First ever Adult ECMO training course held in the Philippines

CCRG congratulates our friends and collaborators from the Extracorporeal Life Support Organization (ELSO), Asia Pacific ELSO, Critical Care Medicine Unit, The University of Hong Kong and the Queen Mary Hospital Hong Kong on hosting the first Adult ECMO training course in the Philippines.

Clinicians and researchers came together for the two-day course, facilitated by instructors including Dr Simon Sin Wai Ching, Clinical Associate Professor, Critical Care Medicine Unit, The University of Hong Kong, and Dr Mark Ogino, who was inducted into the ELSO Fellowship in 2020.

Organiser Dr Joselito Chavez said the Hong Kong team, led by Dr Sin and Dr Ogino, made the course an excellent opportunity for the local clinicians and ECMO users to have access to the best training possible.

“I would like to thank Prof John Fraser and the Critical Care Research Group for their support from the start of our planning. John’s guidance and help from the onset was of great encouragement to the facilitators as well as the training participants.”

“Having established the COVID-19 Critical Care Consortium prior to the pandemic, CCRG has always been at the forefront of international research. COVID Critical is just one example of how their multinational research projects go beyond borders to support clinicians, researchers and patients all over the world.  

“After visiting their headquarters and laboratories in Brisbane, where I had the chance to meet their exceptional team of researchers from different countries, I truly believe that CCRG has the health of all patients from across the globe as its greatest priority,” said Dr Chavez. 

“My profoundest wishes for more success in the next twenty years.”

Watch highlights from the Philippine Society of ECMO Adult Training Course here.

Drs Simon Ching and Joselito Chavez at CCRG’s Critical care Research International Summit, March 2023.