
Mission
To eliminate global health disparities through telemedicine
Vision
We provide high-quality online education that enhances medical practitioners’ knowledge and skills worldwide.
We foster a global network of healthcare professionals for sharing medical knowledge and best practices.
We bridge the gap between countries and regions with varying medical resources through telemedicine initiatives.
We promote exchanging innovative medical techniques and research to improve global healthcare.
Please watch the video of the past session as a sample:
Those who are interested in organizing or presenting in APAN Medical sessions, please read the following carefully
1. All Medical Working Group (MWG) sessions at APAN are done virtually. It is not a face-to-face meeting.
2. The following presentation types are not accepted:
___On-site demonstration, On-site hands-on training as such
3. Please organize and apply for a 90-min session as much as possible.
4. The session organizer is responsible for:
___a) deciding the topic
___b) assigning the Chair (Co-Chair(s), and engineer(s) if any)
___c) finding (at least 3) speakers who give presentations on the topic
___d) finding own audience and distributing the meeting information to them
5. When the proposal is accepted, there will be a few MWG meetings, and your participation is required.
6. We may post your session on the Internet. Sessions will be streamed on YouTube and made available for later viewing.
For the people who want to propose single/stand-alone presentations such as “Lightning (5 min),” “Standard (10 min)” and “Long (20 min)”:
1. You will present in “Other Medical Topics” session.
2. A time slot for your presentation is assigned by MWG secretariat.
3. The proposal might be rejected for various reasons.
For the newcomers
The MWG’s Call for Proposals will be opened at a slightly different time and duration than the APAN.
To receive the announcement from the secretariat, email to [email protected] with your name, email address, country, and complete institution name.
Board members
Recent Activities
APAN62
2026.08.10-08.14 Medical Working Group sessions in Auckland, New Zealand (hybrid)
| GMT +12:00 | Mon, 10th Aug | Tue, 11th Aug | Wed, 12th Aug |
Thu, 13th Aug | Fri, 14th Aug |
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| 09:00-10:30 | Opening Ceremony | Closing Ceremony | |||||
| 11:00-12:30 | Digital Exposome | General Assy | |||||
| 13:30-15:00 | HPE (Health Professions Education) | PBSA-Pakistan | OTHER Topics | ||||
| 15:30-17:00 | Natural Products | Dentistry | Cancer Genomics | MIS (Minimally Invasive Surgery) | |||
| 17:30-19:00 | Medical Education | ECE (The 35th Endoscopy Club E-conference) | MIS by TNP/ PALES | Public Health | |||
| 19:30-21:00 | Rural Healthcare | JIPMER /GI Surgery | Endoscopy/ Russia 1 | Ophthalmology | |||
| EUS-Asia (21st) | |||||||
APAN Med-WG SpeciaL Interest Group (SIG) List
| Program Name | Category | Organizer (Country) | APAN Participation History |
| Advanced Endoscopy | Endoscopy | Farid Guliyev (AZ) | Program List |
| AIG (Asian Institute of Gastroenterology) | Endoscopy | Mohan Remchandani (IN) | Program List |
| AIIMS-India | Technology | Prateek Bobhate (IN) | Program List |
| Cardiology/ APSC Cloud Webinar of Cardiovascular Diseases | Cardiology | Jiunn-Lee Lin (TW) | Program List |
| Creating Profession | Others (Medical) | Toru Oga (JP) | Program List |
| Dentistry 2 | Dentistry | Takeshi Mitsuyasu (JP) | Program List |
| Dentistry 1 | Dentistry | Aqsa Sjuhada (ID) | Program List |
| Emergency Medicine | Emergency | Tomohiko Akahoshi (JP) | Program List |
| ECE (Endoscopy Club E-conference) | Endoscopy | Parit Mekaroonkamol (TH) | Program List |
| Endoscopy Indonesia | Endoscopy | Dadang Makmun (ID) | Program List |
| Endoscopy Russia 2 | Endoscopy | Roman Kuvaev (RU) | Program List |
| Endoscopy Russia 1 | Endoscopy | Sergey Kashin (RU) | Program List |
| Engineering Workshop | Technology | Kuriko Kudo (JP) | Program List |
