First Announcement and Call for Papers

2009 International Symposium

for Pathophysiology Teaching (ISPT 2009)

--Teaching Pathophysiology and Clinical Physiology in the 21st Century

November 20 to November 23, 2009, Shanghai

With increasing study in disease mechanisms, pathophysiology is evolving rapidly and playing an ever more important role in educating medical students. It remains a challenge that how to innovate current teaching patterns and methods and to update teaching contents, which can be better based for clinical practice. To exchange worldwide experience in pathophysiology teaching reform, and to promote teaching quality, the International Society for Pathophysiology and Chinese Association of Pathophysiology will jointly hold the 2009 International Symposium for Pathophysiology Teaching. The theme of the symposium is “Teaching of Pathophysiology and Clinical Physiology in the 21st Century”.

The symposium will be chaired by Han Qide, president of International Society for Pathophysiology and president of Chinese Association of Pathophysiology, and hosted by the Second Military Medical University in Shanghai. There will be reports from leading pathophyiologists, clinical physiologists and relevant educators in basic and clinical medicine, as well as various forms of exchange of teaching experience. As organizers, we warmly welcome international pathophysiologist, pathologists, physiologist, educators, teaching managers and experts and scholars from other relevant fields, with or without papers, to meet in Shanghai, the biggest metropolis in China.

I. Organization

Organizer: International Society for Pathophysiology, Chinese Association of Pathophysiology
Sponsor: Shanghai Academy of Physiology
Host: Second Military Medical University, Shanghai

Chairman: Han, Qide
Vice Chairman: Monos, Emil (Hungary); Kovač, Zdenko (Croatia); Lu, Jian
Secretary General: Zhang, Youyi
Vice Secretary General: Wu, Liling

Organizing Committee
Director: Lu, Jian
Vice Director: Jin, Huiming
Members:
International: Hamet, Pavel (Canada), Arkhipenko, Yury V. (Russia); Greenwald, Stephen (England); Rosivall, László ( Hungary ); Hänninen, Otto Päiviö (Finland) ; Adeniyi, Kayode Oke (Nigeria); Atalay, Mustafa (Turkey); Benjelloun, Wail (Morocco); Cowley, A (USA); Djuric, Dragan M. (Serbia); Fry, Christopher (England) ; Grachev, Serguei V. ( Russia); Jakovljevic, Vladimir (Serbia); Kovač, Zdenko (Croatia); Laitinen, T(Finland); Mahmoudian, Massoud (Iran); Matsuo, Osamu (Japan); Meigal, Alexander Yu. (Russia); Morita, Hironobu (Japan); Navasardyan, Grizelda (Armenia); Orlov, Sergei N. (Canada); Rodriguez, RR( Argentina); Saeed, Amal M (Sudan); Sakata, Toshiie (Japan); Scholle, Hans-Christoph (Germany); Sejersted, Ole M. (Norway); Štrbák, Vladimír (Slovakia); Szollár, Lajos (Hungary); Vozeh, Frantisek (Czech Republic).
Local: Wang Jianzhi; Lu Daxiang; Zhu Guangjin; Gao Yuqi; Chen Qi; Cong Bin; Chen Guoqiang; Zhang Like; Zhang Haipeng; Wang Shuren; Zheng Shimin

Executive Organizing Committee
Sun, Liankun; Wang, Wantie; Hu, Weicheng; Zhu, Xueliang; Xu, Changqing; Yang, Huiling; Li, Shuqing; Zhang, Genbao; Zhu, Shigong; Li, Zhichao; Wang, Xuejiang; Gao, Weijuan; Chen, Sifeng; Yin, Lianhua; Li, Yongyu; Wei, Hongchang

II. Contents of the Symposium
 (I) Scientific Sessions
1. Current teaching of pathophysiology.
2. How to link teaching of pathophysiology with clinical practice.
3. Experience and lessons in development of textbooks of pathophysiology.
4. Experience of syllabus development of pathophysiology.
5. Exploration of teaching contents and methods of theoretical classes of pathophysiology.
6. Exploration of teaching contents and methods of experimental classes of pathophysiology.
7. Experience of teaching graduate students pathophysiology.
8. Development of multimedia teaching materials for pathophysiology.
(II) Other Activities
1. Illustrative classes.
2. Exhibition of textbooks, experiment materials, and CDs.
3. Exhibition of teaching devices.

III. Instructions for Abstracts and Submission

Instructions for Abstracts
Abstracts that fit in the theme of the Symposium are welcome. The abstracts must be written either in English or in Chinese, single-spaced with the font type Times New Roman and font size 10. Each abstract should fit on one A4 page, all margins set at 30mm and formatted as follows:
1.  Title: Use boldface, with initial letter in capital.
2.  Author(s): Underline the name of the presenting author. The order is: title, first name, middle initials, and last name.
3.  Affiliation: Include detailed mailing address and email address of the corresponding author.
4.  Text: Use a single paragraph, typed in single space. The entire abstract (title, authors, address and text) must fit within the space of 2400 characters (100 characters per line × 24 lines). Graphs or tables are not allowed.
5.  Abbreviations may be used. Give the full term when first mentioned followed by the abbreviation in parenthesis
6.  Abstracts will be published on Chinese Journal of Pathophysiology.
Instruction for Submission
1.  Deadline of abstract submission: September 10, 2009
2.  Submission will ONLY be accepted by E-mail: zjy1982.163@163.com (Zhao Jieying).
*Abstracts that fail to meet the above requirements will NOT be accepted.

IV. Working language
English

V. Registration Fee

VI. Contact Us
For more information on the symposium, please visit the official website of Chinese Association of Pathophysiology: www.caop.ac.cn
Contacts:
Lu Jian, 86-021-25070321
Zhao Jieying, 86-021-25070322, zjy1982.163@163.com