Summer Meeting/ 7th June 2009
Newport/ Wales
The Friars/ Postgraduate Centre
Royal Gwent Hospital
The Society has held its summer meeting for 2009 on 7th June in South Wales/UK.
It was a gathering in Newport, the third large city in Wales. At the beginning of the meeting Dr. Mahdi Ismail thanked the members for their efforts to participate in the society’s activities. He then mentioned that the programme for the meeting will include 4 lectures and a special session which will follow the lectures to discuss the future activities of the society.
Mr. Asal Azzidien/ General Surgeon started the scientific programme with his lecture about surgical problems in children. He discussed few surgical emergencies in children based on his vast experience in surgery. He mentioned particularly the subject of testicular pain in children and his policy of open and see to rule out and to manage testicular torsion which could happen at any age in children and young adults. He presented slides from his theatre work in Mosul /Iraq when he managed to repair a major cut of a penis of a child after a circumcision operation went wrong suddenly. Asal mentioned as well that he recently trained about 30 junior doctors from Iraq the basic skills in surgery. The training course was in Istanbul in Turkey with a help from the Royal College of Surgeons/UK.
The second speaker was Dr. Sudad Jawad/ Psychiatrist in Wales. He spoke about a condition of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and the best technique for diagnosis and management. He mentioned that ADHD could be more common in boys than girls and it can present itself as inattention with or without hyperactivity with a persistent pattern of impulsiveness.
The management of the ADHD patients may include medications, lifestyle modifications and counselling.
The third speaker in the meeting was Dr. Amer Jafar/ Physician, who presented a summary of the recent medical research activity in Iraq. This review was based on his effort to communicate with our colleagues in Iraq and to view few references related to the health and medical research in homeland.
The last speaker was Mr. Saad Al-fattal/ orthopaedic surgeon with interest in history of Iraq. He managed personally to collect hundreds of photos about old Iraq and he is keen to explain the history behind each of his photos. The title for his presentation in the meeting on 7th June was ‘Aerial views of old Iraq’.
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