The 2020 Tencent Medical ME Conference will be unveiled on November 8. The theme of this year's conference is "Pain Points".
The conference will invite 8 top global medical leaders in different fields, including Zhong Nanshan, Eric Rubin, Ge Junbo, Huang Hefeng, Lu Lin, Cai Sanjun, Peng Baogan, and Zhang Wenhong to focus on the new crown epidemic, infectious diseases, cancer, depression, reproductive medicine and other pioneers In the medical field, starting from the pain points of the body, it decodes the frontier thinking of life for the public.
Academician Zhong Nanshan mentioned in his message to the 2020 Tencent Medical ME Conference: "Mr. Ma Huateng once said that the task of the Internet is to solve the pain points of users. This is very similar to the mission of medicine. We are to solve the most fundamental pain points of human beings, the pain of life. As we have felt during this epidemic, in the face of the pain of life, mankind is an indivisible community with a shared future."
This year’s Tencent Medical ME Conference will use professional medical science to build a bridge between cutting-edge medicine and the public, and connect life wisdom with everyone’s health; build a bridge between medicine and the Internet, and make life’s "pain points" often said on the Internet. Deduction.
Pain is the signal of distress from the micro world in the body to the macro world, hiding the signal of life waiting to be cracked.
Pain is also a collective reflection on life of mankind during the global new crown epidemic.
When will we emerge from the darkest moment of the new crown epidemic?
Is the fast-growing depression an unbreakable spiritual spell?
The "community animal" life has made cancer and cardiovascular diseases younger. How can we save our own health?
How to ensure the health of newborns in a challenging environment such as stress, advanced age, and genetic diseases?
At 14:00 on November 8th, the 2020 Tencent Medical ME Conference will be broadcast live online, let us understand the meaning of "pain points" together.
As one of the major events of Tencent Science Week series, the Tencent Medical ME Conference started in 2019. Tencent Group will bring its Tencent Medical Dictionary, and the world’s top medical journal "New England Journal of Medicine" and its exclusive Chinese digital media "NEJM" Co-hosted by "Frontiers of Medicine".
Tencent Science Week also includes scientific activities such as the Tencent Science WE Conference, the Scientific Exploration Award Presentation Ceremony and X Talk.
2020 Tencent Medical ME Conference Guest Lineup
Zhong Nanshan: The great man is for the country and the people
Zhong Nanshan is a well-known respiratory expert in China and one of the academic leaders who has pushed the development of China's respiratory medicine to the international frontier.
He confirmed the existence of occult asthma for the first time, and his research was cited in the "Global Strategy for Asthma Prevention and Treatment" jointly written by WHO and NIH.
Zhong Nanshan's team proposed early intervention for COPD, and the relevant results were written into the new version of the global COPD guidelines compiled by the WHO.
In 2003, he was on the front line of the fight against the SARS epidemic, fighting against all opinions, insisting on his own opinions, and proposing that a variant of the coronavirus may be the real cause of SARS; when everyone avoided SARS patients, he said: " The patients are sent to me.” In 2020, the 83-year-old he once again rushed to the front line of the epidemic, and the final word was that the new coronavirus must be transmitted from person to person; when everyone is at a loss, he said: “Wuhan must Can pass."
Zhong Nanshan, what he let us remember is not only his superb medical skills, but also his true-seeking spirit of going to the front line of the epidemic resolutely, respecting scientific research facts rather than respecting authority.
At the Tencent Medical ME Conference, let us listen to Zhong Nanshan again.
Eric Rubin: the head of the world's top medical journals
With a history of 208 years, the New England Journal of Medicine is one of the most prestigious and authoritative medical journals in the world.
As the editor-in-chief of the New England Journal of Medicine, Eric Rubin is one of the most outstanding and prolific TB researchers in the world. He has published more than 100 scientific papers and is a recognized leader in the field of infectious diseases.
During the new crown pneumonia epidemic, the New England Journal of Medicine published dozens of papers about the epidemic, covering epidemiology for predicting the trend of the epidemic, virology for isolating virus structure, and medicine for studying symptoms, diagnosis and treatment, etc. Provide timely and authoritative disease information and epidemic prevention support to medical workers around the world.
In addition, they have also worked hard to translate content related to COVID-19 into Chinese so that Chinese medical staff and the public can learn about the latest medical developments.
Human beings have been fighting infectious diseases for thousands of years, and the only constant is the courage and determination of human beings to surpass themselves and continue to evolve.
