Dear Friends and Colleagues,

We are excited to announce the first annual The Bridge Medical Summit (BMS), a conference to be held from November 18th to 20th in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Organized by a group of distinguished physicians, scientists, as well as current students and trainees, the conference serves as a platform for all participants to share knowledge, exchange ideas, make friends and establish collaborations.

The mission of the conference is to build a bridge between cutting-edge research and clinical practice, a bridge between healthcare professionals in the US and those in China, a bridge between brilliant ideas and viable ventures, and ultimately, a bridge to a healthier world.

As detailed below, eight oral sessions and one poster session will be presented covering the major fields of medicine and biomedical research, with a CME credit of 6.5. Career development workshops will offer important topics such as medical education, residency application, and publication. At the Development Forum, physician-turned-entrepreneurs, biotech CEO’s and Founders, and other leaders from the healthcare and supporting fields will share their fascinating experiences and valuable insights. Social events, including intereactive performances at the banquet, will provide ample opportunity for informal interactions.

Above all, your participation is the most important part of the whole event. In addition to submitting abstracts, you are also welcome to participate in a variety of volunteer services. For more details, please refer to the website: www.acma.org.

The following are the highlights of the conference:

CME Credits: 6.5 AMA PRA Category 1 CreditsTM *

Hematology & Oncology
Cancer is the leading cause of mortality for people younger than 85 years old. After decades of vigorous study, new modalities of cancer treatment are emerging. Advance in research has brought new hope in fundamental changes in cancer treatment. To share these exciting progresses in cancer biology, physicians and scientists from the BMS Hematology and Oncology Session will update audience on the latest progresses and novel strategies of intervention and cutting edge discoveries in cancer research. Among internationally distinguished experts in the fields, are Professors Xi He, Xiaole Liu from Harvard Medical School, Penbo Zhou from Cornell, Hongtao Yu from Howard Huge Medical Institute Southwestern University, Wenyi Wei from Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC), Wenshu Wu from University of California, Berkeley, Qin Yan from Yale, Jiping Wang and Jerry Zhu from Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Jianmin Zhang from Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (DFCI). In addition, Jesus Gomez-Navarro, Head of Oncology Clinical Research and Wenru Song, Medical Director at Millennium Pharmaceuticals will present an update on personalized cancer therapy and cancer immunotherapy, respectively.

Cardiovascular Diseases
Cardiovascular diseases session will present the latest discoveries from miRNA to chromatin to stem cell, and from development to birth defect to adult diseases. Distinguished faculties include: Sean Wu, MD, PhD, MGH, Harvard Medical School, on “Stem cell and heart”; Zhong Wang, PhD, MGH, Harvard Medical School, on “Chromatin remodeling”; Weinian Shou, PhD, Indiana University School of Medicine, on “Myocardium and heart failure”; Bin Zhou, MD, PhD, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, on “Cardiovascular development and disease”; Ji Li, PhD, U Buffalo, on “Diabetes and coronary artery diseases”; Dazhi Wang, PhD, CHB, Harvard Medical School, on “miRNA and heart”; Sean Xue Li, PhD, CHB, Harvard Medical School, on “Cardiovascular birth defects”; Dali Fan, MD, PhD, UC Davis, on “sudden cardiac death”.

Regenerative Medicine
The regenerative medicine session presents a series of cross-discipline and translational topics that will appeal to a broad audience of both basic scientists and clinicians. The session aims to highlight the most recent preclinical advances in gene therapy, stem cell therapy, and mechanism-based small molecule approaches to regenerate tissue and cure diseases. The speakers include field leaders and renowned scientists, Drs. Ting Xie, Jisong Li, Steve Tseng, Jian Feng, Louis Chang, and Jianlong Wang, who will introduce recent breakthroughs from their own labs and deliberate significant contributions made by others in the respective topics during our panel discussions.

Infectious Diseases
Infectious diseases are caused by pathogens, such as bacteria, viruses, parasites or fungi. In Asian population, pneumonia and hepatitis are most common infectious diseases. In this section, our top scientists and physicians will explore the causes, novel treatments, and prevention of infectious diseases. The updated vaccination schedule will be introduced. Which vaccines do your children need before they go to school? What is HPV vaccine? You can get answers in our section. In addition, you can bring your questions to the experts directly.

