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Program (tentative, subject to change)

6 July (Monday)

5.00pm – 9.00pm  

The GP-TCM RA BoD meeting

All BoD members, chairs and co-chairs of 7 IGs only

Day 1: 7 July (Tuesday)

8.30am – 9.15am  

Registration

9:15am – 10:00am

Opening ceremony

  • Welcome speech
  • Welcome remarks
  • Group photo

Dr. Mei WANG, President of GP-TCM RA

Prof. Lidan ZHONG, Host of the meeting

Dr Ho Pin TEO, Guest of Honour, Chairman of TCM Practitioners Board

10:00am – 10:30am

Keynote speech 1

Relevance of edible and medicinal plants as neuroprotective agents

Prof. Alberto Carlos PIRES DIAS, Department of Biology, University of Minho, Braga, Portugal

10:30am – 11:00am

Tea/coffee break & poster/exhibition viewing session

11:00am – 11:30am

Keynote speech 2

Past, Present, and Future of Integrative Oncology

Dr. Ting BAO, Leonard P. Zakim Center for Integrative Therapies and Healthy Living

11:30am – 12:30pm

Interest Group 1 – Publication

Chairpersons: Dr. Myeong Soo Lee, Prof. De-An Guo and Prof. Thomas Efferth

International standards and good practice guidelines in traditional, complementary and integrative medicine: a scoping review

Prof. Xuanbin WANG, Hubei University of Medicine

Evidence-Based Chinese Medicine and Technology Assessment

Prof. Jianping LIU, Director and Chair Centre for Evidence-based Medicine, Hospital of Chengdu University of TCM

Integrity at the interface: Open Science Practices and Predatory Publishing Risk

Dr. Jeremy NG, University of Tubingen, German

WJTCM

Prof. De-An GUO, Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, China

 

" Perspectives on Integrative Medicine" and " Integrative Medicine Research"

 

Prof. Myeong Soo LEE, Korea Institute of Oriental Medicine, Korea

12:30pm – 1:30pm

Lunch

1:30pm – 3:00pm

Interest Group 2 – Pharmacology & Toxicology

Chairpersons: Prof. Clara Bik-San Lau, Prof. Lie-Fen Shyur

Pharmacological Target Identification and Chemical Biology Research of Bioactive Components from Traditional Chinese Medicine

Prof. Zhe WANG, China Pharmaceutical University, China

Natural products and neuroprotection

Prof. Simon LEE, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

From 'Agonizing Itch' to 'Sweet Relief': The Quest for Antipruritic TCM R&D

Prof. Hong NIE, Jinan University

3:00pm – 3:30pm

Tea/coffee break & poster/exhibition viewing session

3:30pm – 5:00pm

Interest Group 3 – Regulatory Aspects & Industry

Chairpersons: Dr. Liping Qu and Mr. Abraham Chan

Resilience, Reconfiguration and Adaptive Innovation: Multi-dimensional Governance of Sustainable Chinese Medicine Supply Chains in the UK under VUCA Contexts

Prof. George HE, UK Centre of Chinese Medicine

Analytical method validation for TCM industrial applications

Dr. Stephan HORSTEN, European Scientific Cooperative on Phytotherapy

Regulatory application of human-use experience in TCM product R&D

Prof. Zhongqi YANG, The First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine

6:30pm – 8:30pm

Conference Dinner

End of Day 1 Session

Day 2: 8 July (Wednesday)

9:00am – 10:30am

Interest Group 4 – Clinical Studies

Chairpersons: Prof. Lidan Zhong

Clinical Efficacy Evaluation study of Tuina Combined with Medicated Oil Massage in the Treatment of Non-Specific Low Back Pain

Dr. Man YUAN, Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine

Reporting, risk of bias, and trustworthy in clinical trials

Prof. Yao LIANG, Nanyang Technological University

A gut-to-lung axis to treat obesity using Panax Notoginseng: from clinical evidence to translational mechanistic study

Prof. Ning WANG, The University of Hong Kong

10:30am – 11:00am

Tea/coffee break & poster/exhibition viewing session

11:00am – 12:30pm

Interest Group 5 – Clinical Practice Guidelines

Chairpersons: Dr. Chris Chan and Prof. Wendy Wong

Major interventions in CPGs of major depressive disorder

Prof Jerry YEUNG, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Development and Application of Integrated Traditional Chinese Medicine in the Intervention for Insomnia Disorders

Dr Binbin LEI, Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine

High-Quality Real-World Evidence for TCM Clinical Decision-Making

Prof Jing TAN, Professor, Sichuan University

12:30pm – 2:00pm

Lunch

(Early career participants lunch gathering with President and President-Elect of GP-TCM RA)

2:00pm – 3:15pm

GP-TCM RA AGM 2026

3:15pm – 3:45pm

Tea/coffee break & poster/exhibition viewing session

3:45pm – 4:15pm

Keynote speech 3

Improving Global Transparency in Clinical Trials

Prof Ghassan KARAM, World Health Organization

4:15pm – 5:45pm

Interest Group 6 – Acupuncture-Moxibustion and Meridians

Chairpersons: Prof. Jianping Liu

The TCM Community Model: A Cross-Cultural Framework through Global Scientific Exchange

Ms. Angie CALOR-MAN, The TCM Community

Methodological challenges in the design of acupuncture trials

Prof Jianping LIU, Director and Chair Centre for Evidence-based Medicine, Hospital of Chengdu University of TCM

 

Current evidence level in Acupuncture research: an overview

Prof Myeong Soo LEE, Korea Institute of Oriental Medicine

 

Effects and mechanism of acupuncture on circadian rhythm

Prof Chengshun ZHANG, Chengdu University of Traditional Chinese Medicine

End of Day 2 Session

Day 3: 9 July (Thursday)

9:00am – 10:30am

Interest Group 7 – Quality Control

Chairpersons: Prof. Rudolf Bauer and Prof. Monique Simmonds

Machine learning and chemometric methods for high-throughput authentication of Chinese herbs using ATR-FTIR fingerprints

Prof. De-An GUO, Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine

Advancing Herbal Medicine: Extent Similarity Assessment for a Quantitative Fingerprinting Approach of Herbal Medicinal Products

Dr. Xiao WU, Bayer Consumer Health

Development and application of artificial intelligence in quality control of traditional Chinese medicine

Prof. Yuanjia HU, University of Macau

10:30am – 11:00am

Tea/Coffee break & poster/exhibition viewing session

11:00am – 11:30am

2-minute flash poster presentations from selected abstracts

11:30am – 12:00pm

Keynote speech 4

Combining the Best of Traditional Chinese & Western Medicine: Are We Ready?

 

Prof Jing Jih CHIN, National Healthcare Group

12:00pm – 12:15pm

Awards presentation

12:15pm – 12:30pm

Closing ceremony

Closing remarks by Dr. Mei WANG, President of GP-TCM RA

12:30pm – 2:00pm

Lunch

End of Day 3 session