Selamat Datang from Conference Co-Chair, Shazeea Banu
Selamat Datang!
It is with great pleasure that I welcome you to my home Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Over the past few months the Organising Committee and its subcommittee members have been hard at work putting this conference together. What started as a vision has filled itself out into the different aspects you will come to see during the conference programme. The last few weeks have been an adrenaline-filled rush of phone calls, texts, instant messages and emails, and we hope the fruits of our labour will come to bear in the next five days.
Student conferences are the place for meeting lifelong friends. I’ve only been to one AMSA conference and from there I knew immediately that the friends I made are ones that I will keep. Those of us who converge here are pretty much the same - friendly, outgoing, up for adventure - and I find that some of the best relationships are founded when likeminded strangers come together. Technology makes keeping in touch simple and air travel means seeing each other again is not a remote concept.
The beauty about AMSA is that while all the fun takes place we are constantly reminded of why we are here. HIV/AIDS is an issue that affects us all. In our roles as medical students and future doctors we are in prime positions to take that extra step to fight for its advocacy.
It has been a journey of a lifetime for us up to this point, and with that we wish all of you a wonderful time and an exciting conference.
Shazeea Banu
Co-Chair, Organising Committee, Monash University Sunway Campus, KL