On May 17, 2024 the XVIII International Scientific and Practical Conference of Young Medical Scientists “SOVA-2024” was held on the basis of FGBOU VO Ivanovo State Medical University of the Ministry of Health of Russia. The co-organizers of the conference, by tradition, were FGBOU VO Burdenko VSMU of the Ministry of Health of Russia, FGBOU VO Tver State Medical University of the Ministry of Health of Russia, FGBOU VO KSMU of the Ministry of Health of Russia, KSMU – a branch of FGBOU DPO RMANPO of the Ministry of Health of Russia. Representatives of leading higher medical schools from Tver, Kursk, Voronezh, Ivanovo, Volgograd, Chelyabinsk, Yekaterinburg, Donetsk, Simferopol, Kirov, Surgut, Semey (Kazakhstan) met to exchange experience and scientific knowledge. The program of the conference included a plenary session, 8 breakout sessions, where more than 100 reports devoted to topical issues within the scientific directions of modern research were considered. Opening the conference, with the welcoming speech from KSMU the vice-rector on scientific work and innovative development professor Vyacheslav Alexandrovich Lipatov, who noted fruitful cooperation and development of scientific relations between universities for many years, made a speech.
SMU KSMU and all participants of the conference thank for the organization and support of the Rector of IvSMU, Dr.M.Sc., Associate Professor Inna Viktorovna Ivanova and the head of the scientific society of students and young scientists of IvSMU, Dr.M.Sc., Associate Professor Maria Vladimirovna Zhaburina, as well as the administration of our university for the opportunity to participate in this event. The next host will be Kazan.