Conference Programme

Pre-Conference

Day 1Wednesday, 17 Nov 2021

12:00PM - 12:40PM

Pre-Conference Webinar Series [Click to Join Here]
Title : How do we practice cultural competency and humility in palliative care?
Dr Lee Ai Chong, University Malaya

Title : Teaching culturally competent health care in neonatal medicine
Associate Professor Dr Azanna Ahmad Kamar, University Malaya

12:40PM - 01:00PM

Webinar Q&A session

Day 2Thursday, 18 Nov 2021

12:00PM - 12:40PM

Pre-Conference Webinar Series [Click to Join Here]
Title : Bioethics of managing death: Comparisons between NIPAH epidemic (1998-9) and COVID-19 pandemic (2020-21) in Malaysia
Dato’ Dr Patrick S K Tan, Anesthetist and Intensivist

Title : Is it time to introduce legislation on advance decisions in Malaysia?
Dr Mark Kiak Min Tan, Universiti Teknologi MARA

12:40PM - 01:00PM

Webinar Q&A session

Day 3Friday, 19 Nov 2021

12:00PM - 12:40PM

Pre-Conference Webinar Series [Click to Join Here]
Title : Social impact of a pandemic on the marginalised: can we ever be realistic in resolving the issues of equitable health care access?
Associate Professor Dr Erwin Jiayuan Khoo, International Medical University

Title : Solidarity in crisis - the ethical appeal and realistic approaches to healthcare professional’s refusal to manage patients with COVID-19
Dr Hui Siu Tan, Ampang Hospital

12:40PM - 01:00PM

Webinar Q&A session
01:00PM - 03:00PM

Lunch & Poster Viewing
03:00PM - 03:05PM

Welcome remarks [Click to Join Here]

Associate Professor Dr Erwin Jiayuan Khoo, International Medical University
03:05PM - 03:30PM

Opening Keynote
Title : Ethics, Politics, Policies and Health: What COVID-19 Shows Us
Dr Khor Swee Kheng, Associate Fellow, Chatham House, United Kingdom
03:30PM - 05:30PM

Oral papers presentations

05:30PM - 07:00PM

MRCPCH & M. Med (Paediatrics) Clinical Examination Preparatory Workshop: Pearls from Malaysian RCPCH & M. Med Examiners - A workshop for medical students, house officers, medical officers and paediatric trainees that focuses on the postgraduate examination’s “communication and ‘ethics’ stations”
Associate Professor Datuk Dr Soo Thian Lian & Dr Irene Cheah

Conference

Day 4Saturday, 20 Nov 2021

08:00AM - 08:10AM

Poster Viewing

08:10AM - 08:50AM

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Keynote address - Can we afford diversity in response to COVID-19 vaccine mandates?
Professor John Lantos, Professor of Pediatrics, University of Missouri, Kansas City, Founding Director of the Children’s Mercy Hospital Bioethics Centre & Glasnapp Family Foundation Endowed Chair in Bioethics, US.

08:50AM - 09:00AM

Break & Poster Viewing

09:00AM - 11:20AM

Clinical Ethics Consultation in the Neonatal Unit / Clinical Ethics Consultation in the Paediatric Ward – Workshop
Plenaries, Interactive Case Discussions
Professor John Lantos & Professor Brian Carter, Chairman, Department of Medical Humanities & Bioethics, University of Missouri-Kansas City, School of Medicine, US.

11:20AM - 12:00PM

Ethics and Values - Caught or Taught?
Plenary and Q&A session
Associate Professor Marion Aw, Department of Paediatrics, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, Singapore
12:00PM - 01:00PM

Lunch & Poster Viewing

01:00PM - 03:20PM

Medical Ethics – Workshop
Have you ever been in a situation where you felt that there was an ethical issue with a patient, and you weren’t sure how to manage it? Ethical issues are commonplace in the practice of medicine. This session is designed to get you thinking about ethical issues in practice and develop ways of working through clinical problems.
Professor Paul Komesaroff, Physician and Professor of Medicine at Monash University and Executive Director of Global Reconciliation, Australia

03:20PM - 04:00PM

Break & Poster Viewing

04:00PM - 04:40PM

Ethics and Health Communication in English: Tackling the Consequences of Colonial Era Linguicism and Racism
Plenary and Q&A session
Professor Saroj Jayasinghe, Consultant at Faculty of Medicine, Sabragamuwa University, Sri Lanka and Founder Head, Department of Medical Humanities University of Colombo, Sri Lanka

04:40PM - 05:20PM

What’s Up With Everyone?
A campaign led by Professor Crawford with academy-award winning Aardman Animations (Shaun the Sheep), research teams at the universities of Nottingham, Loughborough, and London School of Economics and Politics. This campaign is a series of animated stories and companion website that aims to increase young people’s mental health literacy.
Professor Paul Crawford, School of Nursing, The University of Nottingham, Derby, UK.

05:20PM - 06:00PM

Effectively incorporating key ethical concepts into residency training
Plenary and Q&A session
Associate Professor Dr Stefan Kutzsche, Physician and special Plenary and Q&A session advisor for Education at Oslo University Hospital, Norway

Day 5Sunday, 21 Nov 2021

08:00AM - 08:10AM

Poster Viewing
08:10AM - 08:50AM

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Keynote address - Science in the spotlight: knowledge, culture and politics in the era of COVID
Professor Paul Komesaroff
08:50AM - 09:00AM

Break & Poster Viewing

09:00AM - 11:20AM

Clinical Ethics Consultation with the Adolescent / Clinical Ethics Consultation in Palliative Care – Workshop
Plenaries, Interactive Case Discussions and Q&A session
Professor John Lantos & Professor Brian Carter

11:20AM - 12:00PM

Break & Poster Viewing

12:00PM - 01:30PM

Consent is a dialogue, not a form.

Consent and assent in paediatric research in low-income settings
Associate Professor Dr Cheah Phaik Yeong, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford.

Involving families and children in online research
Associate Professor Dr Calvin W.L. Ho, Faculty of Law, Co-Director of Centre for Medical Ethics and Law, University of Hong Kong.

When can the child speak for herself? The limits of parental consent from a legal perspective
Associate Professor Dr Mark Taylor, Health Law and Regulation and Deputy Director of the research group HeLEX, Melbourne Law School

Q&A session

01:30PM - 02:00PM

Prize-giving for free paper sessions, debriefing, focus group discussion and closing