Neurology and Neurobiology
The neuroscience session will present cutting-edge neuroscience talks from worldwi-leading scientists and physicians including Dr. Qiufu Ma from Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Dr. Zhongcong Xie from Massachusetts General Hospital, Drs. Xin Wang and Xiang Gao from Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and Dr. Lan Qin from University of Massachusetts. The topics will range from translational drug discoveries and clinical management and prevention for neurological diseases, the coding of pain versus itch, to anesthesia neurotoxicity in developing brain. Accomplishing our goal to bridge the basic science and clinical investigation will offer hope to patients suffering from a variety of neurological diseases.

Endocrinology and Metabolic Diseases
Endocrine diseases, with the example of diabetes, have imposed a huge tax on our society and will be worse in the next decades. With a prevalence of 10% of population with diabetes soon, both health professionals and regular population cannot ignore this issue. At least 1/3 of hospitalized patients have diabetes, which means, no matter which specialty you are in, you have to deal with diabetes. Osteoporosis is much more common in older women then people think, it causes severe damage to life quality at late age. Please join us at the Bridge conference with excellent speakers from New England to explore measures to battle these common problems.

Psychiatric Diseases
Asian Americans are the fastest growing minority group in the US. However, Asian Americans have the lowest rates of utilization of mental health services among all ethnic populations. This underrepresentation is attributable to stigma over using services, conceptions of health and treatment that differ from those underlying Western medicine, cultural inappropriateness of services, and the use of alternative resources within the Asian American communities. The mental health session is provided by a panel of clinician-researchers who are experts in various mental disorders. Important topics to be covered during the session include: late life depression and dementia by Dr. Wendy Qiu from Boston University; diagnosis and treatment of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder by Dr. Georgina Garcia from Children’s Hospital Boston; anxiety disorder and comorbid medical conditions by Dr. Liang Yuan from Tufts Medical School; schizophrenia and comorbid metabolic syndrome by Dr. Xiaoduo Fan from Massachusetts General Hospital.

Inflammation and Immunity
Broadly speaking, aberrant immune reaction and inflammation are the leading causes of morbidity and mortality. In addition to its critical role in cancer surveillance and pathogenesis of cardiovascular diseases, alteration of host self-defense system underlies common symptoms, such as fever, skin rash, joint pain, diarrhea and bloody bowel movement. Joined by world leading experts in this field, the BMS Immunity and Inflammation session will focus on these common clinical issues, their underlying mechanisms and current and future management strategies. Among the distinguished speakers are: Dr. John Kao from University of Michigan, Drs. Vijay Yajnik and Dicken Ko from Massachusetts General Hospital, Dr. Jerry Zhu from Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Dr. Tony Ip from University of Massachusetts.

Education and Career in Medicine
This educational and mentoring session will be graced by a panel of experts covering nearly every aspect of a medical career. As a special guest speaker for the session, Dr. Tom LaMont, Associate Editor of New England Journal of Medicine and Chief Editor of UpToDate will give a plenary lecture on career development in medicine. This will be followed by Dr. Julianne Ip, Associate Dean of Brown Medical School, who will speak on career advancement in medical school and residency training. The mentoring effort will be further enhanced by a talk on how to be successful in academic medicine by Dr. John Kao, Associate Director of GI training program at University of Michigan.

Development
The “Development” session explores not only the development from bench-side research to bed-side therapy, but also that from brilliant ideas to viable businesses. Moreover, we try to shed some light, and open the discussion, on the continuous development of the professionals in medicine and life sciences. In order to build bridges between “academia and industry”, “basic research and drug development”, “novel ideas and successful ventures”, “biotechnology and supporting fields such as Investment and Legal”, we have the honor to have recruited a stellar panel of speakers—including outstanding physicians who have traversed the fields of medicine and business, founders with life science background who have built successful businesses ranked among the “Inc. 500”, CEO’s and executives from biotech and pharma, as well as experts from the venture capital and legal communities.

The Bridge Medical Summit Organizing Committee

*This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the Essential Areas and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education through the joint Sponsorship of the University of Massachusetts Medical School and American Chinese Medical Association. The University of Massachusetts Medical School is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

The University of Massachusetts Medical School designates this educational activity for a maximum of 6.5 AMA PRA Category 1 CreditsTM. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Looking forward to seeing you in November!

