Kalbe Farma Tbk PT : Academia Supports Continuous Medical Education

Jakarta, 4 February 2017 - PT Kalbe Farma, Tbk (Kalbe) in collaboration with the Indonesian Neurologists' Association (PERDOSSI) holds an educaitonal event on neurology in the Grand Kalbe Akademia seminar and workshop series with the theme 'Indonesian Neurologist Forum'.

'Kalbe has been consistently conducting health education as effort to assist to increase the general health of Indonesian toward a better life,' said Irawati Setiady, President Director of PT Kalbe Farma Tbk. 'In this year's Grand Kalbe Academia, we are focusing on the discussion of neurological disorders in Indonesia, in hoping that it can be a comprehensive educational forum for Indonesian neurologists on neurological disorders to allow the creation of intensive interaction between the participants and practitioners,' Irawati added.

Kalbe Academia is one of Kalbe's programs as one of the efforts in supporting the Ongoing Doctors' Education for physicians as well as an effort to provide education for laypeople. Kalbe Academia has been held for more than 5 years, located at more than 47 cities and has involved approximately 50,000 participants both from medical professions or laypeople. Grand Kalbe Academia is held this year as the culmination of the entire Kalbe Academia series, with the theme Indonesian Neurologist Forum.

The choice of the theme 'Indonesian Neurologist Forum' is based from the data of World Health Organization (WHO) that states that neurological disorder is one of the biggest challenges in public health. This is largely caused by the high number of death and disabilities caused by neurological problems.. It is even stated that 8 out of 10 highest causes of disabilities came from neurological disorder. Furthermore, in a digital era such as the present day, where access to information is opened wide for everyone, one of the impacts is the .level of knowledge and demand from the laypeople to obtain a thorough therapy. This will eventually increase the demand on the role of Neurologists to provide best-integrated quality care for patients with neurological disorder.

As we all know, the neural system is a system that regulates and coordinates body activities which consists of central nervous system, i.e. brain and spine marrow, as well as peripheral nerves, which are nerves on other organs such as eye nerves, ear nerves, skin nerves, etc.

There are a number of neurological disorders that are often seen, e.g. stroke, neuropathic pain, epilepsy, cognitive disorder, head injuries, et al. In the epidemiologic data that is collected by WHO, it was discovered that the neurological disease that caused the highest number of disabilities in Asia or the world is stroke.

In Indonesia, Stroke is the largest cause of death in hospitals, at 15.4%. Based on the diagnosis by healthcare provider and reported symptoms in Riskerdas 2013, the prevalence of stroke in Indonesia is at 12.1 per 1,000 persons.

Grand Kalbe Academia - Indonesian Neurologist Forum is a continuous event conducted between Kalbe and Perdossi who has collaborated in a number of other events, e.g. Pain Learning Forum, Stroke Expert Meeting, to laypersons' education on epilepsy that collaborated with the Indonesian Epilepsy Foundation.

The speakers present at the seminar are, among others: (1) Prof. Dr. dr. Hasan Machfoed, Sp.S(K) with the theme Global Imperatives and Challenges Facing the Practice of Neurology; (2) dr. Riwanti Estiasari, Sp.S(K) with the theme Multiple Sclerosis: How to Optimize Patient Adherence?; (3) Prof. Dr. dr. Hasan Syahrir, Sp.S(K) with the theme Early Acute Management in Spinal Cord Injury; (4) Prof. dr. KRT. Lucas Meliala, Sp.KJ, Sp.S(K) with the theme Challenges and Opportunities of Multidisciplinary Pain Management Team in Indonesia; (5) DY. Suharya, BA Jour, MPH with the theme Comprehensive Understanding of Alzheimer & Early Diagnostic of Dementia. Followed by a dialogue and discussion session with the theme Do We still Need Neuroprotector? that will present three speakers, i.e. dr. Andradi Suryamihardja, Sp.S(K); Dr. dr. Paulus Sugianto, Sp.S(K) and Karsten Overgaard, MD who hailed from Denmark.

Aside of the Grand Kalbe Akademia event, Kalbe has also consistently published Jurnal Ilmiah, Cermin Dunia Kedokteran (CDK), a scientific journal that consists, among others, articles on Continuing Medical Education (CME) with the value of Learning Credit Unit(SKP) which comes from the collaboration of Jurnal CDK with the Board of Executives of the Indonesian Doctors' Association since 2011 and Continuing Professional Development (CPD) which comes from the collaboration with the Central Board of the Indonesian Pharmacists' Association since year 2013.

CME is presented for physician colleagues, whereas CPD to pharmacist colleagues, regularly every month in print version through Jurnal CDK or through online that can be accessed through www.kalbemed.com, thus can be utilized independently.

With CME and CPD's availability, both regularly published through Jurnal CDK or online through www.kalbemed.com, it is hoped that fellow physician or pharmacist colleagues in updating their knowledge as well as for SKP collection.

Kalbe at a glance
PT Kalbe Farma Tbk ('Kalbe') was established in 1966 and is one of the biggest public pharmaceutical companies in Southeast Asia. Kalbe has four main divisions that handle reliable and varied brand portfolio; prescription medicines (Cefspan, Brainact, Broadced, etc); over-the-counter medication division (Woods, Promag, Mixagrip, Komix, Fatigon, etc); health drinks (Hydro Coco, Extra Joss, Nitros); nutrition division (ChilKid, Prenagen, Diabetasol, etc); and distribution division. Kalbe currently has more than 20 subsidiaries, 9 production facilities with international standard, and employs more than 17,000 employees dispersed across more than 71 branches throughout Indonesia. From 1991, Kalbe is listed at Indonesia Stock Exchange (IDX:KLBF).

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