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Contents: The 5th Asia Pacific IAP Congress Singapore 27-31 May 2007 Hunterian and Wellcome Museums of the Royal College of Surgeons of England
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The 5th Asia Pacific IAP Congress
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The first meeting of this regional group was held in Sydney
in 1997 as part of the Annual Scientific Meeting of the Australasian Division
of the IAP. From this very small beginning the meetings have grown in
numbers of delegates and in quality of the meeting. The second meeting
was in Seoul in 1999, then in Bangkok in 2003 and then Beijing 2005, and
now in the exciting city of Singapore. These meetings have allowed regional
pathologists to have the chance to hear and meet some of the leading figures
in the various sub specialties. Younger pathologists have had the opportunity
to meet and work with these eminent people in presenting cases at seminars
and workshops, and in informal discussions at the social functions and
during the tea and meal breaks. The benefits that such exposure brings
for one’s younger colleagues is one of the satisfactions for the
organizers who work so hard to bring these meetings to their own countries,
and to make them successful.
Above: Committee members Asia Pacific
Group. Front: Harilal (India), Gilbert Chiang (Sing), Tony Leong (Aust),
Bob Osamura (Jap), HK Ng (HK), Angela Chong (Sing). Back: Robin Cooke
(Aust), Zenya Naito (Jap) , Jiang Gu(China), xx, Pongsak Wannakrairot
(Thailand), Bob Ecsktein (Aust), ST Himawan (Indonesia), Osamu Matsubara
(Jap) Enjojo (Indonesia) S.M. Jung (Taiwan), Gary Tse (HK).
Entrance to the old Raffles Hotel. This used to be on the waterfront before the land between it and the sea was reclaimed.
Above: Entrance to the Conference hotel with some of the buildings in the CBD in the background.
Orchids in the national orchid garden.
Gilbert and his organizing team. Puay Hoon Tan, Yap Wai Ming, Ajula Thomas, Gilbert Chiang, Aileen Wee, Teh Ming, Angela Chong.
Puay Hoon Tan, Head of Anatomical
Pathology, Singapore General Hospital, opening the Conference.
A shop in Orchard Rd. The keynote address was given by Emeritus Professor K. Shanmugaratnam.
Ratnam has been called the “Father of pathology” in Singapore.
At the age of 86 he is not as physically agile as he was when I first
met him in 1967 but his mind is just as agile as it was then and his lecture
demonstrated why he earned this respectful title. He did not mention that
he had worked for the Singapore Government for 50 years in various capacities
– Head of Pathology, Dean of the Faculty, Founder of the Cancer
Registry, Chairman of various WHO and other international committees by
which he became the international face of pathology in Singapore etc.
Instead he gave a thoughtful commentary on some of the current topics
of discussion e.g. who “owns” pathology specimens? Globalization
has resulted in the standardization of nomenclature of disease and of
tumours in particular. Telepathology which is possible, but do we need
it? Or should it be used for only such things as frozen sections, or for
consultations. Whole slide scanning for record storage and routine reporting,
but is that practical when it takes up so much computer memory. The great
increase in molecular testing has changed the way reports are made, and
has helped to enhance the role of pathologists as true consultants rather
than just the authors of written reports.
Above: Osamu Matsubara (Jap), Bob Eckstein (Aus), Helenice Gobbi (Brazil), Roma Cooke (Aust), Angela Chong (Sing).
Above: Urologic Pathology “Meet the Expert Session”. Brett Delahunt (New Zealand), John Srigley (Canada), Liang Cheng (USA), John Eble (USA), Jonathan Epstein (USA), Puay Hoon Tan (Sing).
Above: Cytology Speakers: Gary Tse (HK), Richard de
May (USA), Marianne Priyanthi Kumarasinghe (Sing), now (Aust), Bastiaan
de Boer (Aust), Jaqueline Hwang (Sing), Marion Saville (Aust), Andrew
Field (Aust).
