Auckland Chinese Medical Association

25/04/2024

Please register for our upcoming ACMA Conference on Sat 18 May acma.org.nz/conference2024

29/02/2024

ACMA held its first CME of the year on the 24th of February, 2024. The CME consists of two parts: First, an in-depth discussion on the use of GLP-1 Receptor Agonists in the management of Type II diabetes by Doctor Jasmin Tan, followed by a video report by Dr Serena Peng describing her elective experience at Cambridge University after receiving a scholarship from ACMA.

The CME concluded with a dinner, where all attendees enjoyed a delicious Chinese dinner at the Treasure Kitchen Restaurant. A big thank you to Novo Nordisk for kindly sponsoring this event to help promote continued medical education.

12/09/2023

On Sunday the 28th of May, we had our 4th CME of the year.

We are fortunate this month to have Dr Lulu Van Eeden, an ACMA member, along with Dr Gareth Rivalland, present on some fascinating topics around Obstetrics & Gynaecology, and Oncology.

Dr Lulu Van Eeden is a New Zealand-trained gynaecologist and a top graduate in obstetrics and gynaecology at Otago University in 2010.

She is currently a consultant at Counties Manukau DHB, interested in hysteroscopy, laparoscopies, colposcopy, and gynaecology cancers.

Dr Rivalland is a medical oncologist and recipient of the Abbott Watson Memorial Scholarship from the University of Auckland. He specialises in cancers of the lung, melanoma, brain and soft tissue tumours. Dr Rivalland works at Harbour Cancers & Wellness and Auckland City Hospital.

24/08/2023

On the 24th of April 2023, we had our 3rd CME of the year. This event was sponsored by the Cardiology Institute.

We started with a discussion on complex cardiac cases guided by cardiologists Dr Bernard Wong, Dr Gary Lau, Dr James Fu and Dr Shawn Foo, where antendees where introduced to the newest evidence and updated guidelines on their optimal management. This was followed by a Q&A session for attendees to delve more into specific issues.

The second part was a presentation on Dementia, where Dr Yu Min Lin talked about the key management issues, challenges and support networks present for Chinese populations living with Dementia.

The night ended with a hearty meal where students, attendees and speakers enjoyed great Chinese food from Chow Foo Restaurant!

08/03/2023

Warm welcome to year of rabbit and thank you for all ACMA/YACMA members’ continued support and participation for our CME events.

Our first CME of 2023 was held at Fortune Fountain Restaurant Milford on 26 Feb 2023, where we discussed “Functional abdominal pain in the Asian patient” presented by Dr Cameron Schauer.

This event was kindly sponsored by Waitemata Endoscopy
https://www.waitemataendoscopy.co.nz/

05/03/2023

Recently, Asian Family Services had their Independent Launch after being a service delivery arm of the Problem Gambling Foundation. Dr Carlos Lam attended this launch as a representative of ACMA on the kind invitation of CEO, Kelly Feng MNZM. There were several cultural performances amongst all the various speeches and a good time was had by all who attended to celebrate this momentous occasion. ACMA will endeavour to collaborate more with AFS in the future via various projects and talks to help our reduce our shocking rates of suicides amongst our Asian people and reduce gambling harm.

27/01/2023

The first event of the year , YCMA/ACMA health stall of Auckland Chinese Community Centre Festive & Market day 2023 went very well. Thank you for those who attend and participate . All of your volunteer work is greatly appreciated.

18/10/2022

Covid or not its been a busy year for ACMA with our educational activities and social /community events ( in between the alert levels ) Further activities have included CME meetings April ( Dyspepsia and Colorectal cancer ) , June ( Heavy Menstrual Bleeding ) September ( Medicinal Cannabis ) , October ( Heart Failure ) . We have been to the West Lynn Gardens to relax, Conducted community webinars and ran a health check stall at the Auckland Chinese Community Centre.
We will have our AGM next month with a talk on the Acute red eye and then enjoy a break over Christmas . Bring on 2023!

08/08/2022

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/472437/asian-new-zealanders-face-challenges-in-accessing-health-services-doctors

Experts are concerned New Zealand's second largest and fastest growing ethnic group is falling through the cracks of the health system.

16/06/2022

Hello Everyone
On May 27th, ACMA members gathered a team of doctors, pharmacists and friends, collectively named as 'THE COVID BUSTERS", and partook other quiz teams at the "UPSIDE DOWNS Charity Pub Quiz" at Browne Street Gastropub, Avondale.

This was in support of raising funds towards Speech Therapy for Children with Down Syndrome.

We battled sixteen other teams in categories as diverse as music, geography, film, politics, and felt chuffed to end up as fifth best team on the night!

P.S. We even scored a perfect 10/10 points for the politics section and everyone had a great time!

05/03/2022

On Sunday the 27th of February we held our first CME of the year at Imperial Palace.
We were lucky to have Dr Indran Ramanthan talk to us about lung cancer screening, Dr Anand Segar discuss scoliosis in Asian children, and author Lily Lee share her story Farewell Guangdong.

12/02/2022

Our very own Dr Carlos Lam contributed to this article to highlight the hidden plight of the poor state of mental health in a lot of Asian folk in NZ.

How New Zealand's health system is failing our fastest-growing minority group.