| EUS-Asia | Endoscopy | Nao Fujimori (JP) | Program List |
| Genetic Counseling | General Medicine | Rajinder Kaur (IN) | Program List |
| Generative AI in Medicine | Others (Medical) | Muhammad Shahzad Aslam (MY) | Program List |
| HPB surgery | Surgery | Ho-Seong Han (KR) | Program List |
| Human Genetics | Others (Medical) | Laila Anjuman Banu | Program List |
| JBNU-S.Korea Jeonbuk Nat’l Univ. |
Qualitative Research (AI)Others (Medical) | Muhammad Kamal Hossain(KR) | Program List |
| JIPMER (Jawaharlal Institute of Post Graduate Medical Education and Research) | Surgery | Kalayarasan R (IN) | Program List |
| Latin Endoscopy | Endoscopy | Pablo Cortes (CL) | Program List |
| Medical Care (PGIMER (Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research) from APAN59) | Pediatrics | Inusha Panigrahi (IN) | Medical Care Program List |
| Medical Education | Others (Medical) | Arunima Chaudhuri (IN) | Program List |
| Medical Research | General Medicine | Tomohiko Moriyama (JP) | Program List |
| MIS (Minimally Invasive Surgery) | Surgery | Thawatchai Akaraviputh (TH) | Program List |
| Natural Products | General Medicine | Suresh Kumar Thakkar (IN) | Program List |
| Dimple Sethi Chopra (IN) | |||
| Network and Technology in Dental Education and Practice | Dentistry | Deborah Sybil (IN) | Program List |
| Ophthalmology | Ophthalmology | Sheila John (IN) | Program List |
| Pathology | Others (Medical) | Asitava Deb Roy (IN) | Program List |
| PBSA (Pakistan Biological Safety Association) | Others (Medical) | Saira Karimi (PK) | Program List |
| Portable Health Clinic (PHC) | Healthcare | Rafiqul Islam Maruf (JP) | Program List |
| Public Health | Healthcare | Mohammad Kamruzzaman Khan (BD) | Program List |
| Syed Billal Hossain | |||
| Qualitative Research (AI) | Others (Medical) | Abhishek Das (IN) | Program List |
| Respiratory Surgery | Surgery | Akinori Iwasaki (JP) | Program List |
| RMU (Rawalpindi Medical University, Pakistan) | Others (Medical) | Asma Umer Khayam (PK) | Program List |
| Rural Healthcare | Healthcare | Udaya Koirala (NP) | Program List |
| Saroj Prasad Dhital (NP) | |||
| Sakura Science Planning Meeting | Others (Medical) | Shuji Shimizu (JP) | Program List |
| Technology 1 | Technology | Ti-Chuang Chiang (TW) Yasuichi Kitamura (JP) Mohamad Zahir Ahmad (MY) |
Program List |
| Telehealth | Telehealth | Tanawan Samleerat Carraway (TH) | Program List |
| Telemedicine | Others (Medical) | Alvin Marcelo (PH) | Program List |
| TNP&PALES | Surgery | Jeffrey Domino (PH) | Program List |
| Traditional Medicine | General Medicine | Dimple Sethi Chopra (IN) | Program List |
| VR demo session | Technology | Peter Shane (JP) | Program List |
| VRR/Gamification | Technology | Chinmay Shah (IN) | Program List |
Organization

APAN Med-WG Board Members and Steering Committee Members
| Board Members | Institution |
| Tomohiko Moriyama / Chair | Kyushu University Hospital |
| Thawatchai Akaraviputh / Co-chair | Mahidol University Siriraj Hospital |
| ShiawHooi Ho/ Co-chair | University of Malaya |
| Jeffrey Jeronimo P. Domino I Program director | St. Luke’s Medical Center |
| Kuriko Kudo/ Local engineering director | Kyushu University Hospital |
| Steering Committee Members | Institution |
| Ti-Chuang Chiang | National Taiwan University |
| Chakaphan Sookcharoen | The Thai Red Cross Society |
| Le Thanh Ni | Cho Ray Hospital |
| Mohamad Zahir Ahmad | University of Malaya |
| Bani Lara | Advanced Science and Technology Institute |
| Tunggul Laksono | Brawijaya University |
| Aria Kekalih | University of Indonesia |
| Satyanarayana Ungarala | Asian Institute of Gastroenterology |
| Kalayarasan Raja | JIPMER |
| Mohammad Kamruzzaman Khan | Mymensingh Medical College |
| Qiang Wang | Peking Union Medical College Hospital |
| Christopher Khor | Singapore General Hospital |
| Cao Duc Minh | NASATl Office |
| Udaya Koirala | PHECT Nepal |
| Karma Jamyang | DrukREN |
| Tun Tun Thein | Yangon General Hospital |
| Secretary | Institution |
| Fumiko Nagamine | Kyushu University Hospital |
