The 29th CMAAO General Assembly and 50th Council Meeting

The present issue of the JMAJ features the 29th Confederation of Medical Associations in Asia and Oceania (CMAAO) General Assembly and 50th Council Meeting held on September 24-26, 2014, in Manila, the Philippines, hosted by the Philippine Medical Association.

Of the 18 National Medical Associations (NMAs) of the CMAAO, 13 medical associations (Bangladesh, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand) took part in the meetings. The total number of participants in the General Assembly was about 70. Dr. Margaret Mungherera, President of the World Medical Association (WMA) and Dr. Robert Wah, President of the American Medical Association were invited as international guests.

At the 12th Taro Takemi Memorial Oration, Dr. Jaime C. Montoya, Professor V, Department of Medicine, University of the Philippines College of Medicine; Executive Director of the Philippine Council for Health Research and Development, gave a speech titled “Building a Regional Health Research and Innovation Network in ASEAN.” In a symposium which followed the Takemi Oration, each NMA delivered a presentation under the theme of “Health Database in an Information Society.” All of the participating NMAs gave their annual Country Report which followed the symposium.

At this General Assembly, there was no application for a new member to join the CMAAO.

New CMAAO President and Officers

Dr. Jose Asa Sabili (former President of the Philippine Medical Association) was installed as the 32nd President of CMAAO and received a Presidential medal from his predecessor, Dr. Vinay Aggarwal (former President of the Indian Medical Association). Dr. Rai Mra (President of the Myanmar Medical Association) was elected as President-Elect, and Dr. Prasert Sarnvivad (Medical Association of Thailand) was elected as the 1st Vice President. Dr. Dong Chun Shin (Korean Medical Association), Dr. Yeh Woei Chong (Singapore Medical Association) and Dr. Masami Ishii retained the posts of Chair, Vice-Chair of Council and Secretary General, respectively.

Officers, Councilors, Secretary General and Advisors of CMAAO (2014-2015/6)

President:

• Jose Asa Sabili (Philippines)

President-Elect:

• Rai Mra (Myanmar)

Immediate Past President:

• Vinay Aggarwal (India)

1st Vice President:

• Prasert Sarnvivad (Thailand)

2nd Vice President:

•   —    ( — )

Chair of Council:

• Dong Chun Shin (Korea)

Vice-Chair of Council:

• Yeh Woei Chong (Singapore)

Treasurer:

• Yee Shing Chan (Hong Kong)

Secretary General:

• Masami Ishii (Japan)

Assistant Secretary General:

• Hisashi Tsuruoka (Japan)

Councilors:

• Steve Hambleton (Australia)

• Mahmud Hasan (Bangladesh)

• Saint Saly (Cambodia)

• Yee Shing Chan (Hong Kong)

• Vinay Aggarwal (India)

• Ihsan Oetama (Indonesia)

• Yoshitake Yokokura (Japan)

• Dong Chun Shin (Korea)

• Nai Chi Chan (Macau)

• Krishna Kumar (Malaysia)

• Rai Mra (Myanmar)

• Anjani Kumar Jha (Nepal)

• Mark Peterson (New Zealand)

• Maria Minerva P. Calimag (Philippines)

• Yng Yng Bertha Woon (Singapore)

•   —  (Sri Lanka)

• Ching-Chuan Su (Taiwan)

• Prasert Sarnvivad (Thailand)

Advisors:

• Tai Joon Moon (Korea)

• Yung Tung Wu (Taiwan)

• Wonchat Subhachaturas (Thailand)

• Shinichi Murata (Japan)

From right: Dr. Wah, Dr. Calimag, Dr. Chan, Dr. Mungherera, Dr. Sabili, Dr. Ishii, Dr. Aggarwal, and Dr. Shin

