A few words from the President of the Organizing Committee
Dear Colleagues,
It is well known that working on prototype research of social interest is preferred than working on research in order to increase our C.V. Quality versus quantity of papers from all medical specialties, medical pharmacology and technology is what we wish to have.
One way to improve quality of our research is communicate with other colleagues, from all medical specialties discussing and evaluating our scientific work. This is what we wish to have in the Contests.
Medicine is considered the most important among all sciences. According to Hippocrates, medicine is the only science that can treat disease and offer better conditions of living. Socrates considered that a physician as being an “educated man” should express honesty, reason, humility and should control his pleasures. We may add that physicians when treating others can retrieve happiness.
The schedule of the Olympiad is organized very carefully, as to be concise and offer useful prototype knowledge. The first prize is dedicated to the distinguished medical scientist Anastasios Tousimis from Meryland.
In the 4th Contest we shall have for the first time an additional contest similar to that in ancient medical Contests, in Efessos. Three sets of questions will be distributed to all patricians and the best asses will be rewarded. This event is dedicated to the distinguished medical scientist George Sfakianakis from Florida.
Furthermore, for the first time we shall have a working lunch meeting of the advisors and members of the administrative board. This meeting will take place in the premises of our association in Hermou 51 street, 6th floor, on Saturday evening, 4th of November 2017.
On Sunday morning November 5 2017 all participants and friends are requested to participate to an excursion to Alexander the Great capital, Pella-museum, to Edessa falls and museum of living reptiles, and to Loutraki hot spa-38o Celcium and the only Paleolithic museum.
We welcome you all and hope that you will experience a fruitful and pleasant stay during the 4th Medical Olympicus Contest.
The President of the Organizing Committee
Philip C. Grammaticos
The Organizing Committee
Presidents: Grammaticos Philip and Argyropoulou-Pataka Paraskevi Members (alphabetically): Ajdinovic Boris, Baloyannis Stavros, Bandopadhyaya Gurupad, Boudoulas Haris, Dardavesis Theodoros, Foroglou Pericles, Giannoulis Eleftherios, Haitidis Evgenios, Karamouzis Michalis, Kokkas Vasileios, Mironidou-Tzouveleki Maria, Natsis Konstantinos, Orologas Anastasios, Palumbo Barbara, Papavramidou Niki, Rubini Giuseppe, Sinzinger Helmut, Siokos Apostolos, Tzafettas Ioannis, Yamamoto Tomoaki
The Scientific Committee
President: Manthos Anastasios, Ex-rector of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Members (alphabetically): Bostanzopoulou Sevasti, Karakioulakis George, Karamouzis Michael, Oikonomou Panayiotis, Tsolaki Magda
The Awards Committee
Manthos Anastasios, Grammaticos Philip, Argyropoulou-Pataka Paraskevi, Foroglou Pericles
The International Advisors (alphabetically)
1. Abass Alavi, Philadelphia, President – Christos Katsetos, Philadelphia, USA, 2. Boris Ajdinovic, Belgrade – Milovan Matovic, Kragujevac, Serbia, 3. Gurupad Bandopadyaya, New Delhi – Devinder Dhawan, Chandigarh, India, 4. Frank De Geeter, Brussels – Alex Sarafidis, Brussels, Belgium, 5. Serafim Doungou, Kenya, 6. Jun Hatazawa, Osaka – Tomoaki Yamamoto, Tokyo, Japan, 7. Poul Henning Madsen, Denmark, 8. Hans van Isselt, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 9. Tom Karagiannis, Melbourne, Australia, 10. Christos Lionis, Cyprus, 11. Amir Nikouei, Tehran, Iran 12. Andreas Petropoulos, Baku, Azerbaijan, 13. Andreas Petropoulos, Lausanne Switzerland, 14. Giuseppe Rubini, Bari – Barbara Palumbo, Perugia, Italy, 15. Helmut Sinzinger, Vienna, Austria, 16. Mike Sathege, South Africa, 17. Henry Tam, U.K (more replies expected).
