President, ASFU

The Asian Society for Female Urology, the Asia Pacific Continence Advisory Board & the Society for Continence (Singapore) jointly organized a 3 day instructional course on the Contemporary Management of Urinary Incontinence for doctors, nurses & continence advisors from the Asia Pacific region. The course was conducted by a local teaching faculty with doctors and nurses from our local hospitals making up most of the registered participants. The main feature of the event was an Urodynamics hands-on workshop/instructional course organized by ASFU, APCAB, SUA and the Society for Continence (Singapore) in conjunction with the Singapore Urological Association’s Annual Urofair held from 21-23 February 2005.  Some 80 local medical professionals from the region attended this first of its kind hands-on workshop in Singapore.  Professor Derek Griffiths from USA was the course Instructor and Dr Pearlyn Quek convened the entire meeting. Live case demonstrations were conducted at the Changi General Hospital, Singapore.

The 7th Scientific Meeting of the Asian Society for Female Urology (ASFU) was held in Bangkok, Thailand on 9-11 November 2005. 200 delegates from the region attended the meeting. The overseas invited speakers were Prof Howard Goldman, Prof Philip van Kerrebroeck and Prof Helmut Madersbacher.

The 1st edition of the ‘Approach to Female Urology-Reflecting Asian Views’ textbook of the Society was launched during this meeting. 100 copies were sold on the spot.

Prof Bernard Haylen was invited to give a state-of-the art lecture at the ASFU workshop organized in-conjunction with the International College of Surgeons’ Scientific Meeting held on the 1 & 2 April 2006 in Singapore and he was conferred an Honorary membership of our Society during the event.

The society was invited to present a comprehensive Training Program in Female Urology for the Asia Pacific Region at the IUGA Annual Congress in Copenhagen plus develop training centers in Asia for this specialty. Prof Peter Lim presented the ASFU Syllabus & the centers willing to accept Asian Postgraduates were in Singapore, Bangalore, Kuala Lumpur, & Taiwan at a Pre-Congress event in Copenhagen.

The 8th ASFU meeting -Female Urology & Incontinence workshop was held in Bali, Indonesia on 24th August 2006 in conjunction with the Asian Congress of Urology.

The 9th ASFU/APCAB scientific meeting was scheduled to be  in   Yogjakarta in July 2007 but was cancelled due to an earthquake disaster in that town.

ASFU, APCAB and Society for Continence (Singapore) jointly organized a seminar on ‘The latest treatment in OAB’ for General Practitioners in Singapore on 8th September 2007. Professor Schahnaz Alloussi, Chief, Urology of Department, Academic Hospital, Neunkirchen, Germany was specially invited to deliver the lecture and to present his findings.

ASFU, College of Family Physicians & Society for Continence (Singapore) jointly organized a seminar on ‘OAB’ and launched Clinical Practice Guidelines for the Treatment of Incontinence in July 2008.

ASFU and the National University of Singapore jointly organized a Public Forum on ‘Pelvic Floor Health’ in July 2008.

The 10th ASFU workshop would be held at the Asian Congress of Urology meeting in Delhi, India on 2 October 2008. The theme is ‘Recent Advances in Female Urology, Neurourology & the Overactive Bladder ‘.

The ASFU & the Society for Continence (Singapore) would be joining the ‘Third Japan-Asean Men’s Health & Aging’ conference to run a Urodynamics & Urinary Incontinence hands-on workshop for one day in Nov/Dec 2008.