Interuniversity Scientific and Practical Conference on Psychosomatic Medicine in Russia: Advances and Prospects

Abstract

The paper gives information on the Interuniversity Scientific and Practical Conference on Psychosomatic Medicine in Russia: Advances and prospects, held in Moscow on March 26, 2015, which was a continuation of a series of the similar measures arranged by the Department of Psychiatry, Psychotherapy, and Psychosomatic Pathology, Faculty of Advanced Training Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia. The conference was focused on a wide range of specialists (psychiatrists, narcologists, psychotherapists, cardiologists, gastroenterologists, therapists, family doctors, plastic surgeons, cosmetologists, etc.), its participants were more than 180 practitioners, and researchers. The program included the discussion of diverse aspects of a relationship between mental and somatic diseases in different fields of medicine.