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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.

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

Please point your browser to:
http://msh2011.haematology.org.my

The digital version of the MSH Newsletter for January 2011 is available for downloading.
Visit the Newsletter section of the MSH website

Date: 22-24 April 2011 - > NEW DATE: changed to 29 April - 1 May 2011, navigate to “MSH 2011 Scientific Meeting” from the link on your left of this page. We have updated details of The IXth Malaysian National Haematology Scientific Meeting at its info-page.

Click here to go to our dedicated webpage for 9MSH2011 KUCHING!

Place: Pullman Hotel, Kuching, Sarawak

Mark that Calendar!