On Friday 27^th September, participants at the conference are invited to join the half-day workshop with international guests and to watch a film related to the workshop topic:

WORKSHOP

Challenges of Medical and Medico-legal Assistance Related to Gender-based Wiolence

Workshop Organizers

University of Medicine and Pharmacy “Iuliu Hatieganu” Cluj Napoca

WHO Country Office in Romania

Association for Victims of Sexual Crimes Romania

Workshop Venue

University of Medicine and Pharmacy “Iuliu Hatieganu” Cluj Napoca

Pasteur Street, no. 6, Preda Amphitheatre

Workshop Objectives

Each victim of gender-based violence represents an emergency, a cry for help that medical practitioners should hear and respond to with maximum professionalism. In this workshop, together with our guests, we take a look at how forensic doctors and doctors of other specialties interact with victims of various forms of violence and sexual abuse in Poland and Romania.

Forensic doctors are among the first-line professionals called to manage a major social problem represented by gender-based violence, which takes on the most diverse forms of manifestation and generates many victims, especially among women. The phenomenon is increasing, being favoured in recent years by crisis situations such as the pandemic, and more recently by the war near Romania's and Poland’s borders, which was accompanied by episodes of uncontrolled migration. Another signal indicating sexual abuses, albeit indirect, is the high rate of pregnancies and births in teenage girls, Romania being the top EU country reporting this phenomenon, as well as record numbers of trafficking of people. From the perspective of the statistical numbers, the response of medical practitioners and forensic doctors becomes critical and therefore the question arises to what extent they are prepared to face the challenges that gender-based violence represents. All the more so as.

We will analyse the opportunity of introducing in the medical students' university curriculum a teaching module on Gender-based Violence, so that the future medical practitioners will be well prepared to face these complex problems. We will also discuss how current practices can be adapted to the new legislative requirements at the national level, as well as to international good practice guidelines. The WHO Country Office in Romania is launching the invitation to strengthen the Romanian national health system’s response to violence against women and girls that experience sexual and other forms of violence, including trafficking for sexual exploitation. 

Guest Speakers

Zbigniew Izdebski – Professor of Sexology, University of Warsaw and the University of Zielona Góra, Warsaw, Poland

Melanie Hyde   – Technical Officer Gender, Equity and Human Rights, WHO EURO

Costel Siserman – Associate Professor Legal Medicine, University of Medicine and Pharmacy “Iuliu Hatieganu” Cluj Napoca, Director of the Institute of Legal Medicine in Cluj Napoca, Romania

Daniela Mironescu – MD Legal Medicine, University of Medicine and Pharmacy “Iuliu Hatieganu” Cluj Napoca, Romania

Ligia Barbarii   – MD Legal Medicine, National Institute of Legal Medicine “Mina Minovici” Bucharest, Romania, Head of the Laboratory of Forensic Genetics, co-founder Association for V.I.S.

Mihaela Chiper – Journalist, President of the Association for Victims of Sexual Crimes Romania (Association for V.I.S.)

Workshop Agenda – Friday 27 September, 9:00 – 13:00

8:30 – 9:00                       Welcome of participants

9:00 – 9:30                       Opening Remarks by Workshop Organisers

9:30 – 11:00                     SESSION 1: Guest speaker presentations

11:00 – 11:15       Coffee break

11:15 – 12:30      SESSION 2: Future Directions and Actions: Free discussion on how to integrate a GBV module into the pre-service curriculum and the most appropriate response of medical practitioners faced with gender-based violence

12.30-13.00                     Conclusion and Closing Remarks

13.00-14.45

1. The importance of crime scene investigation in sudden death cases.

 Costel Siserman, Daniel Ureche,  Cristian Gherman, Daniela Mironescu, Cosmin Ignat

2. Fatal carelessness in electrocution

Costel Siserman, Daniel Ureche, Cristian Gherman, Daniela Mironescu, Diana Tudoran, Denisa Lucian

3. Acute organophosphorus intoxication: general aspects and case report.

Costel Siserman, Daniel Ureche, Cristian Gherman, Daniela Mironescu, Andrei Marușca, Alexandra Surdu

4. The evolution of traumatic injuries towards death.

Costel Siserman, Daniela Mironescu, Călin Grecu, Maria Zaharia

5. Thoraco-abdominal injuries and their particularities from occupants of vehicles involved in fatal road accidents in Cluj County

