The success of the previous ENMF Conferences attributable to the fertile collaboration of distinguished scientists, spurred us to take the initiative of organizing the 4th ENMF Multi-Disciplinary Medical Conference with International Participation on 17-19/05/2024 at the Nikolaos Germanos Conference Center in the HELEXPO-International Fair of Thessaloniki.
The subtitle ("Medico-Surgical Innovations, Imaging Breakthroughs and Artificial Intelligence") and the original topics of the Conference, organized by the Center for Research and Innovation in Solid Organ Transplantation of the Aristotelian University of Thessaloniki, the Neurosurgery Institute of the University of Ioannina and the Department of Nuclear Medicine of Hippocration General Hospital of Thessaloniki, under the auspices of many state agencies and scientific associations, provide the possibility of in-depth insight and valid navigation in innovatory and pioneering applications, thus contributing to the fruitful interaction and efficient convergence of medical skills, interdisciplinary approaches and technological progress.
Having been established by all of you as a Medico-Social Forum, the ENMF Conference places particular emphasis on the development of strategic initiatives for the substantial exploitation of innovations and their applied incorporation into the daily patient care, the rapid discovery and delivery of health-promoting tools designed in a way oriented to the end user, the rational prevention to avoid or mitigate problems, the strengthening of social cohesion, the promotion of well-being and the improvement of citizens’ experience.
In addition, the Conference has an orientation to train younger colleagues based on the state-of-the-art international standards, with applications of augmented and virtual reality, and to familiarize all health workers with both the relevant basic sciences and the approaches to the mysteries of life which accent the transcendent dimension of human person and explain her/his uniqueness, so that together with the thoroughly dealt sequences of causes, effects and epiphenomena, a truly personalized medicine becomes achievable, optimally solving problems and contributing to true health experienced as a thanksgiving and active collaboration in the present space and time.
"Discovery is an incidental event that meets a prepared mind" according to the saying of Albert Imre Szent-Gyorgyi (1893-1986), Nobel Laureate in Medicine. We hope that the Conference will constitute a substantial contribution: (a) to the formation of a culture of fertile receptivity to the ever-emerging possibilities without neglecting the existential dimension of health and (b) to a creative and dedicated effort in the dynamically evolving mosaic of interweaving innovations with everyone’s accessibility to specialized preventive care and topnotch treatment of health problems.