Conference News: Women's Health & Asian Traditional Medicine, 23-25 August 2005

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Dear Colleagues,

 

 

 

I am writing to update you on the latest news about the First International

Conference on Women’s Health and Asian Traditional Medicine (WHAT Medicine),

which will take place at the Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre, Malaysia, from

23-25 August 2005.

 

 

 

NEW DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACTS

 

 

 

The deadline for receipt of abstracts has now been extended to 31 May 2005.

Please submit as early as possible if you wish to be considered as a speaker, as

the number of oral presentations will be limited.

 

 

 

An online abstract submission form for both oral and poster presentations is

available at:

 

http://www.whatmedicine.org/abstractsubmission/products/speaker/index.php

 

If you experience any difficulties with the online registration and submission

process, please contact enquiry.

 

 

 

Abstracts that are accepted will be published in the conference handbook and

proceedings, and should be submitted as full papers by 22 July 2005.

 

 

 

 

 

PRESS LAUNCH

 

 

 

The press launch for WHAT Medicine took place in the Auditorium at the Tropical

Botanical Garden of the University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, on 20 April 2005.

This was well attended by 80 members of the media and related organizations.

Please see the press release below for more information.

 

 

 

CONFERENCE POSTER

 

 

 

A downloadable conference poster (PDF format) is now available online at:

 

http://www.whatmedicine.org/Programmemain.htm

 

If you experience a problem in downloading, you may find it easier to use the

text version of the website. Even if you are unable to attend the conference

yourself, we would appreciate your help in publicising it to colleagues by

displaying the poster prominently in your workplace!

 

 

 

EXHIBITION

 

 

 

We still have some booths remaining at the WHAT Medicine exhibition. To take

advantage of the special offer for international exhibitors, which includes a 3m

x 3m booth and five nights' accommodation at a four-star hotel for US$2,000,

please contact exhibition. Potential exhibitors should apply

as soon as possible, and no later than 10 July 2005.

 

 

 

MAILING LIST

 

 

 

If you would prefer to be removed from the WHAT Medicine mailing list, please

reply to this message, typing ‘remove’ in the subject line.

 

 

 

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Wednesday 20th April, 2005

PRESS RELEASE

 

FIRST INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON WOMEN’S HEALTH AND ASIAN TRADITIONAL MEDICINE

(www.whatmedicine.org).

 

 

 

From 23-25 August 2005, Malaysia will host the world’s first international

conference and exhibition to address the role of traditional medicine in women’s

healthcare.

 

 

 

BACKGROUND: Recognising that women are the major users of complementary and

traditional medicine worldwide and that Asian traditional medical knowledge

offers unique understandings of women’s physiology, health needs and means for

the prevention and cure of disease, the conference will be held in Malaysia,

home to the major healthcare traditions of Asia – Malay, Chinese and Indian.

 

 

 

Every day, throughout the world, women make decisions about what medicines to

use for their own health and that of their family: the question they face is

“what medicine to use – modern medicine, traditional medicine, or both? And in

what way?” And Asian traditional medicine, according to the new World Health

Organization Global Atlas on Traditional, Complementary & Alternative Medicine,

is the most globalized of the world’s traditional healthcare approaches. ‘WHAT

Medicine’ is thus a suitable acronym for this landmark international conference.

 

 

 

THEMES: WHAT Medicine will bring together leading regional and international

scientists and traditional healthcare experts to showcase the use of Asian

traditional medicine by women worldwide. It will highlight the available

healthcare options for women’s health concerns such as reproductive health,

ageing, and skin health and disease.

 

 

 

WHAT Medicine will also address safety considerations and the preventative and

lifestyle enhancing potential of Asia’s traditional healthcare approaches. While

there have been many conferences and much research on women’s health - and on

traditional medicine - there has been no meeting till now that combines both

perspectives to understand the healthcare choices of the majority of the world’s

women.

 

 

 

VENUE & SPONSORS: The conference will be hosted at the new Kuala Lumpur

Convention Centre by the Journal of Tropical Medicinal Plants and supported by

the Malaysian Ministry of Science Technology & Innovation, the Ministry of

Women, Family and Community Development, the Ministry of Art, Culture & Heritage

and by Malaysia Tourism.

 

 

 

The Journal of Tropical Medicinal Plants (JTMP), the world’s first and only

journal to focus exclusively on research into tropical medicinal plants, is

guided by leading local and international experts and is distributed to centres

of scientific and herbal excellence worldwide. The journal is an entirely

Malaysian effort and is supported by Tropical Botanics and the Malaysian Herbal

Corporation. WHAT Medicine is held in celebration of JTMP’s 5th Anniversary. The

opening ceremony at the KLCC Convention Centre is just one week before Merdeka,

Malaysia’s Independence Day, and the closing ceremony is on Malaysian Woman’s

Day.

 

 

 

PARTICIPATION OF LEADING INTERNATIONAL SCIENTISTS AND EXPERTS: The conference is

being supported by a high level international team of scientists and traditional

medicine practitioners and is co-chaired by: Professor Gerard Bodeker of Oxford

University Medical School & the Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia

University, and former Chair of the Commonwealth Working Group on Traditional &

Complementary Medicine; and Professor Fredi Kronenberg, Director of the

Rosenthal Centre for Alternative & Complementary Medicine in the College of

Physicians & Surgeons, Columbia University, USA.

 

 

 

Professor Maryanne Legato, a cardiologist and clinical professor at Columbia

University, New York, is founder of the important new field of gender-specific

medicine and will be a keynote speaker at WHAT Medicine. Prof Rui-Juan Xiu,

another keynote speaker, is Director of China’s National Institute of

Microcirculation in Beijing, and has pioneered the use of traditional medicine

in combating major diseases. She has also done extensive research on the effects

of traditional in treating skin disease. Dr Padma Venkat, Joint of India’s National Medicinal Plants Herbarium in Bangalore, has

studied the use of kitchen herbal gardens. She will present important new

research on more than 2 million Indian village families showing that family

health improves significantly and healthcare costs are reduced when rural

families grow their own medicinal plants and use them in everyday healthcare.

 

 

 

500 international participants are expected from Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand,

Indonesia, Sri Lanka, India, China, United Kingdom, Australia and the United

States.

 

 

 

PARTICIPATION OF LEADING INTERNATIONAL JOURNALS: As a result of the uniqueness

of the event, WHAT Medicine is being supported by two internationally accredited

journals: The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine

(http://www.liebert.com/acm) and the Journal of Women’s Health

(http://www.liebert.com/jwh)

 

 

 

PARTICIPATION OF MALAYSIA’S WOMEN LEADERS: WHAT Medicine will be opened on the

morning of 23 August 2005 by the wife of Malaysia’s Prime Minister, YBhg Datin

Seri Endon binti Mahmood. YBhg Datin Seri Rosmah, the wife of the Deputy Prime

Minister has agreed to officially close the event. Tun Siti Hasmah Mohd Ali will

be the guest of honour at the Gala Dinner. Her Royal Highness, the Raja

Permaisuri Agung, has graciously consented to visit the exhibition booths.

 

 

 

EXHIBITION: Malaysian, S.E. Asian and international companies will be

represented in the WHAT Medicine Exhibition, featuring the best of Asian

traditional healthcare products and services for women worldwide.

 

 

 

INTEREST OF MEDIA: Already international media have expressed interest in WHAT

Medicine and extensive regional and international coverage is expected.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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