Message from the Master - Academy of Medicine of Malaysia

CALENDAR OF EVENTS
20 – 24 August 2007 (Monday – Friday)
29 – 30 March 2008 (Saturday – Sunday)
24TH WORLD CONGRESS OF PATHOLOGY AND LABORATORY MEDICINE
(WASPaLM) 2007
AGM /ANNUAL SCIENTIFIC MEETING OF THE COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS, AMM
Organizer
College of Physicians, AMM
Venue
(To be confirmed)
Secretariat 19 Jalan Folly Barat, 50480 Kuala Lumpur
Tel
+603 2093 0100, 2093 0200
Fax
+603 2093 0900
Email
acadmed@po.jaring.my
“MEETING THE CHALLENGES OF GLOBALISATION AND MINIATURISATION”
Organizer
Venue
Secretariat
Tel
Fax
Email
Website
College of Pathologists, AMM
Sunway Pyramid Convention Centre, Petaling Jaya
Selangor, Malaysia
19 Jalan Folly Barat, 50480 KualaLumpur
+603 2093 0100, 2093 0200
+603 2093 0900
acadmed@po.jaring.my
http://www.waspalm2007.org
24 – 27 April 2008 (Thursday – Sunday)
AGM /ANNUAL SCIENTIFIC MEETING OF THE MALAYSIAN SOCIETY OF
ANAESTHESIOLOGISTS & COLLEGE OF ANAESTHESIOLOGISTS, AMM
Organizer
Malaysian Society of Anaesthesiologists &
College of Anaesthesiologists, AMM
Venue
Awana Porto Malai, Pulau Langkawi, Kedah, Malaysia
Secretariat 19 Jalan Folly Barat, 50480 Kuala Lumpur
Tel
+603 2093 0100, 2093 0200
Fax
+603 2093 0900
Email
acadmed@po.jaring.my
Website
http://www.msa.net.my
29 August – 01 September 2007
(Wednesday – Saturday)
GUT 2007 – ANNUAL SCIENTIFIC MEETING OF MSGH (INCORPORATING THE
7TH INTERNATIONAL ADVANCED ENDOSCOPY WORKSHOP)
“50 YEARS AND ONWARDS”
Organizer
Venue
Secretariat
Tel
Fax
Email
Website
Malaysian Society of Gastroenterology & Hepatology
The Pacific Sutera, Sutera Harbour Resort,
Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia
19 Jalan Folly Barat, 50480 KualaLumpur
+603 2093 0100, 2093 0200
+603 2093 0900
acadmed@po.jaring.my
http://www.msgh.org.my
ANNUAL SCIENTIFIC MEETING & 48 TH ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING OF THE
PRIVATE MEDICAL PRACTITIONERS’ ASSOCIATION OF SELANGOR AND
KUALA LUMPUR
Organizer
Private Medical Practitioners’ Association of Selangor and
Kuala Lumpur
Venue
Hyatt Regency Saujana Resort, Subang, Selangor, Malaysia
Secretariat 19 Jalan Folly Barat, 50480 Kuala Lumpur
Tel
+603 2093 0100, 2093 0200
Fax
+603 2093 0900
Email
acadmed@po.jaring.my
06 – 08 September 2007 (Thursday – Saturday)
“MEDICINE AND HEALTHCARE IN 2020”
Academy of Medicine of Malaysia & Ministry of Health Malaysia
Bayview Beach Resort, Penang, Malaysia
19 Jalan Folly Barat, 50480 KualaLumpur
+603 2093 0100, 2093 0200
+603 2093 0900
acadmed@po.jaring.my
05 – 09 June 2008 (Thursday – Monday)
8TH ASIA PACIFIC CONGRESS OF CARDIOVASCULAR & INTERVENTIONAL
RADIOLOGY (APCCVIR) AND 31 ST AGM OF THE COLLEGE OF RADIOLOGY, AMM
AND ENDOVASCULAR & NEUROINTERVENTIONAL RADIOLOGY SYMPOSIUM
(EINR) III 2008
Organizer
College of Radiology, AMM
Venue
Crowne Plaza Mutiara Hotel, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Secretariat 8th APCCVIR 2008
Event Solution Management Sdn Bhd
9A Jalan BK 5A/2 Bandar Kinrara, 47100 Puchong, Selangor
Tel
+603 8076 6086
Fax
+603 8070 8226
Email
secretariat@apccvir2008.org
Website
www.apccvir2008.org
26 – 27 October 2007 (Friday – Saturday)
10TH ANNUAL SCIENTIFIC MEETING OF MALAYSIAN ASSOCIATION FOR
THORACIC AND CARDIOVASCULAR SURGERY
Organizer
Malaysian Association for Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
Venue
