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Welcome to the 19th SNI and SNI Digital Baghdad Neurosurgery online meeting, held October 23, 2022. The introduction will be given by the meeting originator and coordinator, Samir Haaz, from the
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universities of Baghdad and Cincinnati
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The speaker will discuss, In the midst of research, my way to neurosurgery. The speaker is
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Al Kowathar M. Abdul-Sada, medical student, Azerbaijan Medical University, Baghdad, Iraq, and Baku, Azerbaijan. The lecture and discussion is 17 minutes.
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So, which is before the last presentation from a co-author, a co-author are you there?
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Yeah, yeah. Hello, everyone. Hello, Professor Secretary and colleagues. Yeah, hello. So, a co-author, she's originally from Iraq. She's now doing her medical college and the fifth year in
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Azerbaijan and she will share her experience. It's a little different experience and, yeah, the stage is yours,
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co-author. Hello, everyone. I am a co-author, Abhisadeh, a fifth year medical student, Iraqi based at Azerbaijan Medical University. So, before going to the midst of neurosurgery, I'm going
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to talk a little bit about my journey. So, as I always say, the first decided not to move the cover. This is the picture of my university.
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It's not that common.
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So after finishing high school in Iraq, I was 17 years old and I had to move to Azerbaijan to start my med school. And as you see, it's a very modern country. They have a European lifestyle, but
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they are a former Soviet Union country. And we have borders with Russia and Armenia.
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So the beginning was very fine until the second year when COVID-19 started and the quarantine was very restricted. And so it was fine too there. So we had online lessons, but then the war started.
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We had war with Armenia and the wife I was cut. So I can't contact my family. I can't see them. I can't go outside until a year and a half. Then the girls wasn't there and we couldn't cook. It
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was a very hard situation
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with the questions how to co-open in such case. And I'm sharing this because
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I want anyone who had the same situation to know that he's not alone. So a metaphor I use that when I went to attend the operations, neurosurgical operations, so I was comparing the neurosurgical
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anatomy with when the patient is awakening, the post-op. And when I realized that my hands were inside a human brain.
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The answer to how to cope is to stay busy. I was trying to read books to beg it and also to study some of the vascular anatomy. I was wishing to, I was striving to find a mentor because the other
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lessons were cut also. And it was my dream to find a good mentor. So after the war, after the year and a half, I went back to Iraq and they was looking online. And here the changes started. And
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it's not like
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a movie. It's very old change. I saw this post on Instagram. It all started from a phone. So I contacted Dr. Hose. I told him about my story and he allowed me to attend each procedure that they
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do on the team. So here's the start I met him and I started to attend the
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neurosurgical operations. And I had very nice friends from the mentorship. It was the previous mentorship last year.
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And this one is really interesting because the patient was my father. He had a cervical life bomber and Dr. Haidar style have from the team operated on them. And this is Dr. Ofa, Dr. Mutana and
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also Dr. Hederseil and Dr. how might I mean where my mentors there.
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So the centers that I had my practice were the governments on the private hospitals in Europe.
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I was very excited to start writing medical researchers, but I wasn't familiar to the system there. So I started with paperwork, like organizing the students' attendings and also the international
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collaboration papers.
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This was the task that we had to do by Dr. Ofa to do 50-meter futures so that we can do our first interpretive future. And it's a really a point of change in every student's life.
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Then we started to go to the scientific-wise progress I prepared two presentations and gave them the previous mentorship.
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The interesting things that in these two months I attended more than 17 years of surgery found in the vascular procedures and I made this little book which was signed by Dr. Haas.
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And they were equal for the vascular and vascular surgeries and the neurovascular surgeries were equal also for the oncology and vascular
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Here's the era of Iraq ended and I have discussions, my favourite, from a movie Let Everything Happen To Beauty Actor Not Feeling This Final.
