PENSA Newsletter September-December 2004, Vol.5 No.3 Message From Editor Dear PENSA members: We have just had a great event at Pattaya, Thailand last month. The cerebration of PENSA's 10th anniversary was held along with the Scientific meeting; the 10th PENSA Congress "The Future of Nutrition Support and cooperation Among the Asian Regions." There are more than 400 participants from all over Asia as well as other part of the world. Invited speakers from European countries and USA gave their impression that the quality of presentation and studies displayed in the meeting met the international standard. Thus, we should be proud of the progress in scientific knowledge in Asia. In addition, it was a great opportunity that most of the founding members of PENSA who met in Chiangrai, Thailand 10 years ago came to join together in this meeting. They are Prof. Zhu-Ming Jiang from China, Prof.Sun Sunatrio from Indonesia, Prof.Hideaki Saito from Japan, Prof. Chomchark Chuntrasakul and Mr.Prinya Chotikul from Thailand. Four abstract in this newsletter derived from this recent meeting. There are "Nutrition education in medical curriculum" by Dr. Rakesh Tandon from India, "Sharing in nutritional support information technology: the media for knowledge" by Dr. Teruyoshi Amagai from Japan, "What is and how to in safe early enteral feeding" by Dr. Tzu-Ming Chang from Taiwan and "Fatter older women have lower mortality" by Dr. Kwok Timothy from Honkong. There are many more interesting topics which will be published in the next newsletter. The next PENSA meeting will be held in Seoul, Korea in October 1st-4th, 2005. The abstracts due is before June 30th, 2005 and early registration is before July 31st, 2005. For more information, you can look at the www.pensa2005.org or send the e-mail to pensa2005@meci.co.kr. Apart from the update scientific program, this meeting will have a special session to allow members from the group of physicians, nurses, pharmacists and dietitians to join together to share their knowledge and practices and to enhance the cooperation among Asian countries. So we are looking forward to meet you there.