亲爱的同仁们、朋友们：

我们很高兴地宣布2011年首届“健桥医学峰会”将于11月18日至20日在马萨诸塞州剑桥市举行。本次学术盛会是由一批杰出的医生、科学家、学者及学生共同策划并组织的。大会将为各位同仁及朋友架起一道分享知识，交流思想，结朋交友及合作发展的健康之桥。

健康是人类的第一财富，有健康才有未来。但是保持健康，仅靠医生是不行的，单纯依靠科学家也是不行的。本次大会的理念是希望医生、科学家与公众携手同进，共保健康。

有朋友可能要问，大会的名称为什么叫“健桥医学峰会”呢？这是由本次大会的特点与任务所决定的。这就是架设前沿基础研究与临床实践之间的桥梁；架设中美医务专业人员之间的桥梁；架设引领极具潜能的理念到可行的发展，并最终构建更加健康的世界的桥梁。

本次峰会共设八个分会场，一个海报会场和两个论坛。会议将涵盖主要的医学和生物医学研究领域。学术分会场将提供精彩的职业发展指导。同时，一系列社交活动，包括互动式的晚会和表演，会给以与会者提供充分的机会进行非正式的互动。

这将是一个令人振奋的学术盛会，您的参与是最重要的。我们鼓励您积极提交学术论文摘要，并提前报名参加各种志愿者服务，投身到这一具有历史意义的盛会中来。

亲爱的朋友们，让我们携手并进，共襄盛举！

更多详情，请参阅网站：www.acma.org。

以下是这次学术盛会的要点：

CME Credits*: 6.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits^TM

血液和肿瘤疾病

癌症是世界上85岁以下人群的主要死亡原因。经过数十年的不断发展，新兴的肿瘤治疗模式正在快速地崭露头角。超前的肿瘤研究给肿瘤治疗的根本改变带来了新的希望。为了分享这些癌症生物学激动人心的进展，在我们的血液和肿瘤分会上，医生和科学家们将会带给我们最前沿的发现和理念。我们有幸请到此领域国际杰出专家：哈佛医学院的贺熹博士和刘小乐博士，康奈尔的周衯波博士，西南大学霍华德医学院的于宏涛博士，加州大学伯克利分校的吴文书博士，耶鲁大学的严钦博士，贝斯•以色列医院的魏文艺博士，布里格姆和妇女医院的王济平博士、朱正仑博士以及包括丹纳-法伯癌症研究所的张建民博士。此外，肿瘤临床研究的学术带 头人Jesus Gomez-Navarro, 以及Millennium医药公司医务主任宋文儒将分别 介绍个性化的 癌症治疗和肿瘤免疫治疗的最新现状。

心血管疾病

心血管疾病分会将给大家介绍从miRNA到染色质再到干细胞，从生成到出生缺陷再到成人病的最新发现。我们有幸请到了麻省总医院、哈佛医学院的吴肖恩医学博士为我们介绍“干细胞和心脏”的研究进展；王忠博士带来了“染色质重塑”的研究领域进展；印第安纳大学医学院守卫年博士要和大家探讨“心肌和心脏衰竭”的研究进展；阿尔伯特爱因斯坦医学院的周斌医学博士带给我们“心血管发育和疾病”新的进展；水牛城大学的李季博士探讨“糖尿病和冠状动脉疾病”；哈佛医学院的王大志博士和李雪博士将分别讨论“miRNA和心脏”和“心血管出生缺陷”的前沿进展; 加州大学戴维丝分校的范大力博士讲述”突发性心源性死亡”.

再生医学

再生医学分会将呈现给大家一系列交叉学科和临床转化医学的主题，这正是健康之桥在学术领域之间的体现。相信该分会不仅将吸引广大基础领域的科学家，也将对临床医生有极大的引领意义。会议旨在突出该领域临床研究的最新进展，包括基因治疗、干细胞疗法，以及以小分子机制进行组织重组和疾病治疗的进展。演讲者包括领域的学术带头人和著名科学家：谢霆博士，李济松博士，Stephen Tseng博士，冯健博士，Louis Chang 博士和王建龙博士，他们将介绍自己实验室的最新突破及领域内的前沿进展。

传染性疾病

传染性疾病是由病原体通过直接和间接的途径传播引起的疾病，其中肺炎和肝炎是亚裔族群中最常见的疾病。大会邀请了传染病领域最好的科学家和医生。他们会详细介绍传染病病源和机理的研究，最新的诊治手段。接种疫苗被认为是最有效的预防和控制传染性疾病的措施。那么孩子入幼儿园，上学和去夏令营都要有哪些免疫记录？最新的HPV疫苗是防什么病？等等问题您都能从讲座中得到答案。您也能直接问专家相关的问题。

