Opening event of Semmelweis Memorial Year
Date: 2018-06-05INVITATION
The Medical Section of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and the Semmelweis University cordially invites you to the opening ceremony of the Ignác Semmelweis Memorial Year
Location: Main Building of the HAS, Assembly Hall (1051 Budapest, Széchenyi István tér 9. I. em.)
Time: 5th of June, 2018 (Tuesday) 10 am
Main Patron: János Áder, President
Patrons: Ministry of Human Resources, Ágoston Szél, Rector of the Semmelweis University, Béla Merkely Béla, Elected Rector of the Semmelweis University
Presiding chairs: György Kosztolányi, President of the Medical Section; Veronika Ádám, Vice President of the Medical Section
Programme
10.00 Inaugural: László Lovász, President of the HAS
10.10 Greetings: János Áder, President, György Kosztolányi, President of the Medical Section of the HAS, Ágoston Szél, Rector of the Semmelweis University
10.20 The legacy of Ignac Semmelweis his impact on the global health priorities of the 21 st century
Dr. Zsuzsanna Jakab (Regional Director for Europe, World Health Organization)
10.50 Hygiene versus contagiosity: the legacy of Ignaz Semmelweis
Prof. Dr. Jean-Marc Cavaillon (Institut Pasteur, Unite d’Histopathologie humaine et modeles animaux)
11.20 Human hands – miracle and danger (A Hommage to Ignaz Semmelweis or Semmelweis, a conflict between common sense and academia)
Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Graninger (Allgemeines Krankenhaus der Stadt Wien)
11.50 I. Semmelweis, a serendipitous European clinical investigator with a special view from the French Academy of Medicine, the Pasteur’s House
Prof. Dr. Bernard Charpentier, president (Federation of European Academies of Medicine)
12.20 Hidden Traces. The legacy of Ignaz Semmelweis in the Berlin Museum of Medical History at the Charité
Prof. Dr. Thomas Schnalke (Berliner Medizinhistorisches Museum der Charité)
13.20 Closing remarks
Participation is subject to prior registration. Register here: http://mta.hu/esemenynaptar/2018-06-05-semmelweis-ignac-emlekev-nyitorendezvenye-2004
The conference language is English without translation.
You can download the invitation letter here…