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"Advancing Access to Health Information and Publication: Shifting Paradigms, Trends and Innovations”

 

PROGRAMME

Time

August 25, 2015 - DAY 1

August 26, 2015 - DAY 2

700H-800H

Registration

Registration

800H-845H

Opening Ceremonies

Prof. Dr. Jaime C. Montoya
Prof. Dr. Carmencita David Padilla
Prof. Dr. Jose Florencio Lapena Jr.

Inspirational Plenary Lecture

Widening access to the road less travelled: The journey towards quality health information
Prof. Dr. Mary Ann Lansang

Turn-Over Ceremony

Prof. Dr. Chang Kok Hahm
Prof. Dr. John Arokiasamy
Prof. Dr. Kiyoshi Kitamura to Prof. Dr. Jose Florencio Lapena, Jr.

Keynote Plenary Address

Advancing Access to Health Information and Publication: Where are we headed, where have we gone?
Prof. Dr. Jose Florencio Lapena, Jr.

845H-900H

COFFEE BREAK

 

Luzon Ballroom

Mindanao Ballroom

Luzon Ballroom

Mindanao Ballroom

900H-1000H

A. AUTHORSHIP

B. DATA/CONTENT SHARING: AVAILABILITY AND ACCESS

E. POSTPUBLICATION ACCESS, DISSEMINATION, AND EXCHANGE

F. STRATEGIES TO IMPROVE THE QUALITY OF REPORTING AND PUBLICATION

 

1. Ghostwriting – Fabrication, Falsification, or Fool’s Gold?

Dr. Tyler Coupal

1. The development of tools for information access and data sharing in the Western Pacific Region

Ms. Marie Villemin Partow

1. Hidden structure behind the correlation between academic citation and share in social networks: Medicine vs. Others in PLoS Journals

Prof. Dr. Younsuk Lee

1. Continuing Medical Education to improve the quality of reporting and publication

Prof. Dr. Kiyoshi Kitamura

 

2. Conformity to the fourth criterion for authorship and accountability among regional journals

Prof. Dr. Wilfred Peh

2. The development of Index Medicus for South-East Asia Region (IMSEAR)

Mr. Charles Patrick Raby

2. Likes, shares, and tweets: The growing role of social media in biomedical literature

Prof. Dr. Iris Thiele Isip-Tan

2. Components of  education program for writing medical articles

Prof. Dr. Sung Tae Hong

 

3. International collaboration on scholarly research, writing, editing and publishing

Prof. Dr. Jeong Wook Seo

3. Reasons for irregular publication of academic institutions and medical specialty society journals: The APAME experience

Prof. Dr. Jose Ma. Avila

3. Letters and comments published in response to research: Postpublication peer review

Prof. Aik Saw

3. Improving uptake and implementation of the CONSORT Guidelines

Prof. Dr. Cecilia Maramba-Lazarte

   

 4. Indexing of author's names in medical journals published from selected countries in the Western Pacific and South-East Asia regions: An evaluation

Prof. Ma. Lindie Masalinto
Ms. Alma Prosperoso

 4. Impact vs. Impact factor among APAME journals

Dr. Amit Joshi

 4. CARE guidelines for case reports

Prof. Dr. Ma. Minerva Calimag

1000H-1030H

QUESTION AND ANSWER

1030H-1045H

COFFEE BREAK

1045H-1145H

C. EDITORIAL AND PEER REVIEW PROCESSES: APPLICATIONS FOR ASIA

D. TRAINING IN RESEARCH AND PUBLICATION

G. ETHICAL ISSUES AND MISCONDUCT IN THE APAME REGION

H. STATISTICS REGISTRIES IN RESEARCH

 

1. The editing and review process - common problems and challenges

Prof. Peter Munk

1. Evaluation of existing national medical writing workshops: Experiences from the Philippines, Nepal and India

Prof. Dr. Wilfred Peh
Prof. Dr. Jose Florencio Lapena
Prof. Dr. Rajeev Kumar
Prof. Arun Neopane

1. Editorial independence and commercial issues

Md. Sirajul Islam Molla

 

1. Statistical method: Which test when?

Dr. Chinmay Shah

 

2. Reflections of a new editor of a new journal: The Bhutan Health Journal

Dr. Phurb Dorji

2. Mentored peer review as an educational tool

Prof. Erlinda Palaganas

2. Scientific misconduct encountered by APAME journals: An online survey

Prof. Lai Meng Looi

2. When to use p Values and Confidence Intervals for Reporting Intergroup Comparisons

Dr. Patricia Khu

 

3. The current status of Myanmar's Health Science Journals

Prof. Kyi Kyi Thinn

3. Democratization of knowledge: The open access model of the Pacific Journal of Medical Sciences

Prof. Victor Temple

3. Retraction in the APAME region

Prof. Dr. Kiichiro Tsutani
Mr. Masamichi Kitagawa

3. Non-parametric statistics in research

Prof. Dr. Ricardo Guanzon

 

4. Publication bias in editorial and peer review processes

Dr. Natividad Almazan

4. Empowering editors, reviewers and authors in online publication: The BIMJ experience

Dr. Vui Heng Chong

4. Predatory journals in the APAME region

Prof. Peush Sahni

4. Health research registry: Philippine setting

Ms. Merlita Opena

1145H-1215H

QUESTION AND ANSWER

1215H-1315H

LUNCH BREAK

1315H-1445H

Authorship of Clinical Publications: Is there a way to quantify involvement and provide appropriate credit to contributors?

Dr. Trish Groves
Dr. Sam Mathew
Prof. Aik Saw
Mr. Martin Delahunty

REGIONAL ISSUES IN RESEARCH AND PUBLICATION

Supervising resident research
Prof. Dr. Jose Alvin Mojica

A cross-sectional online survey on the internet usage of Filipino Medical oncologists for continuing medical education
Dr. Ivan Noel Olegario

Vietnamese Journals on Regional Medical Indexes: an overview
Dr. Thanh Thao Nguyen

Trend of Similarity Index for Source Country, Article Type and Rejection Rate. A Story of The Korean Journal of Anesthesiology
Prof. Dr. Younsuk Lee

Elderly Research Participant's Comprehension of Informed Consent Information Equal in Written and Video Format
Prof. Odette Justo

Lexicogrammatical Features and Cognitive Structuring of Research Articles Published in Philippine Medical Journals: Input to Understanding Health Information and Publicaion
Dr. Felixberto Mercado

*WORKSHOP on Plagiarism Detection Tools (e.g. Turnitin, SafeAssign)

Prof. Anna Cherylle Ramos

MAHLAP LECTURE AND WORKSHOP ON RESEARCH ACCESS AND E-JOURNAL

Supporting research and publication

Ms. Nicola Foxlee

Standard information technology for e-journal platforms: JATS, DOI, ORCID and FundRef

Prof. Choon Shil Lee

1445H-1500H

COFFEE BREAK

1500H-1700H

*WORKSHOP on Developing and answering good research questions

Dr. Trish Groves

*WORKSHOP on Zotero

Dr. William Chong

*WORKSHOP on Technology Enabled Research

Prof. Dr. Ma. Minerva Calimag

 *All workshop participants are required to bring your own laptop.

 

 

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