DATE 2nd Announcement Conference Days: 10th to 12th May 2018 Malaysian VENUE Orthopaedic Association Annual Scientific Meeting / Equatorial Hotel Penang Annual General Meeting THEME Bugs, Bones www.moa-home.com/moa2018 & Surgeons’ Moans LIKE OUR PAGE & FOLLOW US ON FACEBOOK MOA 2018 Bugs, Bones & Surgeons’ Moans 1 MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT OF MESSAGE FROM ORGANISING & MALAYSIAN ORTHOPAEDIC ASSOCIATION (MOA) SCIENTIFIC CHAIRMAN OF THE 48th MALAYSIAN ORTHOPAEDIC ASSOCIATION On behalf of the Malaysian Orthopaedic Association (MOA), it is my pleasure to ANNUAL SCIENTIFIC MEETING 2018 invite you to the 48th MOA Annual Scientific Meeting (MOA ASM) which will be held in the island city state of Penang from the 10th to 12th May 2018. The upcoming 48th MOA ASM 2018 will be held in Penang, the Pearl of the Orient. The annual scientific meeting of MOA has always been a highlight meeting of We are in the midst of organising the meeting and the scientific committee is busy the year. This meeting has grown in numbers in tandem with the growth of our putting the programme together. “Bugs, Bones and Surgeons’ Moans” is the association and orthopaedics in Malaysia. MOA organises more than just the theme of the meeting and we will be focusing on infection in Orthopaedics and annual MOA ASM as part of our association’s role is to ensure that there are plenty its various subspecialties as well as its many facets. The difficulty of diagnosis, of opportunities for our members to continue their professional developments. its management and prevention of surgical site infection and the awful infected Thus, I encourage everyone of our annual members and fellow orthopaedic implant. The theme is a word play on the aide memoire for clinical features of surgeons who have yet signed up as members, to join MOA and stay updated and hypercalcaemia (bones, stones, groans and psychic moans). More importantly, contribute to the developments of our profession in this country. “Bugs, Bones and Surgeons’ Moans” underscores the challenges the orthopaedic community faces. The emergence of multi-resistant bacteria in orthopaedics, the In MOA ASM 2018, we are bringing you a very scientific focused theme of “Bugs, destruction of bone and defects it creates and the increasing complexity, cost and Bones and Surgeons’ Moans”. Our Organising Chairman and Scientific Chairman’s morbidity for the patient that translate to surgeon despair. In my subspeciality, it goal is to bring urgent attention to an issue which bugs all of us. There has been is the most common cause for early revision and the most dreaded. The forward much new informations, strategies of treatment and new drugs and medical from a consensus meeting on periprosthetic joint infection which should apply devices introduced in past few years. Latest technologies such as nano-technology broadly to orthopaedics states that “It is not an exaggeration to claim that fear to combat the bugs, new drug deliveries system and current systematic approaches of infection lives in the hearts of every surgeon who steps into the operating by prominent authorities in this field will be discussed. Join us at this meeting to room daily”. refresh your knowledge and pick up new arsenal to fight against bugs in your daily practice. By better managing infection in our hospitals, we will help ensure better In prevention, more education can be done. Operating theatre personnel and patient care, reduce the readmissions of secondary infections and significantly scrub nurses, junior doctors and assistants, anaesthetists, ward staff, infectious save on financial and psychosocial costs. diseases physicians, microbiologists all the way up to hospital administrators who make policy and operating procedures play a role and we hope this MOA meeting For our younger fraternity members and those who have strong interest in will be well attended by them too. research, keep the abstract submissions coming in. In 47th MOA ASM 2017, we received a record high number of 464 abstracts submitted; evidence that the The theme is somewhat catchy but sombre and quite in contrast to our celebratory research culture in Malaysia orthopaedic has reach an outstanding level. Our theme last year in which we celebrated the 50th year of the MOA and looked back Scientific Committee has indeed raised the standards of accepted abstracts to be at the 50 years of our society and reexamined time-tested orthopaedic surgical presented as either free paper oral or poster presentation formats. I encourage procedures. The 2018 meeting in Penang promises to be a memorable meeting you to submit early and submit your best work. “Celebrate what you have at a well laid out conference venue. Put the dates in your calendar - 10th to 12th accomplished but raise the bar each