The Asia Pacific Association of Pediatric Allergy Respirology and Immunology
The Asia Pacific Association of Pediatric Allergy Respirology and Immunology
Warner, J. O.
2005-06-01 00:00:00
I had the great honour and pleasure of attending the 8th Congress of the Asia Pacific Association of Pediatric Allergy Respirology and Immunology (APAPARI) in Seoul, Korea, which was combined with the 10th Anniversary Congress of the Korean Academy of Pediatric Allergy and Respiratory Disease (KAPARD). The meeting was an enormous success and attended by over 500 delegates. The quality of the science was outstanding and it was a great pleasure to witness the enthusiasm of pediatricians interested in allergy, respirology and immunology from throughout the Asia Pacific region. Professor Sang Il Lee, President of APAPARI and Professor Joon Song Lee, Congress President and President of KAPARD are to be congratulated on the outstanding congress. APAPARI was founded shortly after an international pediatric congress held in Sydney, Australia in 1997. While the rest of the world hesitated to establish an association of pediatric allergists and respirologists, those from the Asia Pacific region grasped the nettle and established their society without hesitation. They were well aware that there was an urgent need to create an organisation which would act as an advocate for children with allergic, immunological and respiratory disorders. In eight short years, they have achieved an enormous amount in raising the standards of clinical practice, promoting clinical and basic research, in advocacy and in education. They have linked together developed and developing countries and have fostered contact with clinicians in the less well economically endowed countries of the region. Indeed, through bursaries they have been able to facilitate the attendance of doctors from relatively deprived areas. One can only hope that the rest of us will be able to achieve as much in the future. It is an example to us all of what we must now achieve through the more recently established International Pediatric Respiratory Allergy and Immunology Society (IPRAIS). The Asia Pacific region is the most populous in the world and contains people that live in many different environmental conditions with a range of climates, altitudes and allergen exposures. Also, the socio‐economic status of communities varies enormously. As a consequence, the region offers enormous opportunities to conduct epidemiological research to begin to disentangle the many risk factors that are associated with the development of allergic disorders. Thus, the congress theme was pediatric allergies in the Asia Pacific region. It included presentations from as diverse environments as New Zealand, Australia, Japan, China, Thailand, Indonesia, Korea, The Philippines, Malaysia, Singapore and Taiwan. There were also free papers from Bangledesh, Uzbekistan and India to name but a few. I sincerely hope that we will be able to learn lessons from this very successful collaboration and that it will eventually become a worldwide enterprise.
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The Asia Pacific Association of Pediatric Allergy Respirology and Immunology
I had the great honour and pleasure of attending the 8th Congress of the Asia Pacific Association of Pediatric Allergy Respirology and Immunology (APAPARI) in Seoul, Korea, which was combined with the 10th Anniversary Congress of the Korean Academy of Pediatric Allergy and Respiratory Disease (KAPARD). The meeting was an enormous success and attended by over 500 delegates. The quality of the science was outstanding and it was a great pleasure to witness the enthusiasm of pediatricians interested in allergy, respirology and immunology from throughout the Asia Pacific region. Professor Sang Il Lee, President of APAPARI and Professor Joon Song Lee, Congress President and President of KAPARD are to be congratulated on the outstanding congress. APAPARI was founded shortly after an international pediatric congress held in Sydney, Australia in 1997. While the rest of the world hesitated to establish an association of pediatric allergists and respirologists, those from the Asia Pacific region grasped the nettle and established their society without hesitation. They were well aware that there was an urgent need to create an organisation which would act as an advocate for children with allergic, immunological and respiratory disorders. In eight short years, they have achieved an enormous amount in raising the standards of clinical practice, promoting clinical and basic research, in advocacy and in education. They have linked together developed and developing countries and have fostered contact with clinicians in the less well economically endowed countries of the region. Indeed, through bursaries they have been able to facilitate the attendance of doctors from relatively deprived areas. One can only hope that the rest of us will be able to achieve as much in the future. It is an example to us all of what we must now achieve through the more recently established International Pediatric Respiratory Allergy and Immunology Society (IPRAIS). The Asia Pacific region is the most populous in the world and contains people that live in many different environmental conditions with a range of climates, altitudes and allergen exposures. Also, the socio‐economic status of communities varies enormously. As a consequence, the region offers enormous opportunities to conduct epidemiological research to begin to disentangle the many risk factors that are associated with the development of allergic disorders. Thus, the congress theme was pediatric allergies in the Asia Pacific region. It included presentations from as diverse environments as New Zealand, Australia, Japan, China, Thailand, Indonesia, Korea, The Philippines, Malaysia, Singapore and Taiwan. There were also free papers from Bangledesh, Uzbekistan and India to name but a few. I sincerely hope that we will be able to learn lessons from this very successful collaboration and that it will eventually become a worldwide enterprise.
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