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
Chair : Tomohiko Moriyama, Kyushu University, JP 
Co-Chair : Thawatchai Akaraviputh, Mahidol University Siriraj Hospital, TH
Co-Chair : ShiawHooi Ho, University of Malaya Medical Centre, MY
Program Director : Jeffrey Jeronimo P. Domino, St. Luke’s Medical Center Quezon City, PH
Local Engineering Director : Kuriko Kudo, Kyushu University Hospital, JP
Secretary : Fumiko Nagamine, Kyushu University Hospital, JP
Secretariat Website :

 

The Medical WG was established in 2005 and has held various medical sessions at APAN, such as webinars, case conferences and live demonstrations since then. In addition, onsite training programs for hospital engineers have been organized during APAN meetings. We have provided the tips and techniques of venue setup and troubleshooting for telemedicine conferences to doctors and engineers in Asia and beyond.APAN is the international partnership of the National Research and Education Networks across the region and have provided high-speed network connectivity. We have taken advantage of this wonderful network to implement high-quality medical education programs.Please visit us and enjoy our activities!

 


Recent Activities
APAN62
2026.08.10-08.14  Medical Working Group sessions in Auckland, New Zealand (hybrid)
APAN Med-WG SpeciaL Interest Group (SIG) List
Program Name Category Organizer (Country) APAN Participation History
APAN Participation History
Advanced Endoscopy Endoscopy Farid Guliyev (AZ) APAN56 Program List
AIG (Asian Institute of Gastroenterology) Endoscopy Mohan Remchandani (IN) APAN40 Program List
AIIMS-India Technology Prateek Bobhate (IN) APAN59, 60 Program List
Cardiology/ APSC Cloud Webinar of Cardiovascular Diseases Cardiology Jiunn-Lee Lin (TW) APAN51, 52, 55 Program List
Creating Professions Others (Medical) Toru Oga (JP) APAN54 Program List
Dentistry 2 Dentistry Takeshi Mitsuyasu (JP) APAN41 Program List
Dentistry 1 Dentistry Aqsa Sjuhada (ID) APAN54, 55, 56, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62 Program List
Emergency Medicine Emergency Tomohiko Akahoshi (JP) APAN50 Program List
ECE (Endoscopy Club E-conference) Endoscopy Parit Mekaroonkamol (TH) APAN51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 60, 61, 62 Program List
Shiaw-Hooi Ho (MY) APAN41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50
Endoscopy Indonesia Endoscopy Dadang Makmun (ID) APAN40 Program List
Endoscopy Russia 2 Endoscopy Roman Kuvaev (RU) APAN48, 57, 58, 59 Program List
Endoscopy Russia 1 Endoscopy Sergey Kashin (RU) APAN57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62 Program List
Engineering Workshop Technology Kuriko Kudo (JP) APAN43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 56 Program List
EUS-Asia Endoscopy Nao Fujimori (JP) APAN61, 62 Program List
Genetic Counseling General Medicine Rajinder Kaur (IN) APAN53 Program List
Generative AI in Medicine Others (Medical) Muhammad Shahzad Aslam (MY) APAN58 Program List
HPB surgery Surgery Ho-Seong Han (KR) APAN54, 55, 56, 57 Program List
Human Genetics
Cancer Genomics
Others (Medical) Laila Anjuman Banu (BD) APAN61, 62 Program List
JBNU-S.Korea (Jeonbuk Nat’l Univ.) Others (Medical) Muhammad Kamal Hossain(KR) APAN61 Program List
JIPMER (Jawaharlal Institute of Post Graduate Medical Education and Research)
GI Surgery – India
Surgery Kalayarasan Raja(IN) APAN51, 52, 53, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61 Program List
APAN62 Program List
Latin Endoscopy Endoscopy Pablo Cortes (CL) APAN46 Program List
Medical Care (PGIMER (Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research) from APAN59) Pediatrics Inusha Panigrahi (IN) APAN56, 57 Medical Care Program List
APAN58, 59 PGIMER Program List
Medical Education Others (Medical) Arunima Chaudhuri (IN) APAN54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62 Program List
Medical Research General Medicine Tomohiko Moriyama (JP) APAN51, 52, 53 Program List
MIS (Minimally Invasive Surgery) Surgery Thawatchai Akaraviputh (TH) APAN49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62 Program List
Natural Products General Medicine Suresh Kumar Thakkar (IN) APAN56, 57, 58, 59 Program List
Dimple Sethi Chopra (IN) APAN60, 61, 62
Network and Technology in Dental Education and Practice Dentistry Deborah Sybil (IN) APAN53 Program List
Ophthalmology Ophthalmology Sheila John (IN) APAN54, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62 Program List
Pathology Others (Medical) Asitava Deb Roy (IN) APAN58, 59, 61 Program List
PBSA (Pakistan Biological Safety Association) Others (Medical) Saira Karimi (PK) APAN58, 59, 60, 61, 62 Program List
Portable Health Clinic (PHC) Healthcare Rafiqul Islam Maruf (JP) APAN53 Program List
Naoki Nakashima (JP) APAN45, 51
Public Health Healthcare Mohammad Kamruzzaman Khan (BD) APAN57, 59 Program List
Syed Billal Hossain (BD) APAN61, 62
Qualitative Research (AI)
HPE (Health Professions Education)
Others (Medical) Abhishek Das (IN) APAN61, 62 Program List
Respiratory Surgery Surgery Akinori Iwasaki (JP) APAN42 Program List
RMU (Rawalpindi Medical University, Pakistan) Others (Medical) Asma Umer Khayam (PK) APAN58 Program List
Rural Healthcare Healthcare Udaya Koirala (NP) APAN54, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62 Program List
Saroj Prasad Dhital (NP) APAN51, 52, 53
Sakura Science Planning Meeting Others (Medical) Shuji Shimizu (JP) APAN51 Program List
Technology 1 Technology Ti-Chuang  Chiang (TW) APAN45, 46, 47, 49 Program List
Yasuichi Kitamura (JP) APAN41
Mohamad Zahir Ahmad (MY) APAN50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 60, 61
Telehealth Telehealth Tanawan Samleerat Carraway (TH) APAN56, 57 Program List
Telemedicine Others (Medical) Alvin Marcelo (PH) APAN58, 59, 60 Program List
Richard Hizon (PH) APAN62
TNP&PALES Surgery Jeffrey Domino (PH) APAN56, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62 Program List
Telemedicine
IoMT
Digital Exposome
General Medicine Dimple Sethi Chopra (IN) APAN53, 54 Program List
VR demo session Technology Peter Shane (JP) APAN47 Program List
VRR/Gamification Technology Chinmay Shah (IN) APAN59, 60 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 Apollo Hospitals
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