Shangri-La Hotel, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Secretariat 19 Jalan Folly Barat, 50480 Kuala Lumpur
Tel
+603 2093 0100, 2093 0200
Fax
+603 2093 0900
Email
acadmed@po.jaring.my
26 – 29 June 2008 (Thursday – Sunday)
15 – 17 November 2007 (Thursday – Saturday)
AAOS INSTRUCTIONAL COURSES & 28 TH ASEAN ORTHOPAEDIC ASSOCIATION
CONGRESS & 38 TH MOA ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING / ANNUAL SCIENTIFIC
MEETING 2008
Organizer
Malaysian Orthopaedic Association
Venue
Shangri-La Hotel, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Secretariat 19 Jalan Folly Barat, 50480 Kuala Lumpur
Tel
+603 2093 0100, 2093 0200
Fax
+603 2093 0900
Email
acadmed@po.jaring.my
Website
http://www.moa-home.com
1ST INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ADDICTION MEDICINE
Organizer
Academy of Medicine of Malaysia & Federation of Private
Medical Practitioners Associations, Malaysia (FPMPAM)
Venue
Shangri-La Hotel, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Secretariat 19 Jalan Folly Barat, 50480 KualaLumpur
Tel
+603 2093 0100, 2093 0200
Fax
+603 2093 0900
Email
acadmed@po.jaring.my
07 – 08 March 2008 (Friday – Saturday)
10 – 13 July 2008 (Thursday – Sunday)
6TH MALAYSIAN COLORECTAL CONFERENCE
Organizer
Malaysian Society of Colorectal Surgeons
Venue:
Shangri-La Hotel, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Secretariat 19 Jalan Folly Barat, 50480 Kuala Lumpur
Tel
+603 2093 0100, 2093 0200
Fax
+603 2093 0900
Email
acadmed@po.jaring.my
Website
http://www.acadmed.org.my
6TH NATIONAL CONFERENCE ON INTENSIVE CARE
Organizer
Intensive Care Section, Malaysian Society of Anaesthesiologists
Venue
Shangri-La Hotel, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Secretariat 19 Jalan Folly Barat, 50480 Kuala Lumpur
Tel
+603 2093 0100, 2093 0200
Fax
+603 2093 0900
Email
acadmed@po.jaring.my
Website
http://www.ncic.org.my
20 – 22 March 2008 (Thursday – Saturday)
31 July – 03 August 2008 (Thursday – Sunday)
11TH ASIAN ASSOCIATION OF ENDOCRINE SURGEONS & ANNUAL
SCIENTIFIC MEETING OF THE COLLEGE OF SURGEONS, AMM
Organizer
College of Surgeons, AMM
Venue:
Magellan Sutera Hotel, Kota Kinabalu
Sabah, Malaysia
Secretariat 19 Jalan Folly Barat, 50480 Kuala Lumpur
Tel
+603 2093 0100, 2093 0200
Fax
+603 2093 0900
Email
acadmed@po.jaring.my
Website
http://www.acadmed.org.my
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PP 6561/12/2007 JUNE 2007
Message from the Master
Professor Dato’ Dr Khalid Abdul Kadir
Master, Academy of Medicine of Malaysia
26 – 27 April 2008 (Saturday – Sunday)
7TH MOH-AMM SCIENTIFIC MEETING (INCORPORATING THE 10 TH SCIENTIFIC
MEETING OF THE NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH)
Organizer
Venue
Secretariat
Tel
Fax
Email
B E R I TA AKADEMI / VOL. 16 No. 2
42ND MALAYSIA-SINGAPORE CONGRESS OF MEDICINE
Organizer
Academy of Medicine of Malaysia
Venue
(To be confirmed)
Secretariat 19 Jalan Folly Barat, 50480 Kuala Lumpur
Tel
+603 2093 0100, 2093 0200
Fax
+603 2093 0900
Email
acadmed@po.jaring.my
Website
http://www.acadmed.org.my
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This
year 2007 marks
the 50 th a n n i ve r s a ry of
Me rdeka…. and also the
5 0 th a n n i ve r s a ry of the
founding of the Academy of
Medicine on 19 July 1957 in
Si n g a p o re. That Ac a d e m y
was the fore - runner of
our Academy of Medicine
of Malaysia. Thus in a
s e n s e, we should also
be celebrating the 50 th
anniversary of the Academy
this
ye a r.
