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Mr. Chairman, Mrs. Hoet Distinguished Participants, Ladies and Gentlemen,

First of all I would like to thank the organizing committee for inviting me to
speak for this honorable lecture today.

I would like to admit that although I am a physician and I have diabetes, the

disease which Dr.Hoet is a prominent expert. I have never known about Dr. Hoet before.
Thus, preparing this lecture gives me a chance to know Dr. Hoet, and for me Dr. Hoet is
one of a great man of our time especially in the field of medicine and the human subjects

protections in clinical research. Life of Dr. Hoet remind me of a poem written by Henry
Wadsworth Longfellow, an American poet, as follow:

Lives ofgreatmen all remind us,
We can make our lives sublinia

And, departing leave behind us,
Footprints on the sand of time.

This poem is quite well known for Thai people of my age, because it was
translated into a beautiful Thai poem almost one hundred years ago by King Rama V1, who
was praised in my country as a "Scholar King". I am impressed by this poem, therefore it
is my great pleasure and honour to be a speaker in memorable of a great man as DrJoseph
J. Hoet.

Our world today is in the age of globalization. The importance of clinical
research is more and more prominent, to develop better understanding of diseases and to

improve diagnostic and therapeutic methods, both for the existing diseases and the new
emerging diseases alike.

Only in the past two years, the world, in particularly Asia has been threatened by
two new deadly emerging diseases: SARS and Avian Influenza. In fact, Avian 111flUenza

was first transmitted to man seven years ago in 1997, in Hong Kong. We admired the
health authorities and scientists in Hong Kong who made a brave, proper and timely
decision to control the epidemic very effectively. 'rhe contTol measure was immediate