APCP 2012

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14th APCP & 4th APCN

8 – 12 September, 2012

 

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Pre-congress: Saturday, 8 September, 2012

Time

Sarawak General Hospital Heart Centre

BCCK

Room 2&3

BCCK

Room 7,8,9

BCCK

Room 10&11

BCCK

Room 5

BCCK

Room 4

BCCK

Room 12

0900-1300

WS1

WS2

WS3

WS4

WS5

WS6

WS7

Echocardiography for the non-cardiologist

 

Coordinator:

Mazeni Alwi

 

Facilitators

Krishna Kumar

Haifa Abdul Latif

Martin Wong

Yazmin Yusoff Azudin

Nalinimalar Kumarasamy

Neonatal cranial ultrasonography

 

Coordinator:

 Cheah Fook Choe

 

Facilitators

Boo Nem Yun

Zaleha Abd Manaf

 

EEG For The General Paediatrician

 

Coordinator:

Wong Chee Piau

 

Facilitators

Alex Khoo Peng Chuan

Wong Chee Piau

Thomas Yeoh

Fong Sue Yng

Tee Ting Yee

 

Lung function studies

 

 

Coordinator:

Norzila Mohamed Zainudin

 

Facilitators

Asiah Kassim

Patrick Chan

Rus Anida Awang

Hasniah Abdul Latif

Trauma in Childhood

 

Coordinator:

 Mohd Sham Kasim

Thiyagar Nadarajaw

 

Facilitators

Amar Singh

Nguyen Trong An

Irene Cheah

 

Protecting Children And Families From Tobacco: Leadership Training

 

Coordinators:

Zabidi Hussin

Jonathan D. Klein

Susan Mercado

 

Facilitators

Ruth Etzel

Xiao Dan

Jonathan D. Klein

Susan Mercado

Shohei Harada

Florianne L. Valdez

Francis Edwards Rushton, Jr.

Nguyen Ahn Thi Viet

Teoh Oon Hoe

Patient safety through simulation

 

Coordinator:

Lindy Ong Lim Liew

 

Facilitators

Agnes Ng

Lindy Ong

Linda Ang

Wong Sook Thow

1230-1330

Lunch

1400-1600

Echocardiography for the non-cardiologist

Neonatal cranial ultrasonography

 

Lung function studies

 

Trauma in childhood

 

APPNA 4th Steering Committee Meeting

                 


Satellite symposium: Saturday, 8 September, 2012

Time

Hall C

Hall D

Room 14

Room 13

1600-1730

 

Satellite symposium 1

Satellite symposium 2

Satellite symposium 3

Satellite symposium 4

 

Pfizer

Role of Conjugate Vaccines in Pneumococcal Disease Prevention

Chairperson: Daniel Goh

 

1. Evolution of Conjugate Vaccines

    Shilpa Patil

 

2. Introduction to Pneumococcal  

    Conjugate Vaccines: An Asian

    Experience

    Ellis Hon

 

 

GSK

Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccines for Prevention of Paediatric Pneumococcal Disease-Experience and Evidence

Chairperson: Musa Mohd Nordin

 

1. Prevention of invasive pneumococcal  

    disease: The real world experience

    Bernard Hoet

 

2. Assessing the efficacy and effectiveness  

    of pneumococcal conjugate vaccines  

    against pneumonia: What are the

    implications for clinical practice?

    Shabir Madhi

 

3. Otitis media in the era of pneumococcal  

    conjugate vaccines

    Colin Barber

 

Nestlé

Chairperson: Amir Hamzah Latiff

 

Dietary strategies to prevent allergic disease in childhood

Ralf G Heine

Danone Dumex

 Chairperson: Lee Way Seah

 

1. Paediatric Food Allergy: Practical Guides  

     for Diagnosis

     Sybille Koletzko

 

2. Management of CMPA – the Malaysian  

    Perspective

    Chai Pei Fan

 

 

 

 

Day 1: Saturday, 8 September, 2012

Time

Borneo Convention Centre Kuching

Hall A

1800-1900

OPENING CEREMONY

 

Inaugural Perla D. Santos Ocampo Memorial Lecture

Chairperson: Mohd Sham Kasim

 

Seeking Equity In Child Health In An Unequal World

Chan Chok Wan

 