Si n g a p o re
c e l e b rated
the
50 th
anniversary of the founding
of the Academy in a big way at the 41st Singapore-Malaysia
Co n g ress of Medicine on 19 Ju l y, the date of the first
meeting of 34 doctors who founded the Ac a d e m y.
The Academy of Medicine of Malaysia was formed on
22 December 1966 in Kuala Lumpur, but in a sense it was a
break away branch of the original Academy. Thus we should
also be celebrating our 50 th Anniversary.
more if not all specialists to join the Academy of Medicine.
We have amended the Constitution to make it easier for the
n a t i o n’s specialists to join, by doing away with the
requirement for publications. The Singapore Academy had
done this seven years ago, and has become much stronger
with more representation because of it.
We have had very good support from the government over
the past 50 years, perhaps because many of the specialists
were/are from the Ministry of Health or the Universities.
With their support, we managed to get the Joint Colleges
Land opposite the Hospital Kuala Lumpur, and the use of
the present Academy of Medicine House behind the
Parliament.
We have now started construction of the Academy Building
at the Joint Colleges Land, with funds raised from the Fund
Raising Dinner two years ago, and funds accumulated by
the Colleges of Physicians and Su rg e o n s, and the Academy
of Family Physicians of Malaysia, as a result of the
delineation of the land for the widening of the road at the
Jalan Pahang roundabout. However the funds available are
not enough… we are still short of RM2.0 million. May I
appeal to all of you to please donate, perhaps as a gesture of
celebrating our 50th anniversary, so that we can complete
the building by March next year the latest. Please give
generously, and encourage your friends to do the same.
If each of the 2000 members were to donate RM1000, we
should have enough. Your names will forever be on the walls
of the Academy Building.
The 7th Ministry of Health – Academy of Medicine Scientific
Meeting perhaps should be viewed as an occasion for us to
celebrate both the 50 th anniversary of Merdeka and our
Academy!
However, as in all landmarks of our lives, it is perhaps
a p p ro p riate for us to reminisce and look at our past
achievements and failures, and plan for a better 50 years.
What have we achieved and where do we go from here?
The Academy Of Medicine was founded with the objective
of determining, maintaining and improving the high quality
of specialist practice based on scientifically prove n
evidence based medicine, or commonly called we s t e rn
m e d i c i n e. We are now being challenged by altern a t i ve
medicines. The best way to prove to our patients that we are
practising good medicine is to ensure we practice evidence
based medicine. For this purpose, the Academy has worked
hard with the Ministry of Health to provide clinical practice
guidelines on various illnesses and medical conditions.
We sincerely hope that our members will try to follow these
guidelines and at the same time, be humane, have empathy
and practise good professional bedside manners. Please
uphold the good traditions of our medical practice.
We have been appointed as the custodian/managers of the
National Specialist Register by the Ministry of Health, whilst
waiting for the new Medical Act to be approved. We have
been given funds to get it started, and appointed
committees This is a very heavy responsibility, and I am
very happy to see the various specialist subcommittees are
working very diligently to determine the type, duration and
standards of training needed for our future specialists.
We still have a long way to go… we need to encourage more
if not all specialists to be registered with the National
Specialist Register. At the same time, we need to encourage
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News from the College of Radiology
News from the College of Paediatrics
P rof Dr Victor Lim Delivers the Keynote Address
at the 30 th Annual General and Scientific Meeting
of the College of Radiology
themed “Imaging in Infectious Diseases”
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Professor Lee Way Seah has been elected as the new President of the College of Paediatrics.
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College of Paediatrics will be organizing ‘The First National Paediatric Research Conference’ on 11 August 2007. The
venue is at Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur. The objectives are to foster the culture of
research in the paediatric fraternity in Malaysia, and to provide an opportunity for researchers to exchange ideas and
results of their researches. Various eminent researchers and speakers from Malaysia have been invited to speak during
the conference. The topics to be covered include:
• Ethical issues in research
• Doing research and getting it published – a 22-year experience of a busy neonatoligist
• Ethical issues in paediatric research
• How not to get your manuscript rejected
• Research in paediatrics – from bench to bedside
• How to get funding for research
• Conducting research in Malaysia: the role of CRC (Clinical Research Centre) and the CGCP (Certificate of Good Clinical
Practice)
• Usefulness of becoming a member of the Asian Society of Paediatric Research (APSR)
In addition, a half-day free papers session will allow oral presentations.
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The College of Paediatrics will be organizing a One-day teaching course in Paediatric Hepatology April 2008, with
the participation of a visiting hepatologist from the United States.
