LAHORE - The second national conference of Pakistan Association of Medical Editors (PAME) will start at the University of Health Sciences (UHS) on Saturday (today).
The theme of two-day conference, which is being organized in collaboration with Eastern Mediterranean Association of Medical Editors (EMAME) and Health Research Advisory Board, is ‘Challenges and Opportunities in Scientific Publishing’.
The conference is targeted at editors, editorial staff, reviewers and referees of biomedical journals besides academicians and medical writers. The guest speakers include Prof M B Rokni, Editor, Iranian Journal of Public Health and Iranian Journal of Parasitology from Tehran University of Health Sciences and Dr Behrooz Astaneh, Editor, Iranian Journal of Medical Sciences from University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran.
T he conference is expected to be attended by more than 300 participants. It will be inaugurated by UHS board of governors’ member Justice Amer Raza Khan and former principal of King Edward Medical College Lahore Prof Khawaja Saadiq Hussain.