Other activities | Dr. Antonio Esteve's Fundation

From the desk to the raised platform: written and oral presentations in biomedicine (2007)

Friday September 28th, 2007 Supervisor

How scientific results should be communicated orally and in writing. That was the double objective of the freely chosen subject imparted during the last two weeks of September 2007 at the Faculty of Health and Life Sciences of the Pompeu Fabra University, in collaboration with the Esteve Foundation. The originality of this teaching proposal, unprecedented in…

Special collaboration: 10th LatinCLEN Congress. The Clinical Epidemiology and its applications (2007)

Saturday June 16th, 2007 Supervisor

The Esteve Foundation contributed to this congress held in Barcelona, organized by the LatinCLEN networks (focusing on clinical epidemiology) and the Iberoamerican Cochrane (focusing of systematic reviews). The meeting was held on 13-17 June 2007 at the Casa Convalescència of Barcelona’s Hospital de la Santa Creu i de Sant Pau.

Booklet presentation of ‘Learning and teaching in medicine’ (2007)

Tuesday January 30th, 2007 Supervisor

A series or articles published in the British Medical Journal on how to teach and learn medicine. This is the content of the latest Esteve Foundation Booklet, presented on 30 January 2007 at El Palauet of Barcelona and introduced by Dr. Joan Rodés, general manager of the Hospital Clínic de Barcelona, and by Dr. Peter Cantillon, from…

Collaboration witth the Cochrane Center: Current challenges of research in perioperative vascular medicine (2006)

Friday November 3rd, 2006 Supervisor

Dr. PJ Devereaux, from McMaster University (Ontario, Canada), teached a lecture about perioperative vascular medicine in patients undergoing noncardiac surgery, organized by The Cochrane Collaboration with the participation of the Esteve Foundation. The meeting was held Friday 3rd November in Agencia Pedro Laín Entralgo.

Summer course ‘Bioethics today: unresolved questions’ with the University of Barcelona (2006)

Friday July 14th, 2006 Supervisor

Frequently, a technological advance in science leads to new ethical, moral and political challenges for society. Its implementation may lead to important cultural changes, not always in agreement with the established order and requiring a response by Law. Once the new policies have been enforced, however, new ethical problems arise which require new laws, always within…

Special collaboration: 1st one-day meeting on Drug R&D (2006)

Tuesday June 6th, 2006 Supervisor

The Esteve Foundation attended the first one-day meeting on Drug R&D Training held in Spain to present its training offering, including initiation seminars on how Clinical Research Ethics Committees operate, or more recent ones on how to give oral presentations in biomedicine. The meeting was held on 6 June 2006 in Santiago de Compostela, organized…

Special Collaboration: IV Meeting of Ethics Committees for the Research in Spanish Universities (2005)

Friday November 18th, 2005 Supervisor

The yearly meeting of the Ethics Committees of the Spanish universities was held in November 2005. This edition, held at the Faculty of Medicine of the Autonomous University of Madrid, helped consolidate these meetings (four already: Sitges 2002, Murcia 2003, Granada 2004 and Madrid 2005). Again, the Esteve Foundation contributed to this initiative, ultimately intended…

Special collaboration: X Spanish Conference of Biometry (2005)

Friday May 27th, 2005 Supervisor

Sorry, this entry is only available in European Spanish and Catalan. For the sake of viewer convenience, the content is shown below in this site default language. You may click one of the links to switch the site language to another available language. Cada dos años, la Sociedad Española de Biometría organiza un congreso en el que…

Special collaboration: III Meeting of Ethics Committees in University Research (2004)

Friday December 3rd, 2004 Supervisor

Subsequent to the two former editions held in Sitges and Murcia in 2002 and 2003, respectively, a third meeting of University Ethics Committees was held in Granada on December 2-3, 2004. In addition to reinforcing this kind of meetings, the aim was to disclose a number of scopes of action of these committees, such as…

Presentation of the document on ‘Women and science’ (2004)

Thursday November 18th, 2004 Supervisor

Even though women represent 59% of all bachelors degrees, they only account for 12.8% of the professors of Spanish universities; institutions like the Royal Academy of Jurisprudence and Legislation, or the Catalan Foundation for Research, have no women in their staffs; there is not one single female professor of Pediatrics or Gynecology and Obstetrics in…