Borneo Convention Centre Kuching

Hall B

1900-2000

 

COCKTAIL RECEPTION

 

 

Day 2: Sunday, 9 September, 2012

Time

Room 12

Room 13

Room 2+3

Room 4+5

Room 8+9

Room 14

0800-0900

Meet-the-expert 1

Rapid diagnostic tests

 

Moderator:

Tan Kah Kee

 

Expert

Chua Kaw Bing

Somsak Lolekha

 

Meet-the-expert 2

Assessment of nutritional status

 

 

Moderator:

Lee Way Seah

 

Experts:

Cheah Whye Lian

Meet-the-expert 3

ABC of genetic testing

 

 

Moderator:

Thong Meow Keong

 

 

Experts:

Matsuo Masafumi

Lai Poh-San

Stephen Lam

Meet-the-expert 4

The child with swollen joints

 

Moderator:

Tang Swee Ping

 

 

Expert:

Taunton R  Southwood

Meet-the-expert 5

Skin Signs of Connective tissue disease in children

 

Moderator:

Mardziah Alias

 

Expert:

Ellis Hon

Giam Yoke Chin

Meet-the-expert 6

Paediatric Palliative Care

 

Moderator:

Pang Nguk Lan

 

 

Expert:

Lin Kwok Yin, Molin

 

Hall A

0900-1000

Plenary 1 - Hard Talk

 

Moderator: Zulkifli Ismail

 

Achieving the MDG – countdown to 2015

Panelists: Kim Mulholland, Chan Chok Wan, Syed Al-Junid

1000-1030

Coffee Break

 

Hall A

Hall B

Hall C

Hall D

Room 13

Room 14

1030-1200

Symposium 1:

Advocacy & reaching the masses

 

Chairpersons:

Noor Khatijah Nurani

 

1.        Ethics of working with the industry – black & white or grey areas

          Chan Chok Wan

 

2.        Collaborating with the food industry in nutrition promotion

Tee E Siong

 

3.        Empowering Pediatricians in Vaccine Advocacy

Lulu Bravo

 

4.        Positive parenting – a multi-faceted, professional initiated parent education programme

Zulkifli Ismail

Symposium 2:

Paediatric Critical Care

 

Chairpersons:

Tang Swee Fong

 

1.        Ventilatory strategies in ALI/ARDS

Bo Sun

 

 

2.        Surviving sepsis in resource-limited countries

Niranjan Kissoon

 

3.        Preparing for a pandemic

Bo Sun

 

4.        Contemporary issues in Neurocritical care: an Asian perspective

Sunit Singhi

Symposium 3:

Childhood Cancer

 

Chairpersons:

Bharat Agarwal

Wan Ariffin Wan Abdullah

 

1.        Exciting developments in ALL treatment

Allen Yeoh

 

 

2.        The role of surgeon in the treatment of childhood cancer

Zakaria Zahari

 

3.        Survivorship and long term problems

Hishamshah Ibrahim

 Symposium 4:

Asthma

 

Chairpersons:

Patrick Chan

Anne Chang

 

1.        Paediatric asthma care in the Asia-Pacific: where are we compared to our western counterparts?

Norzila Mohamed Zainudin

 

2.        Paediatric asthma phenotypes: how does it influence management?

Peter le Souef

 

3.        Difficult asthma in children

Peter le Souef

 

4.        Barriers to effective asthma management

Hasniah Abdul Latif

Symposium 5:

Dermatology

 

Chairpersons:

Mardziah Alias

Sabeera Begum

 

1.        Bullous lesions in children

Mardziah Alias

 

2.        Drug eruptions

Ellis Hon

 

3.        The skin barrier and treatment strategy in atopic dermatitis

Giam Yoke Chin

 

4.        Vascular tumours in children

Sabeera Begum

Symposium 6:

Nursing - Nutrition in children

Chairpersons:

Zheng Xianlan

Nancy Wong

 

1.        Helping mothers to breastfeed

Koe Swee Lee

 

2.        Management on long term parenteral nutrition

Audrey Chan

 

3.        Managing infusions and transfusions in children

LalanthiRanasinghe

 

4.        Impact of a parenteral nutrition support team

Audrey Chan

 

