Preliminary Program
Monday, 23 August 2021
RSU Anatomy Museum, 9 Kronvalda blvd.
9:00 - 16:00 Pre-Congress Workshop by Yoel Donchin M.D, Center for Medical Education, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel "The smart use of video clips and movies as an effective tool for teaching History of Medicine" (25.00 EUR). More information
16:00 - ISHM Executive bureau meeting
17:00 - ISHM Administrative council meeting & polls
18:00 - 21:00 Get-together party. Museum galleries opened.
Tuesday, 24 August 2021
RSU Anatomy Museum, 9 Kronvalda blvd.
9:00-10:00 Registration available
10:00-11:45 Opening ceremony (speeches & concert)
10:45-11:30 Keynote lecture by Jacalyn Duffin “Stanley's Dream: The Medical Expedition to Easter Island”
11:30-12:30 Coffee break and opening of ISHM Summer Course pop-up exhibition
12:30-14:00 Parallel sessions [1]
14:00-14:30 Lunch break
14:30-16:00 Parallel sessions [2]
Pharmacy Museum, Riharda Vāgnera 13
19:00-22:00 Museum visit, old town tour and unveiling a commemorative plaque dedicated to the first Anatomical Theatre in Riga (1753) Old town tour and Pharmacy museum
Wednesday, 25 August 2021
The sattelite symposium "Anatomy & Beyond"
RSU Anatomy Museum, 9 Kronvalda blvd.
10:00-10:45 Keynote lecture by Alexander Lucas Bieri “Andreas Vesal’s Lasting Impact on the Art of the Danse Macabre”
10:45-11:30 Panel discussion moderated by Theo Dirix “Anatomy and Beyond”
11:30-12:00 Coffee break
12:00-12:30 Poster sessions [1]
12:30-14:00 Parallel sessions [3]
14:00-14:30 Lunch break
14:30-16:00 Parallel sessions [4]
Rīga Stradiņš University, Anatomy Museum, Kronvalda 9
19:00-21:00 Opening up Anatomy Museum. Rector’s reception
*congress satellite conference “Anatomy&Beyond”
Thursday, 26 August 2021
RSU Anatomy Museum, 9 Kronvalda blvd.
10:00-10:45 Keynote lecture by Nils Hansson “How (not) to Win the Nobel Prize: Winners and Losers in Nobel Prize history”
10:45-11:30 Panel discussion moderated by Nils Hansson “Doctors and Nobel Prize in Literature”
11:30-12:00 Coffee break
12:00-12:30 Poster sessions [2]
12:30-14:00 Parallel sessions [5]
14:00-14:30 Lunch break
14:30-16:00 Parallel sessions [6]
19:00-23:00 Gala dinner. Pauls Stradiņš Awards Ceremony. More information
Friday, August 27 2021
RSU Anatomy Museum, 9 Kronvalda blvd.
10:00-10:45 Keynote lecture by Dan Healey “The Notebooks of Gulag Doctors: Medical service in Stalin’s Labour Camps”
10:45-11:30 Panel discussion moderated by Florian Steger “Medicine and Totalitarianism”
11:30-12:00 Coffee break
12:00-13:00 General Assembly
13:00-14:00 Closing ceremony