On Feb.15th -16th, The Bridge Medical Summit 2019 hosted by American Chinese Medical Association—ACMA was convened at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston. Upon the invitation of Prof. Zhu Zhenglun, the former President of ACMA, Prof. Zhang Changhua, Vice President of SYSUSH and Director of Digestive Medical Center, Prof. Eddie Cheung were invited to join the Summit.

The Summit spans multiple topics including Translate Scientific Discoveries to Precision Medicine, Targeting Signaling Pathways to Human Diseases, and Frontier in Clinical Medicine. Most of the attendees are faculty, physicians, scientists from world-renowned universities and top-class medical institutes including Harvard Medical School, School of Medicine of Cornell University, MIT, Brigham and Women’s Hospital， University of Colombia etc. President Zhang and Prof. Eddie Cheung respectively lectured titled A C-X-C Chemokine Receptor Type-2-Dominated Crosstalk between Tumor Cells and Macrophages Drives Gastric Cancer Metastasis and Way to Stop Treatment in Chronic Hepatitis B.

An in-depth and extensive discussion on establishing strategic partnerships and future collaboration was conducted between two sides. SYSUSH is the first medical institute in China that maintains a close positive academic relationship with AMCA.  The academic exchange and collaboration prepares the way for future collaborations in joint consultation for complex cases and marks the threshold for a multidimensional international collaboration.

American Chinese Medical Association(ACMA), with over 1000 members working in the different major hospitals and medical institutes in the US, is a professional academic group formed by Chinese American physicians and biomedical scientists. ACMA has strived tirelessly for its mission of “Bridge to a Healthier World” over the past decades. Functioned as a bridge for healthcare professionals between the US and China, ACMA has developed into a premier academic organization to promote healthcare delivery through academic excellence, community service, and medical education.