A symposium of doctors from Russia the USA Japan and Armenia is taking place in Irkutsk

In Irkutsk, at the Neurosurgery Center of the Railway Clinical Hospital, a congress of specialists is taking place, with scientists from Russia, Japan, the United States and Armenia. The program includes practical and lecture courses with 3D presentations, exchange of advanced experience and training of young neurosurgeons during operations. Over three days, about one hundred specialists will present reports, and the center also spoke about an international neurosurgery study and the introduction of new technologies in patient treatment.

A congress of medical workers in the field of neurosurgery is being held at the Neurosurgery Center of the NUZ Road Clinical Hospital at Irkutsk-Passazhirsky station of the East Siberian Railway. Scientists from Russia, Japan, the United States, and Armenia will take part in the symposium.
During the event, practical and lecture courses using 3D presentations are being held for young neurosurgeons and vertebrologists, along with the exchange of advanced experience among visiting leading scientists and the acquisition of practical experience during surgical operations.
Over the course of three days, about one hundred specialists will speak at the congress. This was reported by the press service of the East Siberian Railway.
The head of the regional medical support directorate of the East Siberian Railway, chief physician of the NUZ Road Clinical Hospital at Irkutsk-Passazhirsky station Elena Semenishcheva emphasized that the continuous theoretical and practical self-improvement of specialists is the foundation for the work of the Neurosurgery Center.
"This, in turn, is necessary for the fastest possible return of Russian Railways employees to work through a full cycle of medical services. Holding such symposia contributes to the formation of neurosurgical leadership in the region and in the Russian Railways system through scientific, personnel, and technical potential," Elena Semenishcheva noted.
The Neurosurgery Center was established in 2014 on the basis of the NUZ "Road Clinical Hospital at Irkutsk-Passazhirsky station of JSC "Russian Railways". At the beginning of July, an international study in the field of neurosurgery began at the center. It became possible thanks to a grant of 24 million rubles from the Russian Science Foundation, won on a competitive basis, by the chief neurosurgeon of JSC "Russian Railways", head of the Neurosurgery Center of the NUZ Road Clinical Hospital at Irkutsk-Passazhirsky station Vadim Byvaltsev.
The results will be actively implemented in clinical practice. Patients of the railway clinic will be the first to be able to receive treatment using new technologies.
As the press service said, the center's main areas of work are minimally invasive neurosurgery (microsurgery and endoscopy for diseases of the central and peripheral nervous systems), neuro-oncology, neurotraumatology, and neuroorthopedics.