神经病学和神经生物学

全球最领先的科学家和医生们将带给我们最先进的神经科学讲座，包括丹纳-法伯癌症研究所的马秋富博士，麻省总医院的谢仲淙博士，布里 格姆与妇女医院的王欣博士、高翔博士，麻州大学的秦岚博士。会议主题将涵盖神经系统疾病药物的发现、临床管理和预防，疼痛及瘙痒的神经通路，以及麻醉对于发育中的大脑的神经毒性。我们的架桥工程—基础科学 和临床研究—将会给各种神经系统疾病患者带来福音。

内分泌和代谢性疾病

内分泌疾病，比如糖尿病，已经极大地影响了我们的社会，并且在未来几十年会成为愈来愈严重的社会负担。糖尿病发病率很快将达到人群的10%，因此无论健康专业人士还是普通民众都不能忽视这个严重的问题。至少1/3的住院病人同时患有糖尿病，这意味着，各个专科医生均需要应对糖尿病。骨质疏松症是中老年妇女的常见疾病，它会严重影响晚年生活质量。想知道怎样解决这些常见问题吗，我们杰出的医生和科学家会带你去探索。

精神疾病

亚裔美国人是美国成长最快的少数族裔，但却是各族裔人口中精神卫生服务利用率最低的人群。这种不足的原因来自于对精神疾病的误解，有别于西方医学的健康和治疗的观念，不合亚裔文化的服务，以及亚裔社区的替代资源。精神疾病分会由临床医生和研究人员组成专家小组。具体由波士顿大学邱温迪博士带来“晚年抑郁症和老年痴呆症”的最近进展；波士顿儿童医院的Dr. Georgina Garcia 主讲 “多动症的诊断和治疗”；塔夫茨 大学医学院梁元博士讨论“焦虑症和并发身体疾病”；麻省总医院范晓舵博士主讲“精神分裂症伴发代谢综合征”。希望能为提高亚裔人群精神卫生服务做出贡献。

炎症及免疫

从广义上讲，异常的免疫及炎性反应是导致疾病发生及死亡的最大祸首。除了它在癌症监测和心血管疾病的发病机制上所起的重要作用，紊乱了的宿主自我防御系统会引起一系列的常见的病症，如发热，皮疹，关节疼痛，腹泻和脓血便。世界知名的本领域医生与科学家将在免疫和炎症分会上详细介绍这些临床上常见的问题，包括其基本机制、当前和今后的管理策略。与会专家包括：密歇根大学的John Kuo博士，麻省总医院的Vijay Yajnik博士和Dicken Ko博士，布里格姆和妇女医院的朱正仑博士和麻省大 学Tony Ip教授。

医学职业教育

这是一个关于职业发展的特殊的分会场。来自新英格兰医学杂志的副主编以及UpToDate主编Tom LaMont博士将进行一场关于医学职业发展的演 讲。其后，布朗大学医学院副院长Julianne Ip博士将带领听众讨论医学院 和住院医师培训的职业生涯地位。密西根大学消化科培训项目的副主任 John Kao 博士将要讨论如何在医学学术领域获得成功。接下来的讨论环节 将进一步与专家分享涉及各个医学领域的专科教育及指导经验。

发展

发展是我们每个人的共同愿望，是我们学术大会的最终目标。我们的发展，不仅仅局限在药物的研发，产品的开发，而是要通过我们的桥梁的作用，为医生、基础研究的专业人士个人职业生涯的大发展提供启迪。本次大会针对观众的特点，特意设计了“发展”分会。该分会桥梁的价值在于架设“医生与工业界”“基础研究与实际开发”“学术研究与资本市场”“医生、患者与私人医疗机构”“学术与法律”之间的桥梁。分会包括了杰出的外科医生在临床实践中发现临床需求、将想法变成产品的有趣案例的讨论；还包括了有生命科学研究背景的Inc. 500公司的创始人，以及生物医药界的 CEO 和高管，来为大家开阔发展的思路。同时还邀请了来自风险投资领域 和法律界专家为我们的发展注入活力，并保驾护航。

健桥医学峰会组委会

2011年11月3日