The International Conference on Traditional Medicine, Educational Exhibition and Trade Fair (TradMed) 2017 will be held from Thursday (23rd Nov.) to Saturday (25th) at Water’s Edge Hotel, Battaramulla.

This event will be inaugurated under the patronage of President Maithripala Sirisena and Health, Nutrition and Indigenous Medicine Minister Dr. Rajitha Senaratne.

Co-Chair of the Conference and Trade Fair, Prof. Ranil de Silva said that the International Symposium on Traditional and Complimentary Medicine, Educational Exhibition and Trade Fair, organized by the Health, Nutrition and Indigenous Medicine Ministry in collaboration with the World Health Organization and University of Sri Jayewardenepura, has made an effort to amalgamate the Sri Lankan Traditional and Indigenous Medicine (IM) with Science and Technology.

The event aims to explore through an interdisciplinary approach the potential of Sri Lankan Traditional Medicine (TM) to cater to the rising demands for holistic medicine, by integrating the Medical Sciences, basic sciences and other disciplines with Sri Lankan TM, with an overall objective to “share the expertise and novelties in evidence based practices of TM in disease prevention, diagnosis and management; to develop safe, effective, quality and standardized products using modern science and technology, as well as the diagnostic tools and bio-medical information systems in TM whilst instrumentalizing science through private- public partnerships, and novel product development,” Prof. de Silva said.

The event will be attended by over 40 eminent international speakers, entrepreneurs and business investors from USA, UK, Australia, Singapore, Japan, China, India, South Korea, Netherlands, Iran, Nigeria and Thailand – Harvard Medical School, USA, AIST and Japan (7th Innovation Center Worldwide).