At this conference, what kind of knowledge will Eric Rubin share with us about infectious diseases in the face of the new crown epidemic that is still not optimistic around the world?
Stay tuned.
Ge Junbo: the saver of life channel
Cardiovascular disease is one of the top killers of Chinese people's health. There are up to 550,000 sudden cardiac deaths every year, and the incidence of cardiovascular disease is still rising.
Ge Junbo is one of the most influential cardiologists in the international medical community. He has created many “industry firsts” in the treatment of coronary heart disease and created one miracle after another.
For the first time in the world, he discovered the specific imaging diagnostic indicators of myocardial bridge-"Half Moon phenomenon" and "Fingertip Phenomenon", and increased the disease detection rate from less than 5% to more than 95%. This achievement is included in the international authority. The textbook of vascular disease, and was named "Gurdmans Phenomenon", which is well-known worldwide.
He pioneered the "Reverse Guide Wire Technology", which increased the success rate of interventional treatment for chronic total occlusion (CTO) of coronary artery disease from less than 65% to more than 90%, and overcame the "last bastion" of coronary intervention for coronary heart disease. More than 90%, countless patients benefited from this.
"Chinese Heart" has always been the persistence and pursuit of Academician Ge Junbo. He presided over the development of my country's first biodegradable coated coronary drug stent, which benefits more than 100,000 patients with coronary heart disease every year and saves 1.5 billion yuan in medical care for the country every year. expenditure.
In 2019, Academician Ge Junbo was awarded the title of "Most Beautiful Doctor". He often told his colleagues: "Being a doctor means responsibility and dedication. The goal is to work hard to solve the patient's pain." He once said, "I always believe that there is no incurable disease in the world. Only when I don’t know the disease, I told myself that as a doctor, you must continue to persevere, explore, and never stop, so that patients can better return to life."
Huang Hefeng: Let health start from the embryo
“In China, on average, a child with a birth defect is born every 30 seconds.” The pain caused by a “birth defect” to a child is immeasurable, and no matter the mind or material, it also brings a huge amount to every family. burden.
Huang Hefeng, academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and director of the Shanghai Key Laboratory of Embryonic Diseases, has been engaged in clinical and basic research in obstetrics and gynecology and reproductive medicine for more than 30 years.
The third-generation IVF technology researched by Huang Hefeng and his team can detect embryos containing disease-causing genes through pre-implantation screening, thereby screening healthy embryos for transfer.
The realization of blocking the inheritance of disease-causing genes from the source brings great hope to families with genetic diseases and parents who unfortunately suffer from genetic rare diseases, so that they can also give birth to healthy babies.
In recent years, the team of Academician Huang Hefeng has integrated 5G, AI and other technologies with obstetrics and gynecology to control hereditary birth defects and rare diseases in the three stages of pre-marital pregnancy, prenatal and newborn, and escort the genetic health of new life.
"Human reproduction is a medical art, and the health of every new life is worth protecting."
Lu Lin: "Rectification" for patients with depression
According to a survey by the World Health Organization, there are more than 350 million people suffering from depression worldwide, and 90 million people suffer from depression in China.
Depression is a highly recurring and highly disabling mental illness. It is the number one disease that causes people to lose their ability to work and live. It is also the main cause of 800,000 suicides worldwide every year.
Lu Lin, dean of Peking University Sixth Hospital, is the first academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in the field of mental health in China.
Facing the pain points in the field of depression treatment, Lu Lin innovatively proposed a new theory of rapid antidepressant effects based on glutamate receptors, providing a theoretical basis and candidate targets for the development of a new generation of rapid antidepressant drugs with no toxic side effects.
Compared with the treatment of depression, how to improve the diagnosis rate of depression patients is more important.
"Everyone is afraid, nervous, embarrassed or even unwilling to talk about mental illness. Reluctance to go to a doctor because of mental illness will only make the disease more and more serious." Lu Lin said that in China, about 70% of depression patients do not receive effective treatment.
"Depression is a treatable disease. In the treatment process, medicine is needed, and care and companionship are needed. It is also very important for people around to understand and treat patients correctly." Lu Lin is eager for the whole society to revise the understanding of depression. .
Cai Sanjun: A firm promoter of early colorectal cancer screening
Colorectal cancer, one of the most common malignant tumors.
In recent years, the incidence of colorectal cancer in my country has climbed to the third place in the spectrum of malignant tumors, which is higher than the world average and the level of developing countries.