Gilbert Chiang, Angela Chong and K Satku, Minister for Health and an orthopaedic surgeon who opened the meeting.
Three graduates from the Uni of Colombo medical school, Sri Lanka in 1968. They had not been together since graduation until now. P.U. (Teli) Telesinghe (now in Brunei), Sujatha Fernando and Sareth Seneviratne (both from Australia).
Gastrointestinal Pathology: Teh Ming (Sing), Yap Wai Ming (Sing), Joel Greenson (USA) Greg Lauwers (USA). (Joel serenaded his audience during his talk with a song on celiac disease and one on eosinophilic oesophagitis which he accompanied with his guitar).
Indonesian delegates: Nurjati Chairani Siregar, Sutisna Himawan, Sindrawati, Rino Pattiata and Endang SR Hardjolukito.
Above: Prof. K Satku, Minister for Health, opening the conference.
Korean delegates: Yeon-Lim Suh, Insum Kim, Megan Lim, Yeong-Jin Choi, Kwan Kum Young
Pulmonary Pathology: Lim Tow Keang, William Travers, (USA), Andrew Nicholson (UK), Kitaichi Mansonori (Japan), Angela Chong (Sing)
Gynaecologic Pathology Speakers: Mike Wells (UK), Teri Longacre (USA), Anjula Thomas (Sing), Jaime Prat (Spain), Philip Ip, (HK), Inny Busmanis (Sing).
Angela Chong, Osamu Matsubara and trade delegates
Infectious Diseases: Fann Wu, Xiang-Yang Han, Belinda Yen-Lieberman, Robin Cooke, Phyllis Della-Latta, David Zhang, Wun-Ju Shieh. (All from USA except Robin Cooke from Aust)
Haematolymphoid Pathology: Ivy Sng, Tony Lim (Sing), Ng Siok Bian, (Sing), Wayne Than (USA), Peh Suat Cheng (Malaysia), Leonard Tan (Sing), Megan Lim (USA), Elinitoba Johnson (USA).
Hepatobiliary Pathology: Alastair Burt UK, Neil Theise USA, Yap Wai Ming, Aileen Wee (Sing), Pichet Sampalanukul (Thailand).
Molecular Biology speakers: Richie Soong, Singapore, Irene Ng, Hong Kong, Manuel Salto-Tellez, Singapore, Natalie Wong, Singapore, Marc Ladanyi, USA.
Two delegates from Malaysia.
The Padang for cricket and official functions, with the cricket club and the old and new Supreme Court buildings fronting the green space. |
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Speakers and organisers at the meeting
of the Ukranian Division in Kiev May 2007 (Courtesy of George Kontogeorgos). |
| Hunterian and Wellcome Museums of the Royal College of Surgeons of England |
Hunterian Museum. Entrance with portraits of William Hunter on the left and John Hunter on the right. In 1799 the government purchased the collection of John Hunter
which they presented to the College. This formed the basis of the Hunterian
Collection, which has since been supplemented by others including an Odontological
Collection and the natural history collections of Richard Owen. The museum
displays thousands of anatomical specimens, including the Evelyn tables
and the skeleton of the “Irish giant” Charles Byrne, and many
surgical instruments. Many specimens were destroyed by the 1941 bomb.
As well as the Hunterian Museum, the College houses the Wellcome Museum
of Anatomy and Pathology. The College museums reopened in February 2005
after a major refurbishment, which created a new “crystal”
gallery of steel and glass. The Hunterian Museum is open to the public
without charge, but the Wellcome Museum is only open to medical practitioners
and students.
Crystal Gallery which contains some of the original John Hunter specimens.
Hunterian Museum large prostate with false passages in the urethra from catheterisation using a metal rod. (original Hunter specimen circa 1770)
Hunterian Museum. Very large prostate (original Hunter
specimen circa 1770)
Hunterian Museum. School students attending a workshop. |
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| Apology for a misrepresentation that occurred in the previous edition of the News Bulletin. |
Dear Prof. Cooke,
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