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Symposium


Pharmacogenomics

 Do you know?? An individual genetic inherence affects the body response to some drugs. Pharmacogenomics holds the promise that drugs might one day be tailor-made for individuals and adapted to each person's own genetic makeup. Environment, diet, age, lifestyle, and state of health all can influence a person's response to medicines, but understanding an individual genetic makeup is thought to be the key to creating personalized drugs with greater efficacy and safety. It has benefits such as more accurate methods of determining appropriate drug dosages, better and safer drugs at the first go, and lead to a decrease in the overall cost of healthcare

Thai Herbal Medicine

Diseases have always been a constant problem plaguing mankind since time memorial. Primitive man, and to a certain extent modern man, turned to black magic and supernatural power for remedies. It is real providence that the curative properties of some herbs had been discovered and exploited in early human history. Over the years the knowledge of herbal medicine has grown. In modern times, a wide range of herbs have been sought for their healing effects and used more and more, while the resort to black magic has been in a steady decline.

 

Thailand abounds with medicinal herbs and many of which have been successfully employed to cure the Thais of a wide range of sicknesses. Some herbs with mild medicinal values such as ginger, lemon grass, and bitter lemon are skillfully incorporated into traditional cuisine.
      The importance of herbal medicine has been increasingly recognized by the public, and international as well as national organizations. Systematic research is being carried out by several local laboratories with the purpose of supplementing modern medicine.

Workshop

Traditional Thai Herbal Compress

Experience Traditional Thai herbal compress contains a special Thai herb mixture. With the hot compresses the skin pores open and the herb mixture can do their agreeable and antiseptic effect to complete. In addition, the blend of traditional herbs used in these compresses has simultaneously a relaxing and invigorating effect on the body and mind, soothing sore and over-worked muscles while giving a boost for the body's energy level. The compresses are used to relieve sprains, strains of muscles and tendons, stiffness in the joints, and inflammation and to stimulate the circulation of the blood. Let’s make and try it yourself. A must for any first comers to Thailand.

Pharmacist’s role in improvement of patient’s compliance

What will happen if an Alzheimer patient with many comorbidities receive a very long list of drugs or a Metabolic syndrome patient receives hypertension, lipid lowering, and DM medication all at once. He or she will certainly forget or miss at least one dose or does not take some of such numerous drugs. These lead to the physicians being unable to manage and control their diseases. You are a pharmacist, what do you do to improve patient’s compliance. Do you have any ideas or interventions to help them such as machines, tools, or anything else? Let’s make it true in "Unlimited Ideas Thinking Contest"


Poster exhibition

This is an opportunity for each country to present and share ideas about their student organization activities for promoting health.

  • Theme : “Pharmacy role in rational drug use”
  • Poster size : A1 33.6 x 23.4 inches Or you can make 2 A3 size … free of ideas.
  • 3 poster per each national associations
  • Abstracts of 300 words must be sent with a contact name and email to inforc@apps2008.com before 31 May 2008. (MS-Word 97 and above)
  • The RCs will sent notifications back before 10th June 2008.
  • All posters must be submitted at the Registration desk on 27th June 2008 in the APPS.

Oral presentation

This is an open section for pharmacy students to present their research in the pharmaceutical profession.

  • There will be 3 presentation selected for the oral presentation.
  • Each Pharmacy student project has a presentation time of 20 minutes and questioning for 10 minutes.
  • Abstracts of 300 words must be sent with a contact name and email to inforc@apps2008.com before 31st May 2008. (MS-Word 97 and above)
  • The main topics needed : Objective, Methodology, Conclusion and Discussion
  • Selection will be based on the abstract of each project : Content and Academic interest
  • Notification of selected projects will be sent back to the student before 10th June 2008.

Patient Counseling Event at Asia Pacific Pharmaceutical Symposium

Introduction: The patient counseling event (PCE) is an opportunity for students to develop their communication skills. It focuses on developing a trustful patient-pharmacist relationship as a part of the pharmaceutical care that is provided. Each participant will receive feedback regarding their counseling to assist them in developing effective techniques for the future. Students are highly recommended to participate as this will help them develop an effective structured routine to speak to counseling patients. By focusing on counseling rather than pharmaceutical knowledge for this event, it will demonstrate the importance of counseling to the students and its necessity in the practice of pharmacy.