The Cooperating Societies
The Society of Atherosclerosis. The Society of Gastrenterology. The Society of Geriatrics. The Society of Gynecology. The Society of Plastic Surgery, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Medicine. The Hellenic Society of the study of Addictive Substances. The Society of Sports Medicine. The Society of Nuclear Medicine. The Society of Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Diseases. The Society of Multiple Sclerosis. The Hellenic Society of Nephrology, The Society of Sports Medicine
Preliminary Programme
(Time for presentation of papers: 10min. Time for discussion: 5min)
Friday 3 November 2017
09.30 – 14.30 Registration
Time for presentation: 15min. Time for discussion: 5min
Genetics, Nuclear Medicine, Plastic Surgery, Pharmacology
Chairpersons:
10.00 – 12.00 Helmut Sinzinger (Austria) – Pericles Foroglou (Greece) – Natalie Bonvino (Australia) – Mike
Sathege (South Africa)
12.20 – 12.30 Welcome address – Announcements
12.30 – 12.50 Coffee / Tea break
Internal Medicine, Nuclear Medicine, Neurology, Immunology
Chairpersons:
12.50 – 13:30 Henry Tam (UK) – Gurupad Bandopadhyaya (India) – Giuseppe Rubini (Italy) – Dungu Serafim
(Kenya) – Efstratios Iliadelis (Greece)
13:30 – 14:30 Advisors’ meeting
14.30 Lunch break
Internal Medicine, Cardiology, Obstetrics, Gynecology, Nuclear Medicine
Chairpersons:
17.30 – 19:30 Ioannis Tzafettas (Greece) – Giagkos Lavranos (Cyprus) – Andreas Petropoulos (Baku) – Devinder
Dhawan (India)
19:30 – 20:30 Invited lecture – Professor Afxendios Kalangos: Recent advances in cardiac surgery and high standard
humanitarian cardiac surgery
20:30 – 21:30 Welcome reception
Saturday 4 November 2017
Ophthalmology, Cardiology, Endocrinology, Diabetes, Surgery
Chairpersons:
09.30 – 11.30 Fotios Topouzis (Greece) – Harisios Boudoulas (USA) – George Efthymiadis (Greece) – Triantafyllos
Didaggelos (Greece)
11.30 – 12.00 Coffee / Tea break
Neurology, Psychology, Cancer, Pharmacology, Dermatology, Anesthesiology
Chairpersons:
12.00 – 14.00 Magda Tsolaki (Greece) – Maria Mironidou (Greece) – Demetrios Ioannidis (Greece) – Milovan
Matovic (Serbia)
14.00 – 17.00 Lunch break
Nuclear Medicine, Technology, Surgery, Pediatrics, Sports Medicine
Chairpersons:
17.00 – 19.00 Tomoaki Yamamoto (Japan) – Boris Ajdinovic (Serbia) – Vassilios Kokkas (Greece) – Konstantinos
Natsis (Greece)
Nephrology, Urology Neurology, Cardiac Surgery, Gastroenterology
Chairpersons:
19.00 – 21.00 Stavros Baloyannis (Greece) – Andreas Petropoulos (Azerbaijan) -Eleftherios Giannoulis (Greece)
– Alexandros Sarafidis (Belgium)
21.00 – 22.00 Conclusions- Awards-Prizes- Honorary prizes to Anastasios Tousimis, Maryland and George Sfakianakis, Florida
Sunday 5 November 2017
09.00 – 18.00 Excursion to: a) Pella, the capital city of Alexander the Great where one can see Museum, the Mosaics, the Palace and the famous draining system. b) To Edessa where one can see the waterfalls, the cave with stalactites and the living reptiles’ museum. c) To Loutraki Spa where one can see the hot waterfalls 37o C, the old, ancient caves with stalactites and the first Paleolithic Museum in Greece. Lunch either in Loutraki or in Edessa.
Information
Meeting venue: Electra Palace Hotel- 5 stars, Aristotelous Square 9, Tel: (+30) 2310 294 000 Thessaloniki, Greece. Official language of the Meeting: English.
Prizes: This time in the 4th Medical Contest we are proud to announce prizes to be awarded in a special session to two distinguish colleagues: Dr. Anastasios Tousimis, from Maryland in honour of his prototype multiple scientific contribution in Medicine for more than 60 years, and to: Dr. George Sfakianakis from Florida in honour of his prototype multiple scientific contribution in Medicine.
Both these two prizes will be gold plated or golden and accompanied by a diploma and a monetary prize.
As in all previous Olympiads, three prizes will be awarded to the three best papers among all and will be accompanied by a diploma and a gift.
In the 4th Contest for the first time will be another contest. The winner of this contest will be the one to give the best answers to 3 existing medical problems- questions. These questions are mentioned below. In ancient Olympics, there was a similar contest and prize. We know that similar medical contests were held in Ancient Olympics in the city of Efessos, Asia Minor and in other ancient Greek cities. One of the questions asked in Efessos was: What you may diagnose in a patient with very pale face etc. and what you will suggest for treatment.
The three questions to be answered referred to the following subjects:
Subject 1. Description: A 40 years old man feels very tired after intense physical exercise walk for 3km.
Questions: a) Can you give the complete definition of fatigue? Describe findings in various systems, mainly the respiratory, cardiovascular, tendomuscular and nervous systems.
b) When you expect the above man will be completely rested? Describe rest as opposite to the above findings of fatigue.
Subject 2. Description: A patient with an intense back pain has a heavy headache, a flash on his face and feels warm and heavy head. His blood pressure, heart beats and respiration are normal.
Questions: Can you support or reject the following?: a) The brain secretes endorphins or other substances in response and in order to ease pain.
b) The brain when the patient is in a status of intense pain or stress, functions independently in order to respond to pain. This brain response has no influence on heart rate and respiration.
Subject 3. Description: The director of a firm -a 40 years old man in good health- asks his physician to suggest to him: a) the best place to go for his summer holidays and b) to tell him for how long is best to have his holiday programme.
Questions: If you were the physician would you suggest: a) a place at sea level, at 200m height, or 400m height and why and b) for how long the summer holidays must last in order to be of best health benefit to the director?
