12th INTERNATIONAL BALTIC 
SPORTS MEDICINE CONGRESS

This Congress is the largest multidisciplinary Sports medicine forum in the Baltics, which provide excellent lectures from international speakers:

• Prof. Fabio Pigozzi, Italy, FIMS “Sports Medicine:A Century of Progress, the highs and lows”
• Prof. Yannis Pitsiladis, Greece, United Kingdom, Hong Kong “Innovations in Sports Medicine”
• Prof. Agnes Magi, Estonia “Preparticipation evaluation of athletes”
• Prof. Andrea Podolski, Austria “Cardiopulmonary exercise testing for differential diagnosis of exertional dyspnea”
• Prof. Noiba Rakhimova, Uzbekistan “Diagnostic markers of overtraining in sports”
• MD PhD Sandra Rozenstoka, Latvia “Longevity: physical activity, pharmacology, and quality of life”
• Prof. Ruediger Reer, Germany “Towards a healtier world: The Global Alliance for Physical Activity Promotion”
• Dr Pria Krishnasamy, United Kingdom “Physical Activity for Children and Young People & Moving Medicine”
• Prof. Pierre Abraham, France “Underdiagnosis of vascular diseases in physical active patients: Does it result from atypical presentation of typical diseases or from atypical diseases of typical presentation?”
• Prof. Kirill Micallef-Stafrace, Malta “Game On: The Intersection of eSports and Sports Medicine”
• Prof. Vladimir Ivancev, Croatia “Sports medicine guidelines – Croatian Sports Medicine Society”
• Prof Davor Plavec, Croatia “New Croatian bylaw for athletes preparticipation examinations”
• Prof. Anca Mirela Ionescu, Romania “An athletes weight correction”
• MD, PhD Katarzyna Szmigielsk, Poland “Physical activityy in obesity”
• Prof. Eve Unt, Estonia “Relative energy deficiency in sport (REDs)”
• Prof. Pedro Manenelles, Spain “The harmful health effects of nutritional supplements contaminated with prohibited substances”
• Dr. Liene Kozlovska, Latvia, EC “Permitted sports pharmacology and doping”
• Prof. Sergei Iljukov, Finland “Performance Profiling for Anti-Doping needs and Beyond”
• Prof. Bjorn Alkner, Sweden “Resistance exercise in children and adults - preliminary data from the KidREx study”
• Joseph Pace, Malta “Movement Re-Patterning after Injury or Surgery.  How does it work?”

This is a great opportunity to be united in a professional celebration with six plenary sessions, 10 scientific and practical sessions, a medical exhibition and professional networking.

As part of this progress, the Latvian Association of Sports Medicine has been honored to organize the first-ever meeting of national delegates of the Union of European Medical Specialties (UEMS) Sports Medicine Group. This historic gathering will take place within the framework of the congress, bringing together at least two leading sports medicine representatives from each EU country.

Join Us in Riga!

Sincerely,
Dr. Med. Sandra Rozenštoka
President of the Latvian Sports Medicine Association
President of the Congress Organizing Committee
Organizer of the First UEMS Sports Medicine Group Meeting