With the presence of world representatives the British Hospital carried out the eighths Neuroendoscopy´s conferences

Organized by the Continuing Medical Education Committee and by the British Hospital Endoscopy Department, a Rioplatense conference on the specialty was carried out where homonyms professionals of Uruguay and Argentina institutions took part. It was the third academic conference sponsored by the British Hospital in Montevideo along with the British Hospital in Buenos Aires, reminded the Director of the Continuing Medical Education Department, Jorge Stanham. On previous occasions the convocation took place around Cardiology and Surgery specialties. This time, the initiative was focused on Digestive Endoscopy, under the leadership of the Director of the British Hospital of this Department, Daniel Taullard. The Rioplatense Digestive Endoscopy conference had the support of the Uruguayan Digestive Endoscopy Society, the Uruguayan Gastroenterology Society, the Digestive Endoscopists of Buenos Aires and the Gastroenterology Clinic. The activity counted with the presence of renowned academics and Argentinean and national professionals, and it is based on the updating and continuing training policy of its professionals, driven by the British Hospital direction office to ensure the best level of healthcare quality. The professors and physicians who attended to the conference as speakers and commentators were: Antonio Villarroel, Alejandro Dutack, Carlos Gonzalez del Solar, Henry Cohen, Jorge Santandreu, Maria Luisa Musta, Virginia Ortega, Gustavo Veirano, Alberto Sanguinetti, Andrés Taullard Santiago Carbajal, Jorge Vercelli, Daniel Taullard, Nicholas Gonzalez, Luis Praderi, Jorge Pérez Gatto, Carolina Adriana Raggio and Olano, and the Psychologist Alexander Barbieri among others. Dr.Taullard explained that “from the academic point of view” it was a course where news regarding”therapeutic and diagnosis gastroenterology techniques” as well as “a variety of issues within digestive and endoscopy specialty “were addressed. The head of the British Endoscopy Department gave emphasis to the opportunity to "touch the most discussed or even more controversial issues at the moment, such as those that refers to the newest and most modern techniques”. He has also pointed out the fact that each thematic presentation was formulated from a clinical case, which enriched the discussion and the exchange among professional participants. His Argentinean colleague Carlos Gonzalez del Solar added to the academic assessment the importance of the exchange between two “sisters” institutions as the British Hospital in Montevideo and in Buenos Aires. It was "a very important meeting from the academic point of view and a very nice time between two institutions with similar stories through time, each with much hierarchy in their community, with common customs and culture," he summarized.