Instructions for Abstracts. Abstracts may be up to one and a half A4 page long, with borders of 2cm around the text and 1.5 distance between the lines, written in Times New Roman letters size 12, at any format, preferably the format of the Hell. J. Nucl. Med., http://nuclmed.web.auth.gr. Abstracts and all the whole papers may be published after the authors’ consent, in the supplement of HJNM, IF. 1.015. Deadline for submitting detailed abstracts or the complete paper is Monday October 9, 2017.
Criteria for the evaluation of papers have been: a) Originality on a new subject-basis: 40%, or on an existing concept: 30%, b) Social impact: 25%, c) Statistical support or sufficient proof of results: 25%, d) Typical and simple presentation: 10%
The final programme-booklet will be distributed to the participants who register in the Contest. This booklet shall include: a) all necessary and additional information for the 4rth Contest, b) the abstracts of all papers orally presented and 2 questions and their answers given by the authors.
There will be only one invited lecture which will be presented on Saturday evening on the 4th of November 2017.
Round tables, other lectures or posters are not allowed in the Contests.
The Chairpersons of every session will have a few minutes to introduce the speakers. For every paper to be presented, at least one author should be registered. The time allowed for every orally presented paper will be 15min and for discussion, 5min. Authors are kindly requested to comply with this timetable. For more information please contact us at the e-mail address of the Association.
The Excursion: All participants to the Οlympiad and their accompanying members may participate on Sunday 5-11-2017 to the excursion to: Pella, the capital city of Alexander the Great, the museum where one can see the marble head of Alexander the Great, the mosaics, 8 the Palace, the famous draining system of the City etc. Then to: Edessa, where one can see the famous waterfalls, the cave of stalactites and the unique museum of living reptiles. Then to: Loutraki, where one can see the hot waterfalls at 37o C, the stalactites and the unique Paleolithic museum. Lunch either in Loutraki or in Edessa. The excursion will be escorted by an experienced tourist guide. The excursion bus will leave Electra Hotel at about 09.30am and return at about 18.00 hours. Please book early. Price: 20 euros – Lunch (optional): 15 euros.
Registration fee: The registration fee is 150€ and includes, the Meeting, the coffee breaks and the programme with all abstracts and the questions and answers of the authors. This fee may be partly waved after communication with the Organizing Committee. For every paper to be presented, at least one author should be registered.
You may pay by person at the secretariat or via our account of Iatrikos Olympicos Syndesmos in Alpha Bank IBAN: GR500 140 7080 474 002 002 004 801, BIC: CRBAGRAAXXX. The name of the treasurer is Professor Eleftherios Giannoulis Please mention the name of the depositor.
Accommodation: The following hotels are suggested for the participants of the Contest. You may inquire more about traveling and accommodation arrangements at our secretariat: molympicus@gmail.com. You may also visit: www.medolympicus.gr and/or www.facebook.com/medolympicus
Meeting Venue:
Electra Palace Hotel/ 5 stars (A), Aristtelous Square 9 street, P.C. 54624 Tel: (+30) 2310 249 000.
Room Type/ Price per day: Single Room: 121 euros. Double Room: 138 euros
Luxembourg Hotel/ 3+ stars (B Sup), Rogoti- Komninon 6 street, P.C 54624, Thessaloniki, Tel: (+30) 2310 252600 Room Type/ Price per day: Single Room: 61 euros Double Room: 75 Five minutes’ walk from Electra Palace.https://www.mouzenidis.com/greece/hotel/luxemburg-hotel
Aegeon Hotel/ 3 stars (B), Egnatia 30 street, P.C. 54630, Tel: (+30) 2310 522921 Room Type/ Price per day: Single Room: 37 euros Double Room: 43 euros. Twenty minutes from the Meeting Venue, Electra Palace.https://www.mouzenidis.com/greece/hotel/aegeon-hotel
City Hotel/ 4 stars (A), Komninon 11 street, P.C. 54624, Tel: (+30) 2310 569421 Room Type/Price per day: Double Room for Single Room- City View: 83 euros Double Room City View: 93 euros. Seven minutes from Electra Palace Meeting Venue.https://www.mouzenidis.com/greece/hotel/city-hotel
Egnatia Palace Hotel/ 4 stars (A), Egnatia 61 street, P.C. 54631, Tel:(+30) 2310 222900 Room Type/ Price per day: Single Room- 62 euros Double Room- 74 euros Eight minutes from Electra Palace Meeting Venue.
https://www.mouzenidis.com/greece/hotel/egnatia-palace
Kinissi Palace/ 4 stars (A), Egnatia 41 street, P.C. 54630, Tel: (+30) 2310 508089. Room Type/ Price per day: Single Room: 50 euros Double Room: 58 euros. Fifteen minutes from Meeting Venue, Electra Palace.
https://www.mouzenidis.com/greece/hotel/kinissi-palace
Amalia Hotel/ 2 stars (A), Hermou 33 street, P.C. 54624, Tel (+30) 2310 268321-5
Room Type/ Price per day: Single Room: 40 euros Double Room: 50 euros.
Three minutes from Meeting Venue, Electra Palace.
www.hotelamalia.gr
More convenient hotels will be suggested later.
