Dear Fellow Members
 As this is my first message to all of you since I have been elected President of our Society, I would like to thank personally everybody for the great support that in the last 5 years all of you have done to make the APHS a leading Surgical Society in Asia-Pacific region.
We took many important steps to make our Society grow from a small group to almost 1000 members so far. Our Annual Congress has become an important yearly appointment for hernia experts in the Region and Worldwide; the endeavor for the APHS to lead the region in a worldwide panorama has been achieved by partnering the International Congress in Berlin together with the European and American Hernia Societies.. More can be listed down, of what we achieved since we found the Society in Bali, but as for myself, my philosophy is to continue to grow and we should always look at the future for new opportunity, new idea of how to enhance, expand and improve our surgical community.
During my term and with the help of the Executive Committee, I wish to promote and expand the APHS Fellowship program, so more junior colleagues can benefits from training; to widen the number of Centre of Excellence in the Region; to expand the National Chapters as a bridge with local surgical communities; to promote modern hernia surgery in developing area by making our website a centre of knowledge with video, scientific reports for colleagues that have limited resources access and more.
I don’t’ want to be rhetoric but the success of the APHS is because, as Henry Ford said:
- Coming Together is a beginning
- Keeping together is progress
- Working together is Success
and, working together with friends like Pradeep Chowbey, Anil Sharma, Michael Li, Ray Melchor, Barlian Sutedja, Boy Hilvano, Youk Bai Choi, Ching-Shui Huang and Cheah Wei Keat (and I apologize if I missed anyone else) has been crucial to make APHS successful.
Please keep in touch with us by surfing our website, reading our newsletter and do not hesitate to contact us via email for any suggestions and queries
Once again, I wish all of you the best
Davide Lomanto
President, APHS
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