinnikov Denis Vladimirovich - Doctor of Medical Sciences, Associate Professor, Head of the Research Laboratory of Health and the Environment, Faculty of Medicine and Health of Kazakh National University, named after Al-Farabi (Kazakhstan).
Conference address: Republic of Kazakhstan, Almaty, KazNU, named after Al-Farabi, the library building.
Date and time: April 1-2, 14:00 h.
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Contacts:
Aynash Oshhibayeva - 8 701 717 06 34, ainash.oshibaeva@kaznu.kz
Artur Zhumashev - 8 708 960 56 13, a.zhumashev@fpp.kz