Hall A

Hall B

Room 10 & 11

1200-1400

Lunch symposium - Pfizer

Pneumococcal Disease Prevention in Asia – Emerging Data and New Frontiers

Chairperson: Daniel Goh


1. Global Burden of Pneumococcal Disease in Children 

    and Adults: The Need for Enhanced Protection

    Julio Ramirez

 

2.Targeting High-Risk Groups for Pneumococcal

     Vaccination

    Somsak Lolekha

 

3. PCV13: Emerging Evidence of  Effectiveness in   

    Children

    Shilpa Patil

Lunch symposium - GSK

Strategies to Reduce the Burden of Significant

Childhood Infection

Chairperson: Lee Way Seah

 

1. Value of Vaccines

    Musa Mohd Nordin

 

2. Rotavirus disease burden in Asia Pacific

    Lulu Bravo

 

3.Human rotavirus story, broad and early protection and 

   impact from various regions

   Miguel O Ryan

 

4. DTPa-HBV-IPV/Hib: Building on the 10 year heritage

    Shabir Madhi

 

35th Meeting of National Delegates of APPA

 

Hall A

Hall B

Hall C

Hall D

Room 13

Room 14

1400-1530

Symposium 7:

Nutrition in practice

 

Chairpersons:

Quak Seng Hock

Lee Way Seah

 

1.        Feeding difficulties

Benny Kerzner

 

2.      Breast Feeding

         Empowering
         Mothers & Families

Koe Swee Lee

 

 

 

3.       Complementary

          feeding - are we   
          doing it right?

Khor Geok Lin

 

4.      Feeding a

          malnourished child

Endy Paryanto

Symposium 8:

Neurology

 

Chairpersons:

Hussain Imam

Wong Chee Piau

1.        Childhood coma

Fenella Kirkham

 

2.        Movement disorders in children

Vigneswari Ganesan

 

 

3.        Management strategies in epilepsy

Wong Chee Piau

 

4.        Challenges and diagnosis of paediatric stroke

          Fenella Kirkham

 

Symposium 9:

Genetics

 

Chairpersons:

Janice Fletcher

Thong Meow Keong

 

1.        Public health genetic and genomic medicine

Stephen Lam

 

2.        Role of ‘omics’ in diagnosis and therapeutics of childhood illness

Lai Poh-San

 

3.        Gene and cancer

Allen Yeoh

 

4.        Gene therapy – quo

vadis?

Matsuo Masafumi

 

 

Symposium 10:

ASAP symposium

 

Chairpersons:

Lulu Bravo

Zulkifli Ismail

 

 

1.        Acquisition, implementation and potential impact of PCV in Pakistan

Iqbal Memon

 

2.        Pneumococccal meningitis: a parent's perspective

Bruce Langoulant

Symposium 11:

Child health and the environment

 

Chairpersons:

Amar-Singh

Saw Win

 

1.        Hygiene, pollution and chain of infection

Ben Marais

 

 

2.        Child Health and the enviromnent within, gut microbiota

Toshiro Hara

 

3.        Functional foods for promotion of child health and growth

Tee E Siong

Asia Pacific Paediatric Nurses Association Annual General Meeting

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1530-1600

Tea Break

 

Hall A

Hall B

Hall C

Hall D

Room 13

 

1600-1730

Symposium 12:

Vulnerable children and universal access to healthcare

 

Chairpersons:

Mohd Sham Kasim

Mesbah Uddin Ahmed

 

1.        Stateless children

Soo Thian Lian

 

2.        Indigenous health

Amar-Singh

 

3.      HIV/AIDS paediatric 

         care in Difficult Area

Karam Jeet Singh Sarjit Singh

 

4.      Optimal

         rehabilitation

         to remote and rural

         communities

Jane Galvin

 

 

 

 

Symposium 13: Ethics, Research and Practice

 

Chairpersons:

Ariffin Nasir

Gui Yonghao

 

 

1.        Putting ethics in place

Zabidi Azhar Hussin

 

2.        The potential for research in Asia Pacific

Toshiro Hara

 

3.        Development of an online PICU educational programme

Niranjan Kissoon

 

4.      Introduction to

         public health

         research in

         paediatrics?

