8th Hellenic Wound Healing Conference
MBC President, Prof. Bishara Atiyeh, was invited to participate in the 8th Hellenic Wound Healing Conference organized on Sept 12-13, 2019 in Athens by Prof. Dimosthenis Tsoutsos and Prof. Ourania Castana of the Hellenic Society of Wound Healing and Chronic Ulcers. Other invited guests were Prof. Luc Teot and Prof. Sylvie Meaume from France and Prof. Franco Bassetto from Italy.
Prof. Atiyeh made a presentation entitled “ You can be prepared for disaster: Burns Fires and other catastrophes” during a session dedicated to burns and Fire Disasters. The conference was the occasion for the Greek society to confirm its commitment to MBC by adopting the “Annals of Burns and Fire Disasters” as its official publication. Several presentations made during this conference will be submitted to the journal for publication.
Picture 1. Bishara Atiyeh and Ourania Castana.
Picture 2. from left: Panagis Georgios, Dimosthenis Tsoutsos, Jenny Kyriopoulos, Bishara Atiyeh, Ourania Castana and Georgia Koulermou.
By invitation from Prof. Juan Pedro Barret, EBA President, and Prof. Jyrki Vuola, 18th EBA Congress President, a special MBC session was organized in Helsinki during the 18th EBA congress under the heading of “Bridging the Gap”.
The session was held in the main plenary conference hall and was opened by Prof. Bishara Atiyeh, MBC President, who made a 20 minutes presentation about the “Unmet Needs of Burn Care in LMICs”. He was followed by Prof. Barret by a presentation about “The Burn of Burns: A Moral Imperative”. Other speakers in the session were Professors Clemens Schiestl from Switzerland, Lior Rosenberg from Israel, I. Minic from Italy, Dan Enescu from Romania, and Albin Stritar from Slovenia.
MBC participation in this congress was the occasion to renew ties bwtween our 2 organizations and to discuss future plans for collaboration.
B. Atiyeh with JP Barret.
From left: B. Atiyeh, S. Wolf (editor-in-chief Burns) and his wife, JP Barret, J. Latrjet, L Juhasz.