Program

DAY 1: Wednesday, September 24, 2014

11:00-	Registration
11:30-12:30	Committee Meetings (if necessary)
13:30-14:30	Opening Ceremony and Inauguration of the new President of CMAAO
	1. Opening	Dr. Dong Chun Shin
	2. Roll Call	Dr. Masami Ishii
	3. Welcome Remarks	Dr. Minerva P. Calimag
	4. Opening Address	Dr. Vinay Aggarwal
	5. Inspirational Messages	Dr. Margaret Mungherera Dr. Robert Wah
	6. Installation of the 32nd President of CMAAO 2014-2015
	7. Inaugural Address by New President	Dr. Jose Asa Sabili
	8. Presidential Award to the Outgoing President	Dr. Vinay Aggarwal
	9. Group Photo
	10. Adjournment
14:30-15:00	Coffee Break
15:00-17:30	Council Meeting chaired by Dr. Shin
	1. Roll Call by Dr. Masami Ishii, Secretary General
	2. Opening Remarks
	3. Report of Secretary General
	4. Approval of Minutes of the 28th CMAAO General Assembly and 49th Council Meeting
	5. Report of the Treasurer by Dr. Alvin Chan, Treasurer
	6. Venue and Dates of the 30th CMAAO General Assembly and 51st Council Meeting
	7. Membership Application (if any)
	8. Report of the Committees (if any)
	9. Other Business
	10. Adjournment
19:00	Welcome Reception hosted by the Philippine Medical Association

DAY 2: Thursday, September 25, 2014

09:00-09:45	The 12th Taro Takemi Memorial Oration: Chaired by JMA Officer
	Orator: Dr. Jaime C. Montoya
	Professor V, Department of Medicine, University of the Philippines College of Medicine
	Executive Director of the Philippine Council for Health Research and Development
	1. Introduction of Orator
	2. Memorial Oration titled “Building and Sustaining a Regional Network for Health Research and Innovation in South-East Asia”
	3. Presentation of Plaque to the Orator
	4. Adjournment
09:45 -10:00	Coffee Break
10:00-12:30	Symposium: Health Database in an Information Society
10:00-10:20	Keynote speech 1 by Dr. Margaret Mungerhera, President of WMA
10:20-10:40	Keynote speech 2 by Dr. Robert Wah, President of AMA
10:40-12:30	Presentations from the NMAs
12:30-14:00	Lunch Break
14:00-14:45	Panel Discussion on Health Database
14:45-15:30	Coffee Break
	Develop a draft of the resolution committee on health database in an information society
15:30-17:30	Country Report of the NMAs
19:00	Dinner hosted by the Philippine Medical Association

DAY 3: Friday, September 26, 2014

09:00-12:00	Plenary Session chaired by President
	1. Approval of Minutes of the 28th CMAAO General Assembly held in New Delhi, India
	2. Report of the Council Meeting by Chair
	3. Approval of the Report of the Treasurer
	4. Approval of the Report of the Committees
	5. Discussion and adoption of the proposed CMAAO resolution on health database
	6. Appointment of the CMAAO Officers for 2014-2015
	6.1 President-elect . . . to be appointed by the host NMA in 2015
	6.2 Two Vice Presidents . . .	1st Vice-President from the host NMA in 2016
		2nd Vice-President, optional
	7. Venue and Dates of the 30th CMAAO General Assembly and 51st Council Meeting 2015
	8. Venue and Dates of the 31st CMAAO General Assembly and 52nd Council Meeting 2016
	9. Membership Applications (if any)
	10. Other Business: Theme of the symposium for the CMAAO General Assembly in 2015
	11. Closing Remarks
	12. Adjournment
12:00-13:00	Lunch Break
14:00-18:00	City Tour hosted by the Philippine Medical Association
19:00	Farewell Dinner hosted by the Philippine Medical Association

The Confederation of Medical Associations in Asia and Oceania

(Established since 1956)

Official Homepage http://www.cmaao.org/

Current membership: 18 national medical associations

(As of December, 2014)

Australian Medical Association P.O. Box 6090, ACT 2604 Kingston Australia Tel: +61-2-6270-5460 Fax: +61-2-6270-5499 E-mail: president@ama.com.au atrimmer@ama.com.au Website: http://www.ama.com.au

Bangladesh Medical Association BMA Bhaban, 15/2 Topkhana Road 1000 Dhaka, Bangladesh Tel: +88-02-9555522 Fax: +88-02-9566060 E-mail: bma.org.bd@gmail.com Website: http://www.bma.org.bd

Cambodian Medical Association c/o National Center for Tuberculosis and Leprosy Control (CENAT) St. 278/95, Sangkat Boeung Keng Kang 2 Phnom Penh, Cambodia Tel: +855-11816347 Fax: +855-17522360 E-mail: saint.saly@yahoo.com

