About APAME 2015

Booking and Reservation

To avail the discounted rate below, please contact Gemaikel T. Jarangan, Sales & Marketing Executive, Microtel by Wyndham Mall of Asia.

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Tel. No. +63 24 033333
Fax No. +63 26 594226

Room Rates

ROOM TYPES Discounted Rate per night Single or Twin
2 Queen Bed – City View Php 4,300.00
2 Queen Bed - Sunset View Php 4,800.00
1 Queen Bed – Suite Php 6,300.00

 

  • Above rates are inclusive of breakfast, service charge and applicable taxes.
  • Room rates are for single and twin sharing. An extra person charge (P750) shall apply thereafter for additional person/s (Maximum of 4 persons in a room). No extra bed/mattress will be provided.
  • Children 11 years old and below (maximum of 2) sharing a room with adults and utilizing the existing bed/s will be free of charge. For breakfast, the following rates shall apply: 0 – 3 years old (Free of Charge); 4 – 8 years old (50% off on breakfast rate); 9 – 11 years old (100% charge)

 

 OTHER HOTEL AMENITIES & SERVICES:

  • Breakfast is served buffet style at Millie’s Restaurant from 6AM up to 10AM.
  • Swimming pool is open daily from 7 AM up to 9 PM only.
  • Free WiFi at the hotel lobby and restaurant.
  • Scheduled shuttle service from Hotel – Mall of Asia (vis-à-vis)

 

CUT-OFF DATES AND BILLING ARRANGEMENT:

  • Room accommodation will be shouldered by the guests. Advance payment is required.
  • For check payments, kindly make it payable to CORAL WAY CITY HOTEL CORP.
  • For bank deposit, please remit payment to:

Account Name                Coral Way City Hotel Corp.

Bank Name / Branch       BDO Universal Bank –SM Mall of Asia B Branch

Bank Account Number     238-0088191

  • For incidental charges within the guests’ stay, payment should be done in cash or credit card upon guest/s’ check out. Incidental deposit amounting to Php 1,000 is required upon check-in.
  • In case of no show or early check-out, no refund shall be collected by the Company / Guest(s). All the room(s) blocked shall still be paid by the Company/Guest(s).
  • The cancellation fee shall not be charged in case of cancellation of the hotel reservations due to force majeure (i.e. causes which are outside of the control of the parties and could not be avoided by exercise of due care), fortuitous event (i.e. an unforeseen occurrence, not caused by either of the parties, nor such as they could prevent), and acts of God (i.e. acts occasioned exclusively by violence of nature without the interference of any human agency). In such cases, the parties may agree on a rescheduling of the reservation depending on the availability of guest rooms within three (3) months from the scheduled arrival date

Booking and Reservation

To avail the discounted rate below, please contact Ms. Jhenely Jazelle "Jeny" C. Tan, Sales Admin Assistant.

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Tel. No. (+63) 528-5840 to 43
Fax No. (63) 528-1814

Room rates

ROOM CATEGORY SINGLE/TWIN TRIPLE SHARING

Classic Superior Room* 

 

Php 4000.00

Php 5000.00

New Deluxe Room*

Php 5000.00

   N/A


 *subject to availability

 

August 18, 2015 
Deadline for Payment 
for Pre-Registered Participants
Unpaid Pre-Registrants Revert to On-site Status

August 25-26, 2015
Conference date

Download the programme here.

"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.

 

 

APAME 2015 Annual Convention

August 23-28, 2015

 Day 0                                   Sunday, 23 August 2015

0800H-1500H

1700H

Day Trip To Tagaytay (by invitation)

Welcome Dinner (by invitation)


Day 1                                     Monday, 24 August 2015

0800H-1430H Meeting of the Western Pacific Region Index Medicus, WHO (by invitation)
1430H-1515H

APAME General Assembly and Business Matters, WHO (by invitation)

1700H Joint Forum-APAME Opening Ceremony, PICC (open to all)


Day 2                                    Tuesday, 25 August 2015

0700H- 0800H Registration

0800H-0900H

Opening Ceremony
0900H- 1700H APAME Scientific and Workshop Sessions, Sofitel

1700H

Fellowship Dinner (by invitation)


Day 3                                     Wednesday, 26 August 2015

0800H- 0845H Turn-Over Ceremony

0800H-1700H

APAME Scientific and Workshop sessions, Sofitel

1330H-1600H

2 Forum Sessions hosted by APAME, PICC

1700H

Farewell Dinner (by invitation)


Day 4 and 5                         Thursday & Friday, 27-28 August 2015

0800H-1700H

8th National Medical Writing Workshop & 1st Writeshop for Young Researchers (by invitation)

 

OBJECTIVES OF THE ASSOCIATION

  • To encourage collaboration and facilitate communication among medical journal editors in the region and globally;
  • To improve editorial standards and promote professionalism in medical editing through education, self-assessment, and self-governance;
  • To facilitate research writing and peer-review processes through training workshops, seminars and other activities; and
  • To foster the continuing education of medical journals editors, reviewers, editorial staff, publishers and librarians in the region.
IMPORTANT DATES
 
 August 18, 2015 
Deadline for Payment 
for Pre-Registered Participants
Unpaid Pre-Registrants Revert to On-site Status

August 25-26, 2015
Conference date 

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