ACMA AGM 2019

On Sunday 10 November 2019, ACMA held their Annual General Meeting (AGM) at Imperial Palace in Panmure. ACMA President Carlos Lam chaired the meeting, providing an update and overview to members about ACMA’s activities over the year and future direction. YACMA President-elect Aimee Meng also provided an overview of YACMA 2019. The winners of the ACMA Elective Scholarship was also announced, being awarded to Thitapon Uiyapat and Brian Yeom. The Scholarship provides financial assistance to each YACMA student in their elective studies during their trainee intern year. We look forward to their presentations about their elective experiences next year.

We would like to thank two ACMA Executive members who are stepping down from their roles, Dr Derek Luo and Dr Stanley Loo. Both have provided their support and services for many years and in many roles - their leadership will be sorely missed from the executive committee. The incoming ACMA Executive for 2020 was also announced and are as follows:

President - Dr Carlos Lam
Vice-president - Dr Vicky Tai
Immediate Past President / CME Coordinator - Dr Andrew To
Treasurer - Dr Adrian Wan
Mentorship Coordinator - Dr Gary Wu
RMO Rep - Dr Kevin Liu
Social Rep - Dr Brian Tse
General Committee - Dr Michelle Wong, Dr Gee Hing Wong, Dr Wilson Young, Dr Cliff Ah-Kit, Dr Boris Yow, Dr Ang Liu, Dr Linda Lum, Dr Albert Low
Webmaster - Brian Yeom

Our keynote speaker was Dr Angela Lim, CEO and Co-Founder of Clearhead. Dr Lim recounted her story of entering medicine, her time in the Ukraine and about how Clearhead came to be. Clearhead is a New Zealand company that aims to improve access to mental health services. The platform focuses on people who struggle with mental health and aims to promote healthcare that is focused on maintaining wellness, rather than propagating to illness. Clearhead has produced an app that uses Artificial Intelligence to screen and assess users that may be suffering from mental health unwellness. The app produces a report that can be shown to healthcare professionals to support their mental health care, as well as allows users to search for professional help in the community. Perhaps most importantly, the app is free-to-use, making mental health care easily accessible for all people. We would like to thank Dr Lim for an insightful and interesting talk, and wish her and the Clearhead team further success in the future.

Please visit the Clearhead website for more information.