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| Wahid
Al-Kharusi | | FRCS
| | President,
AFSM | Dear
Colleagues,
What a better setting than Amritsar for our 12th AFSM Annual Congress in
December 2009. It is a great privilege for me to welcome and invite you all to
Amritsar, one of the most beautiful, historic and unique city in India. Your participation
will enrich the congress and will be a seat for exchange of ideas, research on
perspective on health and competition.
The prevalence of lifestyle disorders
like diabetes, ischemic heart diseases, stroke, obesity and hypertension are becoming
more relevant in our part of the world - Asia. This directly affects our lifestyle
and impacts the sustainable development of our countries, leaving us not only
with great concerns for the future, but how to cope with the complications, hence
the role of Sports Medicine and Science in combating these disorders and promotion
of exercise and health has never been so relevant.
Our congress will
offer a platform for discussions, coordination, planning, research, capacity building,
knowledge sharing and transfer for vision 2020. It will bring a plethora of leading
Asian and Global experts to develop strategies addressing our concerns.
I take this opportunity to welcome you all to this innovative meeting and the
culturally rich city of Amritsar. | | |
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| Farasat
Hussain |
| M.S. |
| President,
IASM |
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| Jaspal
Sandhu | | M.S.,
DSM, FAIS, FASM | | Organizing
Secretary AFSMC | | Mandeep
Dhillon | M.S. | Joint
Organizing Secretary AFSMC |
Dear Colleagues,
On behalf of the Organizing Committee and the
Indian Association of Sports Medicine, it is a great pleasure to invite you to
the 12th Asian Federation of Sports Medicine Congress (AFSMC) being held on 5th
- 6th December, 2009 in Amritsar, India. This is the first international congress
of Sports Medicine in India.
The 12th AFSMC will be organized around
the theme 'Sports Medicine in Asia : Perspectives for Health & Competition.'
We would like to emphasize the role of Sports Medicine in the promotion of health
and physical fitness, besides its importance in the management of competitive
sports. Thus the program includes topics ranging from physical activity for health
promotion and active ageing as well as topics specific to competitive sports like
doping, sports injuries and rehabilitation. To bring these to you, we bring together
the various National Sports Medicine Federations and AFSM on a common platform
in order to develop a co-ordinated approach to health and sports sciences. The
congress will bring together leading global and regional experts in the field
of Sports Medicine & Sports Sciences, address actual issues in the field of
health promotion, sports injuries, rehabilitation, exercise physiology, sports
informatics and outline practical strategies for the future. In this congress
we would also like to stress the importance of a preventive approach to sports
injuries and serious global epidemics related to physical inactivity.
We have been successful in bringing together professionals of many liased
branches with our discipline to share their knowledge.
We hope the
stimulating program and your participation will mutually support all of us to
find new colleagues around Asia.
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