Activity has not been the highest as of late, but now I am back (perhaps anyway). Today I attended the Hedenstierna symposium in Uppsala on the actual 77th birthday of Göran Hedenstierna himself. He attended, as he always does, and he was suitably embarrassed when the whole meeting sang happy birthday to him.
The good thing with having a famous scientist to name your seminar after is that you can attract real top-names from around the world. This means there are ample opportunities to expand your network both in your field and in associated fields. There were the brilliant Göran Stemme, group leader from KTH who developed the microneedles me and his former student Niclas Roxhed wrote about some years ago. Then Michell Chew chewed on about the very current area of using point-of-care ultrasound in intensive care, and Fernando Sipmann simpered (not really) on monitoring the respiration. After lunch, Declan Bates declared a sermon on mathematical modelling that none of us really understood, but it was very impressive. Finally, Marlies Ostermann orated about the actually important organs, the kidneys. She had a hard time convincing the mostly respiratory scientists in the audience that kidneys are quite simple and just the most fun to be had in physiology.
It wasn't really the final talk, there were Johanna Hästbacka from Helsinki who talked on monitoring inflammation, and Emory Brown from America on neuromonitoring, but I had to pick up my dog from daycare and missed out.
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