Costel Siserman, Daniela Mironescu, Denisa Ștefania Jurje

14.45 Nicoleta Caranfil - Simptomele psihiatrice, predictori pentru schizofrenie și tulburările psihotice induse de consumul de canabis

MOVIE EVENING INVITATION – Friday 27 September, 17:00

Too Close

Director: Botond Püsök

Documentary film, 2022, Romanian-Hungarian co-production

Runtime: 1 hour 25 minutes

Place:

University of Medicine and Pharmacy “Iuliu Hatieganu” Cluj Napoca

Pasteur Street, no. 6, Preda Amphitheatre

Brief Info about the Film:

Storyline: After a traumatic event in her daughter's life, a mother fights to heal the scars of the past, in a small community that refuses to comprehend what happened.

Taglines: When fear becomes the greatest strength.

Languages: Romanian and Hungarian with English subtitles

Filming locations: Romania

Production companies: Luna Film - Spot Productions

Official social media website: https://www.facebook.com/tooclosedocumentary

10:00 FORENSIC PSYCHOLOGY I

Section coordinator: Andrea Müller-Fabian & Cristian Delcea

1. Life beyond murder: how homicide offenders reconstruct their lives post release

Dan Gabriel Rusu

2. The Impact of Social Media on Mental Health

Sorina BĂLAN

3. Psychological consequences of digital violence on teenage girls. A case study

Bivol Aliona

4. The Impact of Trauma on the Behavior of Victims of Human Trafficking: Reactions and Psychosocial Assistance

Beniamin Lup

5. Group intervention for adolescents to learn and practice skills to control aggression

Andrea Müller-Fabian, Zsolt Török

6. Psychological expertise in minors

Dan Octavian Rusu

7. A Boosting Regression Model for Deception Prediction Using Polygraph Physiological Data

Dana Rad, Csaba Kiss, Nicolae Paraschiv, Gavril Rad

8. The impact of bullying behaviors on adolescent mental health: An analysis of interpersonal relationships in the school context

Rus Mihaela, Sandu Mihaela Luminita, Calin Mariana Floricica, Telecan Ioana

12:50 Coffee break

13:00 MEDICO-LEGAL PSYCHOLOGY II

Section coordinator: Camelia Stanciu & Radu Nicolae

9. Standardization of the questionnaire on paraphilic disorders

Cristian Delcea & Costel Siserman

10. Assessement of bio-psycho-social factors in the context of sexual act with a minor

Camelia Stanciu

11. Psychopathology of sex offenders: psychological traits, associated disorders and intervention strategies

Anamaria Cristina Hambețiu

12. Preventing and combating sexual assaults in schools: the role of counseling and immediate intervention

Pescaru Cristina-Maria, Pescaru Maria, Isaconi Isabela Voichița

13. Blood Toxicants: Psychological, Sociological And Medical Aspects

Pescaru Cristina-Maria, Pescaru Maria, Isaconi Isabela Voichița

14. Review: The Impact of Food on Mental Health

Isaconi Isabela Voichița, Georgescu Mara, Pescaru Cristina-Maria, Georgescu Dragoș, Pescaru Maria

15. Transforming Perceptions Of Drug Consumption Among Youth Through A Cognitive-Social-Medico-Legal Educational Approach

Radu, Carmen Corina, Delcea, Cristian, Plesa Andra, Rad Dana

15:50 Coffee break

16:00 MEDICO-LEGAL PSYCHOLOGY III

Section coordinator: Vanessa Snyder

16. Forensics in the Control Room

Michael Stevens

17. The Nature of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACES) on Brain Development in Children

Vanessa Snyder

18. Prevalence of sexual disorders in victims of sexual abuse

Manuela Gyorgy

Moderators: Sorin Alamoureanu, Veronica Rebreanu

1. War Crimes against the Cultural Heritage of Ukraine in Terms of Russian Aggression as a Challenge for National and International Law

Alina Fesenko & Ivan Toronchuk

2. The CMR's draft law for the amendment and completion of Law no. 95/2006 - the asthenia of a new legal reality?

Oana Maria Paduraru, Veronica Rebreanu

12:50 Coffee break

LEGAL MEDICINE Resident’ s section