Faculty of Medicine University of Maribor

Invitation to next week’s zoom lectures for students and staff members

  1. Translational Neuroscience (Wednesday, 28 April 2021)
  2. Global Health (Thursday, 29 April 2021)

embedded in the ERASMUS International Lecture Series with our Partner Universities of Caen, Istanbul, Ljubljana, Maribor, Marseille, Olomouc, Pécs, Rome and Zagreb

  1. TRANSLATIONAL NEUROSCIENCE

Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Philip Tovote, Julius Maximilian University Würzburg
Lecture title: Neuronal circuits and dynamics of integrated fear & anxiety disorders

Wednesday, 28 April 2021 , 17.00 - 18.30 PM (UTC+2, CEST)

 

2. GLOBAL HEALTH

Lecturers: Prof. Dr. Istvan Szilard & Dr. Zoltán Katz, University of Pécs

Lecture title: Migration health policy aspects in the recent programs of WHO and ECDC
Thursday, 29 April 2021 , 17.00 – 18.30 PM (UTC+2, CEST)

 

Prof. Dr. Istvan Szilard is specialist in Internal Medicine and Public Health Medicine. He has a  Ph.D degree in Health Sciences.

Since 2007 he is acting as Professor tit. at University of Pécs, heading the Migration Health programs of the Medical School and he is the co-director of the WHO Collaborating Centre on Migration Health Training and Research at University of Pécs Medical School.

During the civil war in Post-Yugoslavia he joined to the International Organization for Migration (IOM) in 1996 with the tasks of planning and coordinating emergency and post-conflict humanitarian operations in the Balkans. Between 2004 -2007 he was appointed for IOM Senior Migration Health Adviser for Europe and liaison person to EC on migration health, posted in Brussels.

He was member of the expert teams that have developed WHO and ECDC European migration health strategy and programs.

He has published more than one hundred scientific articles.

The European Parliament has decorated him with the ‘European Citizen’ award in 2017. 

Dr. Zoltán KATZ is assistant lecturer at the Department of Operational Medicine (Migration Health Programs), Medical School, University of Pécs (UP-MS). He graduated as a pharmacist at UP-MS in 2009. His PhD studies deal with the effects of migration on public health safety of the host countries in the European Union with special focus on the epidemiology of infectious diseases, immunization and screening of communicable diseases.

He participated in the implementation of international training and research programs focusing on migrants and ethnic minorities. He gained wide experiences by taking part in field visits and research performed in the Hungarian immigration system (refugee reception centres, border crossing points, etc.) since 2013.

He is taking part in education and development of gradual and post-gradual training programs in the field of medical and pharmaceutical sciences at UP-MS.

Participation at the lectures is possible with the following zoom access link without prior registration

Zoom meeting link for lecture on 28 April 2021 (Philip Tovote/Julius Maximilian University Würzburg)

https://uni-wuerzburg.zoom.us/j/95153217506?pwd=K2ZhakoyMTlHZmRmZlcxYTNCUDFxdz09

Meeting-ID: 951 5321 7506

Passwort: 518725

Zoom meeting link for lecture on 29 April 2021 (Istvan Szilard & Zoltán Katz/University of Pécs)

https://uni-wuerzburg.zoom.us/j/92394840596?pwd=TDlDSkM5VUF6WjlZVXRJODlvUlk0Zz09

Meeting-ID: 923 9484 0596

Password: 605256

Lectures in the following week:

05.05.2021: Modelling  stroke: Impact of comorbidity, age and sex – Marina Radmilović/University of Zagreb

06.05.2021: Mental health in asylum seekers and refugees resettled in Europe - Lorenzo Tarsitani /La Sapienza University Rome

Thank you in advance for spreading the information among your students and staff members.

Best wishes,

Barbara Moll
International Affairs - Faculty of Medicine
Julius Maximilian University of Würzburg
Josef-Schneider-Str. 2 / D7
97080 Würzburg
phone:  0931.201-55224
fax:        0931.201-55222
https://www.med.uni-wuerzburg.de/en/home/