         Ruth Etzel

 

Symposium 14:  

Viral Infectious diseases

 

 

Chairpersons:

Kamarul Azahar

Usa Thisyakorn

 

1.        What's new in Dengue?

Usa Thisyakorn

 

 

2.        Emerging infections - new scourge at our doorstep

Chua Kaw Bing

 

3.        Viral encephalitis in Asia - A regional perspective

Tan Kah Kee

 

4.      Polio: Endgame

Musa Mohd Nordin

Symposium 15:

Cardiology

 

Chairpersons:

Mazeni Alwi

Hung Liang Choo

 

 

1.        Advances in paediatric cardiology and cardiac surgery - tailoring to the needs and realities of the Asia Pacific region

Krishna Kumar

 

2.        Skills in basic echo - enhancing the role of paediatricians in first line cardiac diagnosis and followup care

Haifa Abdul Latif

 

3.        Developing a comprehensive paediatric cardiac service - the Indonesian experience

Sukman Tulus Putra

Symposium 16:

Teen affairs

 

Chairpersons:

Thiyagar Nadarajaw

George Patton

 

 

1.        Adolescents , media and health

Susan Sawyer

 

2.        Mental disorders and depression in children

George Patton

 

3.        Eating disorders in teenagers

Susan Sawyer

 

4.        Teens living with chronic illnesses

Jonathan Klein

 

               

 

 Day 3: Monday, 10 September, 2012

Time

Room 12

Room 13

Room 2+3

Room 4+5

Room 8+9

Room 14

0800-0900

Meet-the-expert 7

Cough in children

 

Moderator:

Dr Rus Anida Awang

 

Expert

Anne Chang

 

Meet-the-expert 8

Type II diabetes: the Asia Pacific time bomb

 

Moderator:

Suttipong Watcharasindh

 

Experts:

Louis Low

 

Meet the expert 9

Approach to the child with suspected inborn error of metabolism

 

Moderator

Thong Meow Keong

 

Experts

Janice Fletcher

Yoshikatsu Eto

Meet-the-expert 10

The blue baby

 

 

 

Moderator

Mazeni Alwi

 

Experts

Krishna Kumar

Haifa Abdul Latif

Meet-the-expert 11

Primary Immunodeficiencies – The Asia Experience

 

Moderator

Amir Hamzah Latiff

 

Expert

Lau Yu Lung

 

Meet-the-expert 12

Imaging in Paediatrics

 

 

Moderator

Selva Kumar Sivappuniam

 

Expert

Zaleha Abd Manaf

Time

Hall A

Hall C

0900-0930

Plenary 2

 

Chairperson

Wan Ariffin Wan Abdullah

 

Roadmap to MDG4 - is vaccination a major milestone?

Shabir Madhi

Inauguration ceremony of the Asia Pacific Pediatric Nurses Association (APPNA)

0930-1000

Plenary 3 - Bill Marshall Lecture

Chairperson

Koh Chong Tuan

 

Pneumonia in the Asia Pacific region - are we reducing mortality in the under 5?

Kim Mulholland

1000-1030

Coffee Break

 

Room 12

Room 13

Room 3

Room 4

Room 5

1030-1200

Young Investigator Award

Chairman

Wan Ariffin Wan Abdullah

 

Best poster symposium

Chairman

Lee Way Seah

Free Paper 1

Chairman

Cheah Fook Choe

 

Free Paper 2

Chairman

Mazeni Alwi

Free Paper 3

Chairman

Hans van Rostenberghe

Foyer Hall A & B and Foyer Hall C & D

Poster rounds

 

Hall A

Room 10 & 11

1200-1400

Lunch symposium – Sanofi

Chairperson: Musa Mohd Nordin

 

1. Penta & Hexa valent combination vaccines of today & tomorrow  

    Shabir A Madhi

                                                                                                                                                  

2. Imojev: Overview of Novel Vaccine against JE with a single dose as primary schedule  

    Alain Bouckenooghe

 

3. The Burden and Prevention of Influenza in Children  

    Mark Simmermans

 

36th Meeting of National Delegates of APPA

 

Hall A

Hall B

Hall C

Hall D

Room 13

Room 14

1400-1530

Symposium 17:

Gastroenterology and Hepatology

 

