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The Singapore Society of Haematology is organising the Second ASEAN Federation of Haematology Scientific Congress from 7th – 8th September 2012 at the Grand Copthorne Waterfront Hotel. Details on the congress can be viewed on our congress website www.ssh.org.sg/AFH2012

On behalf of the Asian Cellular Organization and the Thai Society of Hematology we have the great pleasure to invite you to attend the 3rd Meeting of Asian Cellular Therapy Organization (ACTO 2012) which will be held at Le Meridien, Chiangmai, Thailand during November 15-17, 2012. This meeting is intended to present the most up-to-date scientific discussion of the development of equipment and treatment in the field of cellular therapy on hematopoietic stem cell transplant, immunotherapy, regenerative medicine, gene therapy and regulatory issue. The scientific sessions will give participants a chance to share the latest knowledge and experience. The early registration and abstract submission for ACTO are now open. We also would like to invite you to present your research work as the oral or poster presentation in the meeting.
***The deadline for early registration and abstract submission is September 30, 2012.***
For further information please visit our website at http://www.acto2012.org
If you have any questions or need further assistance please contact the secretariat by email. We look forward to your participations in ACTO 2012 in this coming November.

Yours Sincerely,

Secretariat office of ACTO 2012
C/o The Thai Society of Hematology
10th Floor The Royal Golden Jubilee Building 2 Soi Soonvijai, New Petchburi Road Bangkok 10310, Thailand
Phone: + 662 716 5977
Fax: + 662 716 5978
Email: secretariat@acto2012.org

Notice from the Academy of Medicine Malaysia:

The Academy of Medicine of Malaysia will be organising the 46th Malaysia-Singapore Congress of Medicine from 12th to 14th July 2012 at the Shangri-La Hotel, Kuala Lumpur. This premier scientific meeting, which used to be organised alternately between the Academy of Medicine Malaysia and Academy of Medicine Singapore, now incorporates the Hong Kong Academy of Medicine. We are also pleased to have the major involvement of the Royal College of Physicians of London and the College of Physicians of Malaysia this year, giving both local and global perspective to this meeting. Thank you very much.

Rgds

YM Kong (Ms) Congress Secretariat

For more information, please visit http://mscm.acadmed.my/

We are pleased to announce that MSH is going to hold the MSH 2012 Mini Summit in the historic city of Melaka on 20-21 April 2012. The event is to be held in Holiday Inn Melaka and is targeting young and budding trainee clinical and lab haematologists, medical officers in internal medicine, nurses, pharmacists, lab scientific officers as well as lab medical technicians. This year, we will highlight common as well as uncommmon haematological problems encountered in day to day patient care. There will also be a “How I treat” series with experts sharing their way of practice.

Early bird registration on or before 15th February 2012:

RM 175 for doctors, pharmacists and scientific officers. (MSH Members RM 150)
RM 125 for nurses, paramedics, medical lab technicians. (MSH Members RM 100)

For registration after 15th February 2012:

RM 200 for doctors, pharmacists and scientific officers. (MSH Members RM 175)
RM 150 for nurses, paramedics, medical lab technicians. (MSH Members RM 125)

Registration is limited to the 1st 300 participants only.  We have received more than 300 participants already and thus registration is now closed. Sorry for the inconvenience.

Payment is to be made out to “Malaysian Society of Haematology”. Cheque or cash only accepted. TT and bank/ATM transfer can also be accepted provided the proof of transfer is emailed or faxed to the organizer earlier. PO, money order or postal order IS NOT ACCEPTED. The fee does not include accommodation or transportation.

