JOINT MEETING OF FEMTOS AND TURKISH THORACIC SOCIETY

1. Welcome to JOINT MEETING OF FEMTOS AND TURKISH THORACIC SOCIETY

2. FEMTOS FORUM OF EURASIA-MEDITERRANEAN THORACIC SOCIETIES Ali Kocabas President of FEMTOS

3. FORUM OF EURASIA-MEDITERRENEAN THORACIC SOCIETIES FEMTOS

4. FEMTOS

7. National Societies of FEMTOS • Turkish Thoracic Society • Bulgarian Society of Pulmonary Diseases • Macedonian Respiratory Society • Serbian Respiratory Society • Tunisian Society of Respiratory Diseases • Moroccan Respiratory Society • The Egyptian Society of Cardiothoracic Surgery • National Research Institute of Tuberculosis and Lung Diseases (NRITLD) • Kyrgz Thoracic Society • Georgian Respiratory Association

8. FEMTOS • Population: > 250 million • Chest specialists : >4000

9. FEMTOS Gürcistan Azerbeycan Kazakistan Kırgızistan Georgia Kyrgyzstan Yunanistan Bulgaristan Makedonya Sırbistan Yunanistan Bulgaristan Makedonya Sırbistan Turkey Bulgaria Macedonia Serbia Fas Tunus Mısır İran Fas Tunus Mısır İran Morocco Tunisia Egypt Iran

10. The objectives of FEMTOS To develop professional, scientific and social relations among National Thoracic Societies in Eurasia-Mediterranean region To coordinate the activities of developing lung health and pulmonary medicine in the region

11. Why are we together in FEMTOS ? • Because we have the same: • History • Culture • Problems related to lung health

12. ORGANISATION OF FEMTOS National Thoracic Societies National FEMTOS Commitees National FEMTOS Delegates General Assembly of FEMTOS Executive Committee of FEMTOS

13. Executive Committe of FEMTOS Ali Kocabas (President) Ali Ben Kheder (General Secretary) Muzaffer Metintaş (Treasurer) Dilşad Mungan (International Relations) Mohammed Reza Masjedi (Member) Akbay Sarybaev (Member) Dejan Dokic (Member)

14. Central Office of FEMTOS FEMTOS Turan Güneş Bulvarı, No: 175/19, 06550 Oran, Ankara-Turkey Phone: +90. 312 490 4050 Fax: +90. 312 490 4142 E-mail: toraks@toraks.org.tr

15. Lung Health in the Region

17. To Improve Lung Health in Our Region We have to: • IMPROVE EDUCATION • SUPPORT SCIENTIFIC RESEARCHES • IMPROVE PATIENT CARE • PROMOTE LUNG HEALTH

18. What will we do in 2006? A. TO IMPROVE EDUCATION Joint symposiums of FEMTOS and National Thoracic Societies Electronic Bulletin and Web site Establih a task forces on ‘Speciality training in the region” Exchange program for young investigators and/or residents FEMTOS scholarships for national societies congress/meetings

19. What will we do in 2006? B. TO SUPPORT SCIENTIFIC RESEARCHES To establish a fund for scientific researches, grants and awards from national societies, governments or other sources To organise multicenter scientific studies

20. What will we do in 2006? C.TO IMPROVE PATIENT CARE Planning studies on the situation of patient care in the region Prepare guideliness on common seen lung diseases D.TO PROMOTE LUNG HEALTH Organize world days (world TB, asthma, COPD, no tobacco ) together according the needs of the region

21. Only if we can get together We can improve regional and global lung health !