Chairpersons:

Lee Way Seah

Badriul Hegar

 

1.        Rotavirus - Joining the dots on a global problem

Tony Nelson

 

2.        Chronic diarrhoea

Yati Soenarto

 

3.        Chronic recurrent abdominal pain - CRAP?

Quak Seng Hock

 

4.        Update on Viral hepatitis

Lee Ping-Ing

 

 

 

 

Symposium 18:

Neonatology

 

 

Chairpersons:

Cheah Fook Choe

Chan Lee Gaik

 

1.        Surfactant use in developing countries

Sailesh Gupta

2.        Temperature control in premature infants

Samuel Rajadurai

 

3.        BPD treatment and prevention

Simon Lam

 

4.        Retinopathy of Prematurity – recent advances in management

Mae-Lynn Catherine Bastion

 

Symposium 19:

Metabolic disorders

 

 

Chairpersons:

Lai Poh-San

Thong Meow Keong

 

1.        Avoiding underdiagnosis of metabolic disorders: think metabolic!

Janice Fletcher

 

2.        Mucopolysaccharidoses - a diagnostic challenge to paediatricians?

Yoshikatsu Eto

 

3.        Metabolic emergencies

Thong Meow Keong

 

 

 

Symposium 20: Pulmonology

 

 

Chairpersosns:

Norzila Mohamed Zainudin

Daniel Goh

 

1.        Improving immunization strategies to help protect against pertussis throughout life

Anne Goh

 

2.        Bronchiolitis obliterans: diagnosis and management

Patrick Chan

 

3.        Non-Cystic Fibrosis Bronchiectasis

Anne Chang

 

Symposium 21: Therapeutics

 

 

Chairpersons:

Wan Ariffin Wan Abdullah

 

 

1.        Monoclonal antibodies in the treatment of autoimflammatory syndromes  

 Lau Yu Lung

 

2.        Targeted therapy in childhood cancer

Allen Yeoh

 

3.        Access to essential medicines after WTO era

Tariq Bhutta

 

4.       The Use of anti-TNF-

          alpha monoclonal 

          antibody in childhood

          inflammatory bowel

          disease

Lee Way Seah

 

 

 

 

Symposium 22:

Nursing – Expanding the role of nurses

 

 

Chairpersons:

Pang Nguk Lan

Yumiko Nakamura

 

1.        Expanding roles of nurses – United Kingdom Experience

Fiona Smith

 

2.        Asia Pacific experience – Malaysia

Khatijah Abdullah

 

3.        Asia Pacific experience – Hong Kong

Susanna Lee

 

4.        Expanding the role of Paediatric Nurse-Experience in China

Zheng Xianlan

1530-1600

Tea Break

 

Colosseum Ballroom (Level 2, Pullman Hotel)

2000-2200

Congress Dinner

               

 

 Day 4: Tuesday, 11 September, 2012

Time

Room 12

Room 13

Room 2+3

Room 4+5

Room 8+9

Room 14

0800-0900

Meet the expert 13

NICE way of managing UTI

 

Moderator

Hans van Rostenberghe

 

Expert

Partini P Trihono

Asiri Abeyagunawardena

Meet-the-expert 14

Anaphylaxis: Causes, early recognition, and prompt treatment

 

Moderator:

Amir Hamzah Latiff

 

Expert

Sami Bahna

Meet-the-expert 15

Dengue infection - update on management

 

Moderator

Kamarul Azahar

Expert

Usa Thisyakorn

Sunit Singhi

Meet-the-expert 16

Pain & Children

 

Moderator

Tang Swee Ping

 

Expert

Taunton R  Southwood

Pang Nguk Lan

Meet-the-expert 17

Headache in children

 

 

Moderator

Wong Chee Piau

 

Expert

Hussain Imam

 

Meet the expert 18

Nursing – Infection Control Disease

Outbreak Management

 

Moderator

Lalanthi Ranasinghe

 

Expert

Lim Siok Hong

 

Hall A

0900-0930

Plenary 4

Chairperson

Soo Thian Lian

 

Paediatric Critical Care - the global agenda

Niranjan Kisson

0930-1000

Plenary 5

Chairperson

Allen Yeoh

 

