The team from Leo Pharma who took time off on Saturday to help with the registration and issuing of movie tickets. At the venue were various colleagues from Leo Pharma including the product manager, national sales manager and Country Manager for Leo Pharma.

Mr Eugene Cross, the president of PAM with friends and Leo Pharma team.

Members from PAM having a light breakfast and refreshments prior to the movie screening.

Members seated and waiting for the launch programme prior to the movie screening.

(L-R) Doctor Steven Chow, Dr Noor Zalmy Azizan, Eugene and Mr Tan, Country Manager of Leo Pharma Malaysia unravelling the WPD buntings on stage to officiate World Psoriasis Day in Malaysia.

Official group photo as above.

The movie lasted approximately 109 minutes. The PAM members then adjourned with their families for lunch and shopping at the popular Mid Valley Megamall. We hoped everyone enjoyed the show and had a fun day out.

P/S You can find more information about the movie “In Time” here: http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/in_time/

This World Psoriasis Day, the radio station BFM 89.9 brings us an interview that features both sides of the story. We take a look at the technical, medical details of Psoriasis as well as the personal, humane side of those who have to live with the symptoms and understands the diseases and problems more intimately even than those who treat them. Listen to Dr. Suganthi Thevarajah, a senior consultant dermatologist, as well as from Mr. Eugene Clifford Cross, who has lived with psoriasis for over 40 years. Click here to download the podcast

This movie is a Hollywood sci-fi thriller staring Justin Timberlake and Amanda Seyfried (Rated PG 13 Approx 109 mins).

Due to a large response for tickets via OFFLINE requests – reservation of tickets via ONLINE is now closed. For those of you who registered, see you on Saturday  Remember to bring that something extra in case it gets cold in the cinema

Watch a new documentary that was funded by a grant from Leo Pharma called Exposed - A Film About Coming To Terms With Psoriasis. Directed by James Routh (UK filmmaker), the documentary has Rena Ramani (first diagnosesd at age 13) being interviewed and then goes to meet other psoraisis patients to understand how psoriasis has affected their lives.

A particularly interesting segment is when Dr Stevens (who is involved in assessing General Practice training) also volunteers to have himself made up (via makeup) to have psoriasis on his head and face. He then goes out to meet everday people on the street and experiences first hand, how people react to his psoriasis.

Watch online or download the film here

Dr Steven Chow also reveals  details about Psoriasis treatment including mentioning that Psoriasis should be labelled as “immunological  based” vs describing Psoriasis as an “auto immune” disease. Click here to listen via streaming online or download the podcast.

Details are found below:

Academy of Medicine Malaysia
G-1 Medical Academies of Malaysia, 210 Jln Tun Razak,
50400 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Map and photo here: http://bit.ly/khPtWL

AGENDA
12.30 – 13.30 Lunch
13.30 – 15.00 AGM

By inducing inflammation similar to psoriasis in the skin of mice, Blanco hopes to learn how molecules in the nervous system react at the site of psoriasis lesions.

Blanco, a native of Spain, finished her doctorate at the Spanish National Research Council in Madrid before coming the U.S., where she did her first post-doctoral training in the study of the role of the immune system in multiple sclerosis.

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What happens at the AGM? Well, the Psoriasis Association of Malaysia is a registered volunteer based organisation. Under the guidelines of forming an official association – you are required to organise this once a year. Besides voting for new committee members and other official tasks – members can get to ‘network’ in person, catch up with each other and make new friends.

More info will be shared soon. Watch this space!

Scientist Tom McCormick, assistant professor of dermatology at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, believes that connecting patient experience with research findings is vital in understanding the impact that psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis have on public health, including factors such as quality of life and work productivity.”Making that bridge is critical,” McCormick said. It drives his dedication to ensure that Congress continues supporting collection of data on psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis.

He spoke with lawmakers in early March as part of a group of scientists and volunteer leaders who traveled to Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., as well as to the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS) in Bethesda, Md., to advocate for federal support of psoriasis research.The goal is to stay in front of lawmakers who last year provided $1.5 million to fund the first stage of psoriasis data collection at the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) in Atlanta. By keeping the need for psoriasis research in front of Congress, the hope is that funding will continue and the CDC can advance from the initial phase to the actual data collection.

Also participating in the fly-in were Terri Theisen, representing the National Psoriasis Foundation Board of Trustees, who told Congress about the Foundation’s investment in and commitment to research for a cure, and Lauren Oickle, who is pursuing a career in science in part because of her experience living with psoriatic disease.

Psoriasis researchers joining McCormick included:

Anne Bowcock, Ph.D, professor at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis;
Nehal Mehta, M.D., M.S., preventive cardiology, director of inflammatory risk, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, at University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine in Philadelphia;
Abrar Qureshi, M.D., assistant professor, Harvard Medical School in Boston.

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