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So, I went back to Iraq. It was my fourth year medical. I went back to Azerbaijan, it was my fourth year medical school, and I kept my own connection with Dr. Hose. And we started the Dandenua
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Surgical Club in Iraq to establish and I was a founding member and membership officer
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I, unfortunately, I couldn't practice at the panera meeting that was held in Beirut because I was here, I couldn't travel. But I was looking for conferences here and I participated at the student
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scientific society conference, which was held in our university
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And I kept my practice in neurosurgery. I was also attending in the government's own private hospitals
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Then I didn't stop there. I was looking for a second mentor, so I contacted is my second mentor here. He's a brilliant neurosurgeon. He has a practice in Germany and
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also on Turkey. He finished his specialty in Turkey. So the first day I want to meet him after mentoring him, I saw this patient. She was three years old and I asked about her. He said that it's
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a one year follow up
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And
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he said that she had picked up a kishwaraoma and it's a very rare case. So I decided to make a research about it. And I took her data. I took her PR plus amorized. I took her into crying analysis
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and it was also an Azerbaijan language. I translated them into English and started to look in their teacher
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So I made a case report on the literature review. And this is the MRI, the preoperative MRI, and it shows the cellular and the syndic suppressory compressing the
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third ventricle, H1oma. And
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post-operatively, it's a perfect tumorctomy. So
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I made a teacher review and I found that they reported H1oma's are
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34 cases, but interestingly, it was all for adults. And this was the first case to be reported in pediatrics.
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Actually, this case is published in SI, and this is post-operatively and swanning for law
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So Dr. Roff is asking her about pomashis so she said two arms, three arms, three arms. I forget to explain about the case. So, the schwannomans are crayon nerve-shaped tumors. They arise from
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the schwannosals that are covering the exons of brian nerves And the interesting thing about this case that wasn't related to any crayon nerve, it was ectopic. So, I made the case report about the
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discussion exactly about the theories that these schwannomans can be arranged for.
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And the reviewers' comments were very nice. They said that about Dr. Rov's work towards eccentric section, especially in the perspective of a highly vascular and rubbery tumor tissue. And it was a
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valuable contribution to the teacher. And the third comment was about asking about the histopathology pictures, which I ordered also. This is
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the second research I actually like these researches the most because I wrote them from zero, and they were my first. So this one is about the functional anatomy of the four amino fushka revisited.
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I made a timeline about the myelostones and related events about the development of the 400 fushka discovery, revising the original work written by Mushka, who worked for Mushka the
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German anatomist
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and it was also accepted by the SI, but they also wanted the additional picture from the original work. And the director has made this very comment that he thought it's a trend that everything I
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write is accepted unless I add a figure. And this is actually the figure I added from the original work. And back on track, I kept on attending the Doctor of surgeries, my second letter. And this
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one was about to be able to give you a
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blastoma.
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Now getting the limits of research, these are the two papers that are published now, and these one are accepted, and the file is about, this file is about all the submitted papers. So now, after
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a year of being in this mentorship
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And a new concept in this mentorship was the sub mentorship that the new students who are now on to research may teach another students. So I have to be a leader for five teams And these are ongoing
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research is now. For example, yesterday we had this zoom with Dr. Lewis and he was reviewing our writing like a review series for all our works.
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And this is a routine Google search that we make before and after the mentorship
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It's very interesting that it was zero results and now we have like eight results.
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This is about repeating the loop like the war started again with Russia and it affected us between Russia and Ukraine and also the monkey pucks and the quarantine again,
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but we are going on.
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So the take-home messages are never even an opportunity, I can add to this that look for opportunity, don't just wait for it because I was trapped here, I was between four walls exactly and I was
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trying, I was striving to find a mentor and finding a good mentor is a really gift and adaptation is necessary everywhere, I didn't finish my or I didn't type my medical school at Iraq, but when I
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went back last year I tried to adapt everything and mindset is
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flexible wherever you are, wherever you want to be and the journey is the arrival is just boring. Maybe someone will see this very difficult and I won't be able to finish any of this, but it's
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really interesting. And my favorite quote from Dr. Hood is that, honesty and good intentions are the answer to hope because I had good intentions and I really wanna learn, I found him, thanks all.
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Yeah, so then you're a surgical research process is undeveloped here, but psychiatrists and oncology are well developed.
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Thank you. Thank you, Alcoza. I really congratulate you and I feel that you have a really resident level. You are not a medical student, especially with that Kafka and
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yeah, thank you I
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