Childhood cancer is curable even in developing countries

Bharat Agarwal

1000-1030

Coffee Break

 

Hall A

Hall B

Hall C

Hall D

Room 13

 

1030-1200

Symposium  23:

Bridging the gap

 

Chairpersons:

Nguyen Cong Khanh

Zabidi Azhar Hussin

 

1.        GAVI: Global support and community action

          Tony Nelson

2.        Oncology: bringing St Judes to Asia

Allen Yeoh

 

3.        Cardiology – the IJN initiative

Mazeni Alwi

 

4.        A community development approach to helping children with chronic health conditions – the example of Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia

Kate Armstrong

Symposium 24:

Nephrology

 

Chairpersons:

Hans van Rostenberghe

Takashi Igarashi

 

1.        Nephrotic syndrome - exotic disease

Anand S Vasudev

 

2.         Current management of enuresis

Partini P Trihono

 

3.        Acute kidney injury

Anand S Vasudev

 

4.        End-stage renal failure - inequities in management

Asiri Abeyagunawardena

Symposium  25:

HIV & TB –the twin terrors

 

Chairpersons:

Rajeshwar Dayal

Kamarul Azahar

 

1.        Changing faces of tuberculosis

Ben Marais

2.        New problems in diagnosis and treatment of TB

Rajeshwar Dayal

 

3.        Prevention of vertical transmission of HIV: is it achievable

Ben Marais

 

4.        Growing up with HIV Kamarul Azahar

Symposium  26:

Autoimmune disorders

 

Chairpersons:

Lau Yu Lung

Tang Swee Ping

 

 

1.        Lupus in children: What have we learnt?

Tang Swee Ping

2.        New treatments for Juvenile Idiopathic  Arthritis –  from bench to bedside

         Taunton R  Southwood

 

3.        Autoimmune cytopaenias

Shekhar Krishnan

 

4.       Autoimmune 

          Encephalitis-Don’t 

          Miss it

Hussain Imam

Symposium 27:

Office Paediatrics - Eyes, ears, nose and throat

Chairpersons:

Kok Chin Leong

Jyoti Ratna Dhakhwa

 

1.        Common paediatric eye conditions

Mae-Lynn Catherine Bastion

 

2.      The painful ear: is it 

          AOM?

Gretchen Novosro Locsin

 

3.       Sniffles & Stuffiness: Is It Allergic Rhinitis?

Gretchen Novosro Locsin

 

4.        Tonsilitis & pharyngitis

Somsak Lolekha

 

 

 

 

Hall A

Hall B

1200-1400

Lunch symposium – Invida

Atopic Dermatitis

Chairperson: Sabeera Begum

 

1.  Advances in the Pathogenesis and Treatment of Atopic Dermatitis

    Thomas Luger

 

2.  Reactive vs. Proactive Treatment in Atopic Dermatitis

     Giam Yoke Chin

 

3. The Role of Allergy in Atopic Dermatitis
    Pantipa Chatchatee

 

Lunch symposium – Mead Johnson Nutrition

Chairperson: Colin Rudolph

 

1.Persistent or Chronic Diarrhea in Childhood: An Approach to Diagnosis and Management

   Geoff Cleghorn

 

2. Food Allergy in Children: Perspectives for the Future

    Adam T Fox

 

Hall A

Hall B

Hall C

Hall D

Room 13

Room 14

1400-1530

Symposium 28:

Addressing disparity in child health

 

Chairpersons:

Hussain Imam

Kok Chin Leong

 

1.        Strategies to reduce disparities in childhood diarrhea and pneumonia deaths

Zulfiqar Bhutta

 

2.        Equity in Child Health thru’ Breast Feeding

Koe Swee Lee

 

3.        Public and  private health delivery, the widening gap

Syed Al-Junid

 

4.        Is health insurance = health assurance in developing countries?

Syed Al-Junid

Symposium 29:

 Neonatology

 

 

Chairpersons:

Simon Lam,

Cheah Fook Choe

 

1.        Neonatal resuscitation: what’s new?

Samuel Rajadurai

 

2.        Targeting saturation in neonatal resuscitation - a paradigm shift Simon Lam

 

3.        Hypothermia therapy for perinatal asphyxia

Sailesh Gupta

4.      Neonatal 
         hypoglygemia: new  
         thoughts on old
         problem
         Muhammad Yazid 
         Jalaludin
 

