It is my honour to welcome everyone to the first National Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation (1^st NECMO) Conference on 5^th to 7^th October 2023 at Le Meridien Hotel, Kuala Lumpur. The Malaysian Cardiothoracic Anaesthesiology and Perfusion Society (MASCAP) is proud to host this inaugural conference. It has been a long and exciting journey for the organising committee to see this to fruition and is an event which is much awaited by the members of the MASCAP and the critical care community.  This conference spans over a period of three days; one day for the pre-conference workshop and two days for the main conference.

The MASCAP continues to work in unison with strategic partners in the healthcare sector to set the stage for a future driven by healthcare technology and innovation as part of its transformation strategy to enhance the quality of the healthcare sector’s outcomes. It is MASCAP’s aim to connect and explore new insights and expertise at a national and international level through networking with other professionals in a multidisciplinary setting. It is also MASCAP’s goal to hold this conference biennially to update knowledge and expertise on one of the most important interventions in difficult-to-manage respiratory and circulatory failure cases, which were experienced during the active waves of the COVID-19 pandemic and shed light on the most important and latest medical practices used and to raise the efficiency of health care.