Zilber School Celebrates the 55-Year anniversary!

For the 55th time, Petrozavodsk convened anesthesiologists and reanimatologists to discuss topical issues of critical care medicine.

The scientific event known in the professional community as the Zilber School (named after its founder Professor Anatoly Zilber) aims at increasing the level of academic training of anesthesiologists and reanimatologists and prompting the introduction of the latest achievements of critical care medicine that lately has been developing with cosmic speed.

Professor Zilber told about the features of the school: “Each year the seminars focus on education. We acknowledge the importance of science but we believe that education is of vital importance and it should not only teach the intricacies of critical care and respiratory medicine but also develop general culture. This general culture is the forte of our Department of Radiodiagnostics and Respiratory Medicine. Throughout the last 10 years, its employees have also been promoting general culture.”

The seminar features lectures of the leading Russian and foreign specialists, discussions of various projects of the Federation of Anesthesiologists and Reanimatologists, and workshops that are held at the premises of the Republic’s Hospital n.a. V.A. Baranov and the Accreditation and Simulation Center of PetrSU.

The Vice-Rector for Scientific Research Vladimir Siunev congratulated Professor Zilber on the opening of the jubilee seminar: “I thank Anatoly for being the pride of Petrozavodsk State University for so many years, and attracting the world-class experts.”

The Director of the Institute of Medicine Aleksandr Balashov highlighted the uniqueness of the event: “The Zilber School is unique. It is unique as it has been held every year for 55 years. It is unique as it bears the name of its founder and irreplaceable leader. It is unique as it maintains such a large scale and has long become a global event.”

The international recognition of the seminar is evident through the list of foreign lecturers: Dr. David Wilkinson, the President of the World Federation of Societies of Anaesthesiologists (WFSA); Dr. Jannicke Mellin-Olsen, the Secretary of the European Society of Anaesthesiology (ESA), Prof. Philippe Scherpereel, the Chair of the Scientific Committee of the WFSA.

“It has taken a long time until this almost family get-together has been recognized by Soviet and later foreign specialists. Since then they have been arriving in Petrozavodsk for one reason: to see what has been done in this area in this tiny from a metropolis citizen’s perspective town what they have not figured out by themselves,” shared his recollections Victor Maltsev, the Associate Professor of the Department of Radiodiagnostics and Radiotherapy with a course on Critical Care and Respiratory Medicine of PetrSU.

For this event, the Scientific Library of PetrSU and the National Library of Karelia have prepared a topical exhibition.