 

 

 

Symposium 30:

Blood disorders

 

 

Chairpersons:

Shekhar Krishnan

Ong Gek Bee

 

1.        Thalassaemia - from Cooley to QALY

Bharat Agarwal

 

2.         Haemotological abnormalities in Down syndrome

Shekhar Krishnan

 

3.        The enigma of immune thrombocytopaenic purpura

 Bharat Agarwal

 

4.        Primary Haemophagocytic  Lymphohiostiocytosis

Lau Yu Lung

Symposium 31:

Allergies

 

 

Chairpersons:

Amir Hamzah Latiff

Joon Sung Lee

 

1.        Current advances in   allergy diagnostics

Pantipa  Chatchatee

 

2.        Optimal dietary management of food allergy in infants vs older children

Sami Bahna

3.        Primary prevention of  

Allergies

Hugo van Bever

Symposium 32:

Neglected tropical diseases

 

Chairpersons:

Rohit Agarwal

Koh Mia Tuang

 

 

1.        Review of regional problem

Terapong Tantawichien

 

2.        Leprosy - a problem unresolved

Rajeshwar Dayal

 

3.        Rabies

Terapong Tantawichien

Symposium 33:

Nursing Research & Quality Improvement Tools

 

Chairpersons:

Khatijah Abdullah

Susanna Lee

 

1.        Retrieving research evidence

Zheng Xianlan

 

2.        Using evidence to influence practice

Fiona Smith

 

3.        Using FMEA to improve safety in paediatric care

Pang Nguk Lan

 

4.        Obesity epidemic among Japanese urban primary school children

Yumiko Nakamura

1530-1600

Tea Break

 

Hall A

Hall B

Hall C

Hall D

Room  13

Room 14

1600-1730

Symposium 34:

State of Nutrition

 

Chairpersons:

Yati Soenarto,

Koe Swee Lee

 

1.        Overview of micronutrient deficiencies

Yang Xiaoguang

2.        Vitamin D deficiency old disease and new problems

Khor Geok Lin

 

3.        Iodine

Yang Xiaoguang

 

 

4.        Potential of Probiotics

Quak Seng Hock

Symposium 35:

Endocrinology

 

 

Chairpersons:

Fatimah Harun

Louis Low

 

1.        Precocious puberty

Suttipong Watcharasindh

 

2.     Which short children   

         would benefit from

         growth hormone

          treatment

Suttipong Watcharasindh

 

3.      Faltering growth

Anju Seth

 

4.       Prevention of

childhood obesity - why & how?

Louis Low

Symposium 36:

Paediatrician-surgeon partnership: improving outcomes

 

Chairpersons:

Zakaria Zahari

 

1.        Neonatal surgery: are we making progress?

Tan Hock Lim

2.        Tonsillectomy- vain practice?

Gretchen Novosro Locsin

 

3.        Minimally Invasive Surgery in Children: Where are we heading?

Tan Hock Lim

 

4.        Surgical management of neonatal cholestasis

Zakaria Zahari

Symposium 37: Immunology

Chairpersons:

Amir Hamzah Latiff

Hung Liang Choo

 

1.        Severe combined immunodeficiency – a  case for newborn screening

 Lau Yu Lung

2.        Challenges in the management of immunocompromised patients

Amir Hamzah Latiff

 

3.        Immunisation in immunocompromised children

Koh Mia Tuang

Symposium 38:

Supportive care and rehabilitation

 

Chairpersons:

Wong Chee Piau

 

1.        Recent Advances in Rehabilitation

Adam Scheinberg

 

2.        Virtual rehabilitation

Jane Galvin

 

3.        Optimal rehabilitation following head injury

Adam Scheinberg

 

4.        Inclusive education

Bong Muk Shin

Symposium 38(A):

Asia Pacific Paediatric Sleep Alliance (APPSA)

 

Chairpersons:

Rini Sekartini

  Huynh Thi Duy Huong

 

1.        Introduction to APPSA
Daniel Goh
Huynh Thi Duy Huong

2.        The value of sleep in children (importance of sleep and complications of sleep disorders)
Mahesh Babu Ramamurthy

