The aim of this part of a special pre-congress program to take place on Thursday – July 1, is to allow enough time for discussion of the most pressing topics of contemporary medicine and health care in Europe and beyond.

Each Workshop will start at 9:00 and will last till about 13:00 (or shorter according to the interest of the participants).

The location – either Faculty of Medicine CU, Sasinkova 2 – 4, or Slovak Medical University (SZU), Limbová 12 – 14, where the particular Workshop or Symposium is held, is given in the program below.

The programs given here may still be enriched by a few additional “last minute” contributions. Final programs of the Workshops, if different from those given here, will be available at the Congress Registration Desk.

Overall Time Schedule for a Workshop

09:00-10:30 Workshop
10:30-11:00 Break
11:00-13:00 Workshop

Workshops at Faculty of Medicine CU
(Lekárska fakulta UK), Sasinkova 2 – 4

Moderators: J. Murín, J. Bulas

• Metabolic Syndrome – The Global Threat
  J. Murín, J. Bulas (Bratislava, Slovak Republic)


• Characterization of Primary Health Care Problems of Kaunas Population
  R. Ziuraitiene, E. Stalioraite, D. Pangonyte, J. Palubinskiene, D. Kazlauskaite (Kaunas; Lithuania)


• Category and Duration of Diseases in Patients’ Assessments of Primary Health Care Service
  D. Kazlauskaite, D. Pangonyte, J. Palubinskiene, R. Ziuraitiene, Z. Stanioniene, E. Stankeviciene (Kaunas; Lithuania)


• Doctors, Alcoholism, and Alcoholic Doctors
  Palubinskiene, M. Palubinskas (Kaunas; Lithuania)


• Health Improvement Service in the Kiev Catholic Church
  V. Martyn, V. Zinko, M. Zhyla, M. Synenka (Lviv; Ukraine)

W 2  Ethical Aspects of Smoking / German

Moderator: E. Prat de la Riba, M. Babál

• Tabakrauchen aus kulturethischer Sicht
  E. Prat de la Riba (Vienna, Austria)

• Evidence of Disease Caused by Smoking Cigarettes
  F. Kummer (Vienna, Austria)

W 3  Persistent Vegetative State / French

Moderator: F. Blin

• Persistent Vegetative State – Current Medical and Ethical Aspects
  F. Blin (Paris, France)


• Foregoing life sustaining treatments
  S. Grosbuis (Paris, France)

• Palliative care
  E. Mathieu-Riedel (Paris, France)

Moderators: R. Pegoraro, P.-Kr. Hodzic

• Italian Law on Assisted Procreation
  R. Pegoraro (Padova, Italy)

• Legal Aspects of Human Assisted Reproduction: Lithuanian Case
  J. Juskevicius (Vilnius; Lithuania)

• Medical, Legal and Moral Aspects of Sex Reassignment in Case of Transsexualism: Lithuania case
  A. Narbekovas (Vilnius, Lithuania) 

• Fear and Hormonal Orchestration in Childbirth – the Christian Solution
  P.-Kr. Hodzic (Zagreb, Croatia)

Moderators: M. Čuk, A. Širinskiene

• Rethinking Sexual Education
  M. Čuk, I. Celic, Ž. Šubaric (Zagreb; Croatia)


• HIV Prevention through „Safer Sex“: The Effectiveness and Real Results
  A. Širinskiene (Kaunas, Lithuania)

• The Role of Catholic Physicians in AIDS Pandemia
  R. C. Bullecer (Cebu City, Philippines)

W6  Prirodzená regulácia počatia (Natural Family Planning) / Slovensky/Česky

Moderators: K. Šipr, K. Glasová

• Dimenzie zodpovedného rodičovstva (Dimensions of Responsible Parenthood)
  R. Balak (Trnava, Slovenská republika)

• Billingsova metóda na Slovensku (The Billing’s Method in Slovakia)
  Z. Lauková, P. Lauko  (Poprad, Slovenská republika)

• Ako funguje prirodzená regulácia počatia v porovnaní s inými metódami (How does Natural Family Planning Perform in Comparison to Other Methods)
  K. Šipr, H. Šiprová (Brno, Česká republika)

• Ľudský rod je ohrozený už od počatia (The Human Race in Threatened from the Conception)
  P. Kotouček, M. Kotoučková (Bratislava, Slovenská republika)

• Od potratu k antikoncepcii – „Anti-life mentalita“
  J. M. Košč (Bratislava, Slovenská republika)

W 7  Stemm Cell Research and Human Cloning / English

Moderators: L. Kenner, C. Hutter

• Introduction – Adult and Embryonic Human Stem Cells
  L. Kenner (Vienna, Austria)

• Human Stemm Cell Research
  M.-L. Labat (Maisons – Alfort, France)

• Human Cloning – View from the Lab
  C. Hutter (Vienna, Austria)

• Therapeutic and Reproductive Cloning: Much Objectionable Procedures
  W. Eijk (Groningen, The Netherlands)

W8 Embryológia [Embryology] / Slovensky/Česky/English

Moderators: J. Foltinová, V. Pospíšilová

• Embryology, Physics and Environment
  J. Foltinová, V. Foltin, M. Morvová  (Bratislava, Slovenská republika)

• Knowledge of Embryology as a Key for Education in Bioethics
  J. Kočová, V. Pospíšilová, Z. Tonar, J. Slípka (Plzeň, Česká republika; Bratislava, Slovenská republika)

• Staging of Human Embryos and Fetuses Related to Development of Urinary System
  J. Kočová, Z. Tonar, V. Pospíšilová (Plzeň, Česká republika; Bratislava, Slovenská republika)

Note. Due to the request of participants W8 will take place after W7 (at the same hall or ‘next-door’).

W9  Teaching of Medical Ethics / English

Moderator: M. Mojzešová

• How to Teach Medical Ethics?
  Ž. Znidarčič (Zagreb, Croatia)

• Teaching of Medical Ethics at the Faculty of Medicine of the Comenius University in Bratislava
  M. Mojzešová, V. Ozorovský (Bratislava, Slovak Republic)

• Teaching of Medical Ethics in Postgraduate Education Settings
  J. Glasa (Bratislava, Slovak Republic)

• Teaching of Ethics to Helping Professions
  E. Grey (Bratislava – Trnava, Slovak Republic)


• Medical Ethics can geet Support from Non-academic Sources
  J. Labus, M. Varga (Nový Smokovec, Košice, Slovenská republika)