time you succeed.” May 2018. In the near future, all medical officers and specialists will have to collect CPD On a last note, we will be having electronic posters which will cycle through the points as part of the requirements for us to renew our annual practicing license posters as well as consoles for those who want to read specific posters. Over and specialist registrations. The minimum number of CPD points is 20 points and the years the numbers of poster submissions has been increasing and last year our MOA ASM 2018 will be structured to ensure that our MOA members and all there were 290 posters displayed. This year we will be limiting it to 200. Please participants will be able to collect their full 20 CPD points from this meeting. submit early. The 48th MOA ASM 2018 would be a comprehensive and informative meeting Prof Dr Azhar Mahmood Merican under the leadership of the Organising Chairman, Prof Dr Azhar Mahmood Organising Chairman Merican and Scientific Chairman, Assoc Prof Dr Tengku Muzaffar Tengku Mohamed 48th MOA ASM 2018 Shihabudin and their capable scientific committee. Assoc Prof Dr Tengku Muzaffar Tengku Mohamed Shihabudin The conference venue will be held in the Pearl of The Orient, Penang. During your Scientific Chairman free time, do indulge in our favourite Malaysian past time of food and shopping 48th MOA ASM 2018 in Penang. I look forward to seeing all of you in May 2018! 48th MOA ASM 2018 ORGANISING & SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE Prof Dr Wan Faisham Nu’man Wan Ismail President Malaysian Orthopaedic Association Organising Chairman Trauma Prof Dr Azhar Mahmood Merican Dato’ Paduka Dr Abdul Rauf Ahmad Dr Simmrat Singh Jagdis Singh MALAYSIAN ORTHOPAEDIC ASSOCIATION Scientific Chairman OFFICE BEARERS 2017 / 2018 Assoc Prof Dr Tengku Muzaffar Orthopaedic Education Tengku Mohamed Shihabudin Prof Dr Tunku Kamarul Zaman Tunku Zainol Abidin President Council Members Scientific Committee Section Heads Prof Dr Wan Faisham Nu’man Assoc Prof Dr Abdul Halim Abd Rashid Arthroplasty LLRS Wan Ismail Assoc Prof Dr Nor Hazla Dr Shahrul Hisham Sulaiman Dr Rukmanikanthan Shanmugam Mohamed Haflah President-Elect Foot & Ankle Humanitarian Prof Dr Azhar Mahmood Merican Editorial Secretary Dr Mohd Asni Alias Assoc Prof Dr Nor Hazla Prof Dr Tunku Kamarul Zaman Mohamed Haflah Immediate Past President Tunku Zainol Abidin Hand Dato’ Dr Azmi Baharudin Prof Dr Manohar Arumugam Bugs & Drugs Hon Auditors Dr Alwi B. Muhd Besari @ Hashim Hon Secretary Dato’ Sri Dr Zulkharnain Ismail Oncology Assoc Prof Dr Rina N. Karunakaran Dr Chye Ping Ching Dr Abdul Yazid Mohd Kassim Assoc Prof Dr Azura Mansor Nursing Hon Treasurer Orthopaedic Research Matron Zuria Hj Din Datuk Dr Mohd Asri Abd Ghapar Assoc Prof Dr Kamarul Ariffin Khalid Paramedic Paediatrics MA Norhilmi Abdul Hamid Dr Roshan Gunalan AV Spine Dr Shams Amir Shamsul Bahar Prof Dr Mohd Imran Yusof Sports Dato’ Dr Badrul Akmal Hisham Md Yusoff 2 48th Annual Scientific Meeting / Annual General Meeting 2018 SUBSPECIALTY INTEREST GROUP MEETINGS • Meetings will be held at rooms labelled Meeting Room 1, Meeting Room 2, and Meeting Room 3 and Lecture Hall D in Equatorial Hotel, Penang, Malaysia. • Subspecialty Interest Group Meeting rooms and schedules may be subject to change. Please refer to the INFORMATION BOARD during conference for the latest updates. • If you wish to secure a room for a meeting, kindly check with the Conference Secretariat at [email protected]. Subspecialty Interest Group Meetings Date Time (hrs) Venue LLRS 10th May 2018 1100 – 1230 Meeting Room 1 Foot & Ankle 10th May 2018 1100 – 1230 Meeting Room 2 ASEAN Paediatrics Orthopaedic Meeting 10th May 2018 1100 – 1300 Meeting Room 3 ASEAN OA Education Committee 10th May 2018 1400 - 1730 Meeting Room 1 Orthopaedic Research 10th May 2018 1400 – 1530 Meeting Room 2 Spine 10th May 2018 1400 – 1530 Meeting Room 3 Oncology 10th May 2018 1600 - 1730 Meeting Room 2 Paediatrics 11th May 2018 1100 – 1230 Lecture Hall D Trauma 11th May 2018 1100 – 1230 Meeting Room 1 Hand 11th May 2018 1100 – 1230 Meeting Room 2 Sports 11th May 2018 1100 – 1230 Meeting Room 3 ASEAN OA Council Meeting 11th May 2018 1230 - 1630 Meeting Room 2 Arthroplasty 11th May 2018 1430 - 1600 Meeting Room 1 MOA Annual General Meeting 11th May 2018 1630 - 1800 Lecture Hall D Bugs, Bones & Surgeons’ Moans 3 INTERNATIONAL & NATIONAL FACULTY Dr Abd Razak Muhamad Dr Jeremy Prakash Dr Rizal Imran Alwi Malaysia Malaysia Malaysia Prof Dr Abdul Halim Abd Rashid Prof Dr Jim Richards Dr Rohaman Tasarib Malaysia UK Malaysia Assoc Prof Dr Abdul Nawfar Sadagatullah Dr Kamarul Al Haqq Abdul Ghani Dr Roshan Gunalan Malaysia Malaysia Malaysia Dato’ Paduka Dr Abdul Rauf Ahmad Dr Lee Keat Hwa Prof Dr Ruby Husain Malaysia Malaysia Malaysia Prof Dr Abdul Razak Sulaiman Dr Low