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The College of Paediatrics continues to represent Malaysia at the Asian Pediatric Research Society (APRS).
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AMMCOP will organize a two-day conference April 2008: 2nd National Paediatric Research Conference in
Conjunction with Paediatric Liver Update. Invited oversea speaker: Professor Ronald J Sokol, The Children’s
Hospital, Denver, Colorado, US.
2–3 JUNE 2007
By Dr Evelyn Ho
This year, for the first time as well, there was a booth for
Rest & Relaxation with Nintendo Wii games to unwind and
relax the mind after concentrating for the lectures.
The meeting was held in Crowne Plaza Mutiara Kuala
Lumpur.
Professor Dr Adeeba Kamarulzaman, President of the
Malaysian Aids Council and also Head of the Infectious
Disease Unit, Department of Medi cine in Uni v e r s i t y
Malaya spoke on the current status of AIDS and clinical
perspective in Fever of Unknown Origin. Other local
L to R: Victor Lim, Evelyn Ho, Augustine Ong Soon Hock
speakers were nuclear medicine physicians – Dr Felix
Sundram and Dr Lee Boon Nang and Interventional
The 30th College of Radiology’s Annual General and
Radiologist, Dr Alex Tang.
Scientific Meeting was not the usual run of the mill
conference this year. Tan Sri Datuk Augustine Ong Soon
The foreign faculty included Professor Dr Christian
Hock, PhD delivered the Inaugural biij (Biomedi c a l
Imaging
&
Intervention
Journal)
Lecture
Herold, President of the 2007 European Congress of
on
Radiology as well as Dr In-One Kim and Dr Jung Ah Choi
“Phytonutrients from palm oil: From idea to market” and
from Korea and Dr Albert Low from Singapore.
the keynote address on “The resurgence of infections and
threats to the world” was delivered by Prof Dr Victor Lim,
The best oral paper was on “Multidetector CT of the liver
Dean of International Medical University and Deputy
and hepatic neoplasms: Effect of multiphase imaging on
Master of the Academy of Medicine, the umbrella body of
tumour detection, characterization and change in the
the College of Radiology. In his keynote address, Victor
management”. The best e-poster was on “Development of a
Lim gave some rather basic information on pathogens, and
low-cost phantom for performance test evaluation of single
reminded us that only 10% of the cells in or on our bodies
photon emission computed tomography (SPECT)”.
were human, the rest being made up of bacteria! So it was
indeed timely for this year’s theme of the meeting to be
The expanded article with more snapshots can be found on:
Imaging in Infectious Diseases.
http://www.radiologymalaysia.org/Content/2007/News/060
2CoR_ASM.html
Officiating at the opening ceremony was Yang Berbahagia
Dato’ Dr Noorimi bt Hj Morad, Deputy Director of Health
Lectures delivered at this meeting are available at the open
(Medical Division). She also opened the Trade Exhibition
access free online journal: www.biij.org (Biomedi c a l
on 2 June 2007 and was taken on a tour of the booths.
Imaging and Intervention Journal).
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COLLEGE OF
SURGEONS
COLLEGE OF
ANAESTHESIOLOGISTS
COLLEGE OF
PAEDIATRICS
COUNCIL 2007 – 2008
OFFICE BEARERS 2007 – 2008
COUNCIL 2007 – 2008
President
Dr Lum Siew Kheong
President
Dr Mohamed Namazie Ibrahim
President
Prof Dr Lee Way Seah
Senior Vice President
Datuk Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah
Vice President
Assoc Prof Lim Thiam Aun
Vice President
Dr Hussein Imam
Vice President
Prof Dato’ Lian Chin Boon
Hon Secretary
Prof Felicia Lim
Secretary
Dr Winston Yong Sin Chuen
Hon Secretary
Dr Lim Lay Hooi
Council Members
Dr Joseph Manavalan
Datin Dr V Sivasakthi
Dr Mary Cardosa
Dato’ Dr Mohd Hassan Ariff
Prof Chan Yoo Kuen
Treasurer
Prof Dr Thong Meow Keong
Hon Treasurer
Prof David Choon
Council Members
Dr Chew Loon Guan
Dr Andrew Gunn
Dr Isa Omar
Prof Dato’ Lokman Saim
Dr Pall Singh
Dr Ashim Kumar Nandy
Dr Rohan Malek
Prof Yip Cheng Har
Committee Members
Prof Dr Boo Nem Yun
Assoc Prof Dr Rohana Jaafar
Dato’ Dr Jimmy Lee Kok Foo
Coopted Council Members
Prof Dr Nik Abdullah
Prof Ramani Vijayan
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