Dear colleagues!
We are pleased to announce the holding of the joint Congress "Actual Problems of Neurology", which will be held as part of the XXVII International Scientific and Practical Conference "Actual Problems of Clinical, Experimental Neurology, Neurosurgery, Neurophysiology".
Event organizers:
- Association of Neurologists of the Republic of Kazakhstan
- Department of Nervous Diseases of KazNMU named after S.D. Asfendiyarov
- World Stroke Organization (WSO)
- National Coordination Center for Emergency Medicine of the Ministry of Health of the Republic of Kazakhstan
Dates: May 29-30, 2026 Venue: Almaty (Republic of Kazakhstan), Rixos Almaty Hotel (ave. Sakena Seifullina, 506/99)
Format: mixed (face-to-face and online)
The Congress is a major educational, scientific and practical platform focused on professional development of neurologists, doctors of related specialties, researchers and teachers, with an emphasis on the implementation of modern international recommendations and clinical approaches in everyday practice.
Key educational directions of the Congress:
- stroke: questions and answers
- innovations in the diagnosis and treatment of demyelinating diseases of the nervous system;
- parkinsonism and other extrapyramidal disorders;
- vascular and degenerative dementias;
- a modern view of the problem of pain;
- epilepsy;
- neurorehabilitation;
- neuroinfections;
- current issues of neuropsychiatry;
- hereditary and neuromuscular diseases;
- brain and spinal cord injuries and their long-term consequences;
- dizziness and balance disorders.
The Congress is particularly important for the participation of leading international experts from the World Stroke Organization (WSO), which provides a high level of scientific content and a practice-oriented discussion of the problems of vascular pathology of the brain.
Among the invited speakers of the WSO:
Dr. Jeyaraj Durai Pandian - President of WSO, Professor of Neurology, Director of Christian Medical College, Punjab, India;
Prof. Craig Anderson - Director of Global Brain Health at the George Institute (Australia), Professor of Neurology and Epidemiology at the University of New South Wales;
Prof. Valeria Caso - WSO Treasurer, Department of Neurology and Stroke, Saronno-ASST Valle Olona Hospital, Italy;
Prof. Gustavo Saposnik is Vice President of the WSO, Director of the Stroke Outcomes and Decision Research Unit, University of Toronto, Canada.
Additional features:
Workshops focused on practical skills are planned to be held within the framework of the Congress.;
Participant certificates will be issued only with face-to-face participation.;
Speakers are registered until March 1, 2026.
We are confident that the Congress will become a significant educational event and an effective platform for professional exchange of experience, discussion of complex clinical cases and the formation of an interdisciplinary dialogue.
We look forward to your participation!
With respect,
Organizing Committee of the Congress
1. Dr Jeyaraj Durai Pandian MD DM FRACP FRCP FESO FWSO FIAN FANMS
Professor of Neurology and Principal (Dean) President, World Stroke Organization
Christian Medical College, Ludhiana, Punjab, India 141008
Indian Council of Medical Research Collaborating Center of Excellence for
Biomedical Research in Stroke WHO Collaborating Center for Stroke
Mobile: +91-9915784750; jeyarajpandian@hotmail.com, jeyaraj.pandian@cmcludhiana.in
2. Prof.Nurguzhaev E.S., Professor of the Department of Nervous Diseases of KazNMU named after S.D.Asfendiyarov, President of the NGO "Association of Neurologists" of the Republic of Kazakhstan, +77013555112, erkinnurgujaev@mail.ru
3. Turuspekova S.T., Head of the Department of Nervous Diseases of KazNMU named after S.D.Asfendiyarov, Chief freelance neurologist of the Ministry of Health of the Republic of Kazakhstan, +77056667755, doctorsaule100@gmail.com
4. Adilbekov E.B., Chairman of the Board of NCCEM of the Ministry of Health of the Republic of Kazakhstan,+77013125511
