On Tuesday, November 15 th 2016, Faculty of Medicine Universitas Indonesia (FKUI) held
The 1st Annual International Conference and Exhibition (ICE). This is the first international
event that was held at Indonesian Medical Education and Research Institute (IMERI)
building.
The event that was titled “Trans-disciplinary Approach to Primary Prevention of the
Diseases” was held in three days on November 14 th to 16 th 2016.
Manager of Research and Social Services of FKUI, Dr. dr. Budi Wiweko, SpOG(K), said
that this theme was chosen due to the recent world health issue that would not be able to
be solved by only relaying on health sciences.
“Reproductive issue, for example. Health problem on pregnant mothers could be resolved
by mobile applications for pregnant mothers, that need collaboration between health and
computer sciences for sure,” said him.
This trans-disciplinary theme was also reflected from 18 sub topics that were brought up
on this event, that all of them were the recent world health issue that could be explored
trans-disciplinary.
Those 18 sub topics were Stem Cell, Human Nutrition, Human Genetic, Human
Reproduction, Cardiovascular, Drug Development, Cancer, Neuroscience, Infectious
Disease, Medical Education, Medical Technology, Occupational Health, Sport Studies,
Epidemiology & Evidence Based Medicine, and Hydration Science.
Topics that were discused presented practitioners, academicians and researchers from
local and foreign countries, among of them were Prof. Teo Yik Ying (National University of
Singapore), Prof. J. Kevin Baird (Oxford Clinical Research Unit), and Anuraj Shankar
(Harvard School of Public Health).
Tokunori Yamamoto MD, PhD (Nagoya University), Prof. Tin Aung (National University of
Singapore), and Prof. dr Amin Soebandrio, SpMK, PhD (Eijkman Institute) were also
attended the event.
IMERI is the first medical education and research center in Indonesia. Dean of FKUI,
Ratna Sitompul, MD, Ph.D said that IMERI existed to answer world health issues in
Indonesia.
“80% of our vaccines, medicines and medical equipments are still imported. So we hope
that in the future, IMERI by its researches could be able to produce quality medicines and
vaccines that can be used by our country,” said her.
There are several medical research facilities that is exist in IMERI, among of them are
animal research facilities, molecular laboratory, and pre-test clinic.
