Drs CHAN Wai-ming & CHU Chung-ming
Chairmen of the ARS Organizing Committee
The Hong Kong Thoracic Society and the American College of Chest Physicians (Hong Kong and Macau Chapter) jointly organized the Autumn Respiratory Seminar (ARS), which was successful held in November this year at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre.
More than 400 participants attended this one-day meeting on the 25th November. A wide scope of interesting and practical topics was delivered by a distinguished panel of local and overseas speakers.
The ARS began with a symposium of “Interstitial Lung Diseases”. It was followed by a concurrent symposium consisting of one section of “Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease” together with another one on “Ethical Issues & Palliative Care in Respiratory Medicine”, and both were well attended by the audience.
Following a lunch symposium on “Advances in Pharmacological Treatment of COPD” given by a well renowned expert from UK, Professor Wisia Wedzicha, we had an afternoon session of “Interactive Grand Round”. A total of four interesting cases were presented, one of which was selected from the various well presented summaries of previous Society’s clinical meetings. The audience was very enthusiastic throughout the entire section and has learned a lot of useful knowledge from the chairmen, Professor Lam Wah-kit, Dr So Shun-yang, Dr Christopher Lai and Dr Chan Hok-sum, during the case discussion led by them.
The ASM ended with a symposium on a very popular topic recently: “Interventional Pulmonology”, including “Update on Endobronchial Ultrasound” and “The Clinical Role of Medical Thoracoscopy/ Pleuroscopy”.
