Boris
07-07-2008, 07:40 PM
By way of Liliya Jones:
July 6, 2008
Greetings to all,
I joined RAMA about a week ago, shortly after I stumbled across this website and information about a mission of cardiothoracic surgeons to my home town of Kemerovo, Russia. I had special feelings about this news because I was employed in a hospital where this group will be working.
I had a short discussion with Drs. Yakov Elgudin and Boris Vinogsadsky, and was asked by them to share information with others about my own mission, which is rehabilitation and lymphedema management.
Because little information about this topic is available in Russia, on each of my visits to Kemerovo, I do some work to increase knowledge about this condition among Russian doctors and thus far, my efforts have been well received by them. For example, last summer I conducted a lecture-seminar on this subject for doctors and clinical staff of the local Medical Academy. Two of them decided to join my project and provide a questionnaire regarding the availability of information sources for doctors and nurses.
I invited a professor from Tennessee State University to collaborate on this project and write a proposal for a grant from the International Research Exchanges Program (IREX). The proposal was written, but the program being offered through IREX focused on public health issues; consequently, my proposal was not funded. This year, however, I am going to attend the International Convention of Lymphologists in Novosibirsk. My goal will be to increase the attention given by doctors and medical school staff to the pathology of the lymphatic system and methods for noninvasive treatment. I would also like to provide a seminar on the same topic to medical students in Kemerovo. Moreover, I am preparing a booklet for breast cancer patients with secondary lymphedema. For this particular moment, it will be my humanitarian work in Siberia.
I strongly believe everybody can do things of this nature when visiting your own home towns in Russia; not only for specific medical topics, but for any other, such as the education system in the USA, travel, family, religion, sport etc. Here we have any information we want, so don’t be afraid to share it with Russian doctors and patients.
Best wishes to everyone.
Liliya Jones
July 6, 2008
Greetings to all,
I joined RAMA about a week ago, shortly after I stumbled across this website and information about a mission of cardiothoracic surgeons to my home town of Kemerovo, Russia. I had special feelings about this news because I was employed in a hospital where this group will be working.
I had a short discussion with Drs. Yakov Elgudin and Boris Vinogsadsky, and was asked by them to share information with others about my own mission, which is rehabilitation and lymphedema management.
Because little information about this topic is available in Russia, on each of my visits to Kemerovo, I do some work to increase knowledge about this condition among Russian doctors and thus far, my efforts have been well received by them. For example, last summer I conducted a lecture-seminar on this subject for doctors and clinical staff of the local Medical Academy. Two of them decided to join my project and provide a questionnaire regarding the availability of information sources for doctors and nurses.
I invited a professor from Tennessee State University to collaborate on this project and write a proposal for a grant from the International Research Exchanges Program (IREX). The proposal was written, but the program being offered through IREX focused on public health issues; consequently, my proposal was not funded. This year, however, I am going to attend the International Convention of Lymphologists in Novosibirsk. My goal will be to increase the attention given by doctors and medical school staff to the pathology of the lymphatic system and methods for noninvasive treatment. I would also like to provide a seminar on the same topic to medical students in Kemerovo. Moreover, I am preparing a booklet for breast cancer patients with secondary lymphedema. For this particular moment, it will be my humanitarian work in Siberia.
I strongly believe everybody can do things of this nature when visiting your own home towns in Russia; not only for specific medical topics, but for any other, such as the education system in the USA, travel, family, religion, sport etc. Here we have any information we want, so don’t be afraid to share it with Russian doctors and patients.
Best wishes to everyone.
Liliya Jones