Please follow the link below to register online

Register online
Registration closing date is 30 March 2012. Any enquiries please email msh2012minisummit@gmail.com

Tentative programme

20 April 2012 (8am-5pm)

Uncommon Haematology Disorders
- TTP
- Factor VIII inhibitor
- Haemophagocytosis
- Hypereosinophilic Syndromes

“How I treat…” series
ITP
Multiple Myeloma
Hodgkin’s Lymphoma

Lunch Symposium

Updates in Haematology
- New entities in DLBCL
- New anticoagulants
- Advances and controversies in Phi Negative Myeloproliferative Neoplasms

MSH Annual general meeting

Dinner Symposium - Updates in Treatment Guidelines in Essential Thrombocytosis

21 April 2012 (8am - 5pm)

Concurrent session - Lab Haematology
- Perinatal diagnosis of thalassaemias
- Paediatric Haematopathology
- Updates in G6PD
- Paediatric Thrombosis

Concurrent session - Clinical Haematology
- Issues in chemotherapy
– Unusual complications of chemotherapy
– Unusual infections
– Neutropaenic sepsis

- Counselling sessions
– How to approach CML
– Transplant counselling
– Haemophilia counselling
– End Of Life counselling

Lunch

Afternoon Session - Updates in Myelodysplastic Syndrome

Visit the website www.wix.com/msh2012minisummit/msh2012

Dear all,

Last night Janssen had a Myeloma update in KL Hilton and the talk was by Prof Philppe Moreau (done via Skype for the first time!) preceded by interesting case presentations by Dr Leong Kin Wah, Dr. Lau Lee Gong and Dr. Goh Kim Yen (thanks for the great effort!)
I mentioned a myeloma web app which you can download to your smartphone (iPhone, Android, Blackberry) - so I thought I’d repeat the website here once again:

http://oncopda.com

The app will run in your phone’s browser but if you save it as a short cut on the home screen (iPhone and Android) it will run even without an internet connection.
This site is still in development so expect more web apps over the coming months.

Alan Teh

Dear Esteemed Colleagues,

This is to remind you of the upcoming combined HAA2011-ISHAPD meeting in Sydney in October. We hope that you may be able to join us in what we hope will be a successful regional meeting. We would be grateful if it would be possible to email the details around the members of your national societies. The full information on the meeting are at http://www.haa-ap2011.org

With best wishes and hoping to see you in Sydney,

Michael Harvey
Chairman, Organising Committee
HAA2011-ISHAPD Meeting

It took me slightly longer than expected but finally I have been able to upload the photographs from the event. Due to the number of photographs, the photos were ported on my personal site, but the photographs are downloadable FOR FREE! Please follow this link to the site - http://www.harisrahman.com/msh-photographs/

Dear MSH members

BSG and the International Alliance for Biological Standardization (IABS) are organising the 7th IABS Symposium on Advances in Transfusion Safety in Singapore from 15-17 July 2011. The IABS symposium focuses on current issues in the areas of blood supply and transfusion safety, clinical transfusion as well as regulation and cell therapy. While we hope that participants will register for the full symposium, we are also opening the Sunday 17th July sessions (which are both clinical transfusion sessions) up as a day registration - this is so that non-transfusion medicine or blood bank related clinicians may attend this.

In addition to the IABS Symposium, HSA has also organised a tour of our blood bank at HSA, and then tours of two research facilities at the Biopolis - the Genome Institute of Singapore and the Nanotechnology Institute, followed by an afternoon symposium under its HSA Academy Series, on “Scientific Advances and Regulation in Blood and Cell Therapy” on 14th July. The HSA Academy Series symposium is jointly organised by the Health Products Regulatory Group and Blood Services Group, and aims to form a platform for dialogue between regulators and blood services; details of the afternoon symposium are found in the IABS website as well.

On the afternoon of the 17th July (as the IABS symposium ends at 1pm on Sunday 17th July), we are also organising a session for trainees from 2-5pm. This trainee session is intended for trainees in transfusuon medicine, haematology and other disciplines using a lot of blood/blood components. It is open to any trainee registered for the IABS symposium but limited to the first 25 applicants.

I am writing to ask you help in disseminating this email flyer and information to all your colleagues and trainees, as we hope that many of our Malaysian colleagues will join us for the meeting. As the early bird registration closes on 30th April 2011, we would encourage you and your staff to register before the end of April to enjoy the early registration benefit.

I also hope that you will take advantage of this event to come and visit us again in Singapore. All of us in BSG would be delighted to see you again !

The website for the meeting is at www.iabs-singapore.org!

Best regards,
Diana