3.        Common sleep problems in children
Nichara Ruangdaraganon

4.        Sleep habits and practices across Asia
Luis Rivera

5.        Sleep in clinical practice - what every physician needs to know and Do
 
Norzila Mohamed Zainudin

6.        Q & A

 

Room 4 & 5

APPNA Council meeting

 

 

Day 5: Wednesday, 12 September, 2012

Time

Room 12

Room 13

Room 2+3

Room 4+5

Room 8+9

0800-0900

Meet-the-expert 19

Practical approach to rickets

 

Moderator

Fatimah Harun

 

Expert

Anju Seth

 

Meet-the-expert 20

Respiratory support for the sick newborn

 

Moderator

Cheah Fook Choe

 

Experts

Simon Lam
Sailesh Gupta

 

Meet-the-expert 21

The snoring child

 

 

Moderator

Hasniah Abdul Latif

 

Expert

Daniel Goh

Meet-the-expert 22

Transition from paediatric to adult health care

 

Moderator

Thiyagar Nadarajaw

 

Expert

1.     Health of the World's Adolescents

       George Patton

 

2.     Transition from paediatric to

adult care

Susan Sawyer

Meet-the-expert 23

Nursing – Kangaroo care

 

 

Moderator

Julie Tan

 

Expert

Nancy Wong

 

 

Hall A

Hall B

Hall C

Hall D

Room 13

Room 14

0900-1030

 

Symposium 39:

Barriers to health equity

 

Chairpersons:

Wong Hiu Lei

Mohd Sham Kasim

 

1.        Issues of health professional education in the 21st century

Zulfiqar Bhutta

 

2.        Tropical diseases: an added burden in Asia Pacific

Somsak Lolekha

 

3.        Failure of vector control

Terapong Tantawichien

Symposium 40:

Special Interactive Symposium on Kernicterus

 

Moderator

Hans van Rostenberghe

 

·          Overview of problem

·          Remaining issues

·          New solutions


 

Symposium 41: Nosocomial Infections

 

Chairpersons:

Kamarul Azahar

Rohit Agarwal

 

 

1.        Healthcare associated infections in seriously ill children: a practical approach

 Tan Kah Kee

 

2.        Antibiotic resistance

Lee Ping-Ing

 

3.        Nosocomial infections in the immunocompromised

Koh Mia Tuang

     

 

 

Symposium 42: Behavioural Paediatrics

 

Chairpersons:

Raja Juanita Raja Lope

George Patton

 

 

1.        School truancy and other schooling issues: what’s missing?

Aili Hanim

 

2.        Autism – new developments

Neil Wigg

 

3.        ADHD -  recent advances

Neil Wigg

 

4.        Learning disability

Raja Juanita Raja Lope

 

Symposium 43:

How do I

 

Chairpersons:

Selva Kumar Sivappuniam

Ariffin Nasir

 

 

1.  Current Management of  

      Heart Failure in Infant &

      Children

     Sukman Tulus

 

2.  Treat pneumonia and its 

      complications

      Asiah Kassim

 

3.  Treat skin infections?

      Sabeera Begum

 

4.   Identify the risks for 

       metabolic syndromes   

       in children
       Muhammad Yazid 

       Jalaludin

Symposium 44:

Nursing: current challenges in the care of the children

 

Chairpersons:

Susanna Lee/Julie Tan

 

1.        Empowering the parents of children with chronic health conditions

Kate Armstrong

 

2.        Challenges of nursing chlldren of Sri Lanka

Lalanthi Ranasinghe

 

3.        Transport of sick children

Alison Fleming

 

4.        Serving the underserved children in Japan

Yumiko Nakamura

 

4.   Can community 

      paediatric

      programmes

      improve

      children's health?

      Francis Edwards

      Rushton, Jr.

1030-1100

Coffee Break

 

Hall A

1100-1130

 

Plenary 6

 

Chairperson: Zulkifli Ismail


Global Challenges for newborn survival: what paediatricians can do?

Zulfiqar Bhutta

1130-1200

Plenary 7

 

Chairperson: Nazeli Hamzah

 

Setting priorities and doing it right for children

Zulkifli Ismail

1200-1400

CLOSING CEREMONY

LUNCH

                     

 

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