If standing up and speaking in front of an audience is a source of anxiety, the stress is heightened even more when the official language of the conference, meeting or congress is English. On the 22nd and 23rd of October 2012, the Esteve Foundation organized at the Corporació Parc Taulí of Sabadell the fourth edition of the…
2012When speaking in front of an audience, only 15% of what actually reaches the public corresponds to the spoken message. In contrast, more than half the information retained by listeners lies in nonverbal communication. Indeed, the lecturer’s posture, gesture and eye gaze tell a lot more on how he/she feels than mere words. These courses…
2012If standing up and speaking in front of an audience is a source of anxiety, the stress is heightened even more when the official language of the conference, meeting or congress is English. On the 4th and 5th of October 2012, the Esteve Foundation organized at the Fundació Docència i Recerca Mútua Terrassa the third edition of…
2012
During the first meeting, held in 2010, 35 professors who teach courses in public health in Spanish universities agreed that the basic content of courses in this field should be organized into different degree programs. In this second workshop, again held at the Menorca School of Public Health, attendees reviewed the agreements reached at the first meeting…
2012
La Fundación Dr. Antonio Esteve estuvo presente en el encuentro sobre farmacología más importante de Europa, el que organiza la EPHAR (Federation of European Pharmacological Societies) y que durante cuatro días promueve la comunicación científica entre farmacólogos de todo el continente. El sexto European Congress of Pharmacology recaló por primera vez en España y lo hizo del…
2012
The new advances in understanding the molecular and cellular bases of immune response opened a new era in the diagnosis and treatment of immune-mediated diseases. On June 14th, 2012, in Barcelona, the Caprese organization (within their training program Aula Ergos), in collaboration with the Esteve Foundation, organized a workshop on basic principles in immunology: immune-mediated…
2012
What causes a transplanted organ to be rejected? Can rejection be avoided? What is a compatible donor? Is there such a thing as completely compatible organs? These were some of the questions posed at the Science Café on Transplantation, the fourth and final café organized by by the Catalan Society of Immunology in collaboration with…
English remains one of the outstanding issues yet to be resolved among health professionals. Although 90% of biomedical English is Greek or Latin in origin, pronunciation and other aspects such as prepositions or prepositional verbs are the main problem areas for Spanish scientists. For that reason, on June 8-9, 2012, the Esteve Foundation launched the sixth edition…
2012If standing up and speaking in front of an audience is a source of anxiety, the stress is heightened even more when the official language of the conference, meeting or congress is English. On the 18th and 19th of May 2012, the Esteve Foundation organized at the Vall d’Hebron Research Institute (VHIR) the second edition of…
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