Arif Santoso

It was exciting experience for me attended to this very prestigious session, The Asian Pacific Society of Respirology - International Symposium on Respiratory Disease (APSR-ISRD), during the American Thoracic Society (ATS) event at San Diego 2018.

Furthermore, I would like to express my gratitude and appreciation for the invitation and opportunity to join at the event. It was a pleasure to follow the whole session including poster discussion, oral presentation by awardees and the lecture from the experts. By joining the session, I could meet and discuss with the very excellent and outstanding young investigators from around the Asia-Pacific region.

At the poster and oral presentation session, we had the opportunity to share and discuss very interesting topics that each investigator had researched. We also learned bright ideas from the expert lectures. I feel lucky to have been able to join the session, and it was important to increase my knowledge, to expand networking, and to encourage my research further.

The experience to give my oral presentation in front of an audiences was very useful for my personal development and important for my future. It was also challenging to have presentation and to share the information related my research accurately, concisely and understandably to the audience within the very tight time slot.

Finally, in the end of session, I was very proud to receive the award given directly by the president of the APSR and president of the ATS, Prof. Kwun Fong and Prof. Marc Moss, respectively.