Hong Kong Medical Association Duke of Windsor Social Service Building 5th Floor, 15 Hennessy Road Hong Kong, China Tel: +852-2527-8285 Fax: +852-2865-0943 E-mail: hkma@hkma.org Website: http://www.hkma.org

Indian Medical Association Indraprastha Marg 110 002 New Delhi, India Tel: +91-11-23370009 Fax: +91-11-23379470 E-mail: hsg@ima-india.org Website: http://www.ima-india.org

Indonesian Medical Association JI. Samratulangi No.29 10350 Jakarta, Indonesia Tel: +62-21-3150679/3900277 Fax: +62-21-390-0473 E-mail: dr.ihsanoetama@idionline.org Website: http://www.idionline.org

Japan Medical Association 2-28-16 Honkomagome, Bunkyo-ku Tokyo 113-8621, Japan Tel: +81-3-3946-2121 Fax: +81-3-3946-6295 E-mail: jmaintl@po.med.or.jp Website: http://www.med.or.jp/english

Korean Medical Association 46-gil 33 Ichon-ro, Yongsan-gu Seoul 140-721, Korea Tel: +82-2-794-2474 Fax: +82-2-793-9190/795-1345 E-mail: intl@kma.org Website: http://www.kma.org/english/1_greetings.php

Macau Medical Association 1/F., D Hoi Van Bldg. 25 Praia Ponte e Horta, Macau Tel: +853-66878705 Fax: +853-28937650 E-mail: channaichi@yahoo.com.hk Website: http://www.maomp.com/

Malaysian Medical Association 4th Floor, MMA House, 124 Jalan Pahang 53000 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Tel: +60-3-4041-1375 Fax: +60-3-4041-8187 E-mail: info@mma.org.my Website: http://www.mma.org.my

Myanmar Medical Association No.249, Theinbyu Road Mingalartaungnyunt Township Yangon Region, Myanmar Tel: +95-01-380899, 388097, 394141 Fax: +95-01-378863 E-mail: mmacorg@gmail.com Website: http://www.mmacentral.org

Nepal Medical Association Siddhi Sadan, Post Box 189 Exhibition Road, Katmandu, Nepal Tel: +977-1-4225860/4231825 Fax: +977-1-4225300 E-mail: mail@nma.org.np Website: http://www.nma.org.np

New Zealand Medical Association P.O. Box 156, Level 13 Greenock House 39 The Terrace, Wellington 1, New Zealand Tel: +64-4-472-4741 Fax: +64-4-471-0838 E-mail: nzma@nzma.org.nz Website: http://www.nzma.org.nz

Philippine Medical Association 2/F Administration Bldg. PMA Compound North Avenue, 1105 Quezon City, Philippines Tel: +63-2-929-63-66 Fax: +63-2-929-69-51 E-mail: philmedas@yahoo.com Website: http://www.philippinemedicalassociation.org

Singapore Medical Association Alumni Medical Centre, Level 2 2 College Road, 169850, Singapore Tel: +65-6223-1264 Fax: +65-6224-7827 E-mail: sma@sma.org.sg Website: http://www.sma.org.sg

Sri Lanka Medical Association Wijerama House, 6 Wijerama Mawatha 00700 Colombo, Sri Lanka Tel: +94-112-693-324 Fax: +94-112-698-802 E-mail: office@slma.lk Website: http://www.slma.lk

Taiwan Medical Association 9F, No.29 Sec.1, An-Ho Road 10688 Taipei, Taiwan Tel: +886-2-2752-7286 Fax: +886-2-2771-8392 E-mail: intl@tma.tw Website: http://www.tma.tw/EN_tma/index.asp

The Medical Association of Thailand 4th Floor Royal Golden Jubilee Building 2 Soi Soonvijai, New Petchburi Rd Huay Kwang, Bangkapi Bangkok 10310, Thailand Tel: 662-314-4333, 662-318-8170 Fax: 662-314-6305 E-mail: math@loxinfo.co.th Website: http://www.mat.or.th

Secretary General: Dr. Masami Ishii Secretariat: Japan Medical Association 2-28-16 Honkomagome, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8621, Japan Tel: +81-3-3942-6489 Fax: +81-3-3946-6295 E-mail: jmaintl@po.med.or.jp