Workshop Title: Cardiovascular diseases: Risk Assessment, Reduction and Genetic Polymorphism

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Workshop Title: Cardiovascular diseases:  Risk Assessment, Reduction and Genetic Polymorphism

Workshop Title: Cardiovascular diseases:  Risk Assessment, Reduction and Genetic Polymorphism

Location: Hawler Medical University, College of Pharmacy, seminar Hall

Time and date: 10:00 AM, 15.11.2022

Department:Clinical Analysis

The presenters, Assistan Professor Dr. Ava Taher, Assistan Professor Dr. Rafel Abdulrazaq and Assistan Professor Dr. Mohammed Merza. at Hawler Medical University, provided vital information on the Cardiovascular diseases especially Atherosclerosis, Myocardial Infarction and Myocardial Fibrosis.

 Introduction:

Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is a general term for conditions affecting the heart or blood vessels. This workshop explained the association of CVD with fatty deposits inside the arteries (atherosclerosis) with the exact mechanism of pathophysiology of blood clots and associated with damaged to arteries in organs such as the brain, heart, kidneys and eyes.

Workshop Outcome

At the end of workshop all the participants were familiar with the following points:

  1. Increase the awareness on the importance of the prevention
  2. The consciousness on correct lifestyles
  3. Create a custom group and add references to it
  4. management of pathologies correlated to cardiovascular protection, as well as on the new available therapeutic options that exist today.
  5. Speaker Information
  6. Assistant Professor Dr. Ava Taher Physician Pathologist with MBChB at College of Medicine- Mousle University in 1988-1989. MSc in Pathology 1996. PhD in molecular pathology 2011.
  7. Assistant Professor, Physician Pathologist with (M.B.Ch.B.F.I.C.M.PATH). [Followof Iraqi Council for Medical Specialization in Pathology]) Degree Member of the European Society of Pathology (ESP) & European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO).
  8. Assistant Professor Dr. Mohammed Merza, Ph.D. degree in Medical Physiology from Lund University Sweden 2015, MSc. Medical Sciences at Glasgow University-United Kingdom. My post-doctorate at Lund University from 2017 to 2019.