07 Nov 2005 SGH Presenters Win Best Paper Awards at CSM05 SGH presenters were among the winners of the best paper awards at the inaugural Combined Scientific Meeting. The CSM brought together the resources and expertise of Singapore Health Services, National Healthcare Group and National University of Singapore in a major event for the region’s clinical and biomedical community. Held from 4-6 November 2005 at the Raffles City Convention Centre, the meeting attracted over 7,500 participants. True to its theme “Shaping a New Era in Healthcare”, the meeting covered topical issues affecting medical research and teaching. Topics concerning allied health, family medicine, nursing and quality care were also discussed. The SGH winners of the CSM Awards were:   1. SingHealth Best Allied Health Oral Papers Efficacy of a Short 18-Session Inpatient Rehabilitation Program for Chronic Respiratory Diseases Cindy Ng   2. SingHealth Best Medical Oral Papers A Prospective Randomized Controlled Trial Comparing Bipolar Transurethral Resection in Saline (turis) System and Conventional Monopolar Transurethral Resection of Prostate in Men with Benign Prostate Hyperplasia: A 1 Year’s Clinical Efficacy and Safety Dr Henry Ho   A Clinicopathological Study of Epstein-barr Virus Positive (EBV+) Smooth Muscle Tumours (SMT) in Adult Renal Transplant Recipients Dr Ong Kong Wee   Results from a Randomised Trial on Early Stress Nuclear Scan for Patients Present to the Emergency Department with Chest Pain but Non-diagnostic Electrocardiography Dr Lim Swee Han A Descriptive Epidemiological Review of the SGH VRE Van B Outbreak in March 2005 Dr Fong Yuke Tien   3. SingHealth Best Nursing Oral Papers First Cry Last Cry Kaldip Kaur Effect of Pelvic-Floor Re-Education on Duration and Degree of Urinary Incontinence after Robot-Assisted Laparoscopic Prostatectomy Juriyah Yatim   Is Physical Cooling Necessary? A Nursing Study to Investigate the Effectiveness of Tepid Sponging and Cold Compress in Fever Management of Adult Patients Ang Shin Yuh 4. SingHealth Best Research Oral Papers Surface Expression of Heat Shock Proteins Following UV Exposure Or CD40 Stimulation in Multiple Myeloma (MM) Cells Increases Their Antigenicity and May Lead to the Development of an Effective Anti-mm Vaccine Charles Gullo Cultivation and Characterization of Human Epidermal Stem Cells for Skin Tissue Engineering Ma Dongrui Neurite-Outgrowth Inhibitors in Axon-glial Communication at CNS Nodes of Ranvier Nie Du Yu