Cai Sanjun, chief physician of Colorectal Surgery at Fudan University Cancer Hospital, has been engaged in clinical treatment research related to colorectal cancer for 34 years. He has performed surgical treatments for colorectal cancer patients with superb technology, and enjoys the reputation of "a knife in the abdominal cavity" in the industry.
The clinical research project he participated in has confirmed that the multi-target stool FIT-DNA combined detection technology can achieve colorectal cancer screening earlier and more accurately, which brings hope to improve the cure rate and survival rate of colorectal cancer.
In 2019, the Fudan Cancer Hospital where Cai Sanjun is located increased the 5-year survival rate for colorectal cancer (stage I-IV) to 71.26%, reaching an internationally leading level.
On the one hand, people's overdraft of gastrointestinal health, on the other hand, is the increasing incidence of colorectal cancer and the increasing amount of bowel cancer surgery.
Professor Cai Sanjun has repeatedly emphasized that as long as we do a good job in popularizing colorectal cancer science education for the public, and implement the primary, secondary and tertiary prevention in place, colorectal cancer is preventable and curable.
The "one knife in the abdominal cavity" who has undergone tens of thousands of tumor surgeries hopes to save the public from suffering.
Peng Baogan: Let patients stand up "the backbone of life"
Low back pain is a common disease in the world second only to the incidence of colds. At any time, about 18% of the population is experiencing its torment.
"Patients have low back pain, and doctors have headaches." The cause of lumbar disc-induced pain has always troubled clinicians, and it is also the basis for millions of patients to get treatment from the root cause.
Professor Peng Baogan, Director of Spine Surgery of the Third Medical Center of the PLA General Hospital, has studied the various links of low back pain caused by intervertebral disc degeneration and put forward a new theory of the onset of discogenic low back pain-inflammation mechanism.
On this basis, he and his team proposed an innovative, safe and effective minimally invasive treatment method-intradiscal methylene blue injection therapy. The results were also published in the world-renowned medical journal Pain.
Compared with traditional lumbar fusion, the proposal of intradiscal methylene blue injection therapy may greatly reduce the cost and pain of patients with low back pain.
The cost of one methylene blue is only about 1 yuan. If 100,000 people in China use methylene blue injection to treat discogenic low back pain in a year, the total medical cost can be up to 5 billion yuan.
Human beings have evolved over millions of years. From an arched structure to a shallow S-shaped spine, humans can walk upright. Under the high-intensity and fast-paced work and life, more and more people are getting younger and younger, and more and more people are "bent".
Peng Baogan has been working hard for decades in medicine, which is to let mankind rebuild the "backbone of life."
Zhang Wenhong: "Virus Hunter" in Infectious Diseases
"The rumors are more terrible than the virus itself."
"Everyone is a soldier, insisting on suffocating the virus for two weeks."
With many "hardcore" speeches, Zhang Wenhong became a star expert in the vanguard of the "new crown anti-epidemic".
Behind the humorous image is his deep accumulation and dedication in the professional field for decades.
He once led a team to identify the pathogen of Trypanosoma gambiae within 72 hours for patients who were infected with "African sleeping sickness" for a long time, and applied for symptomatic drugs from the WHO, which pulled the patients back from the line of life and death; he had faced the disease The patient who had been splashed into his eyes by sewage from the pigpen the day before, with keen vigilance, allowed the team to sample the virus in the pigpen, confirming the cross-species transmission of porcine herpes virus for the first time in the global virus history...
Zhang Wenhong once said bluntly that doctors in the infection department are like "virus hunters". Hunters not only have to stay in danger to prevent the spread of diseases, but they are also the vanguards of crushing medical rumors.
"We have outperformed viral hepatitis, and we believe we can outperform the new crown this time."
About Tencent Science Week
Tencent Science Week is a series of scientific activities held in November every year since 2019, when Tencent and the Tencent Foundation responded to the call of "Technology Innovation" and fulfilled the mission and vision of technological corporate social responsibility and "Technology for Good".
The 2020 Tencent Science Week will focus on four conferences including Tencent Science WE Conference, Tencent Medical ME Conference, Scientific Exploration Award Ceremony and X-Talk.
Ma Huateng, Chairman and CEO of Tencent, once said, “Tencent Science Week hopes to make scientists the focus of the spotlight; make scientific exploration a pursuit point for the public, especially young people; and make scientific research a new fashion.” and It shows the original intention of the Tencent Medical ME Conference, "I hope to guide more people to pay attention to life and self-knowledge, improve public health through authoritative medical science, and reduce the pain of illness."