LAHORE: A four-day 9th annual international conference on 'Bridging theory and practice' will kick off here at a private Institute of health sciences on Wednesday (tomorrow). A large number of doctors, surgeons, and health professionals from all over Pakistan and abroad, including the United States, Poland, Switzerland, Turkey, Malaysia, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates, will participate in the conference. The conference has been preceded by a series of pre-conference workshops.