Vas-Cog Asia was founded in 2012 in Tokyo at APSC 2012. Whilst independent from the Asia Pacific Stroke Organisation (APSO), it maintains close links organizing joint workshops at the Asia Pacific Stroke Conference (APSC) with the 1st in Tokyo 2012, the 2nd in Hong Kong 2013, and the 3rd in Taipei 2014.

Mission Statement

The objective of Vas-Cog Asia is to focus on brain health in Asia where rapidly aging societies with are faced with an increasing prevalence of dementia which may be more related to cerebrovascular risk factors than in the West. This society will promote scientific and social understanding of vascular risk factors for dementia in Asia, and therefore will contribute Asian perspectives on the prevention and treatment of this important disease for all Asian clinicians and scientists interested in stroke.

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Organizing Comittee Members

Vas-Cog Asia directors

as of April 1st, 2019

Country	Name		City	Affiliation	E-mail address
Japan	Koji Abe	阿部康二	Okayama	Okayama University	abekabek@cc.okayama-u.ac.jp
	Toshiya Fukui	福井俊哉	Yokohama	Kawasaki Memorial H.	tfukui@kkh.ne.jp
	Ryuichi Morishita	森下竜一	Osaka	Osaka University	MLE04377@nifty.com
	Shinichiro Uchiyama	内山真一郎	Tokyo	Int’l. U. Health & Welfare	suchiyam@iuhw.ac.jp
	Kazuo Kitagawa	北川一夫	Tokyo	Tokyo Women’s Med. U.	kkitagawa@nij.twmu.ac.jp
	Yoshio Ikeda	池田佳生	Maebashi	Gunma University	ikeday006@gunma-u.ac.jp
	Toru Yamashita (Secretary General)	山下　徹	Okayama	Okayama University	toruyamashita@okayama-u.ac.jp
China	Dehua Chui (Publication Chair)	崔　徳華	Beijing	Peking University	dchui@bimu.edu.cn
	Yan-Jiang Wang	王　延江	Chongqing	Third Military Medical U.	wayaja@163.com
	Jianquan Shi	时　建铨	Nanjing	Nanjing Medical U.	13621591030@163.com
Korea	Hee-Joon Bae	裵　熙俊	Seoul	Seoul National U.	Braindoc@snu.ac.kr
Hong Kong	Vincent Mok	莫　仲棠	Hong Kong	Chinese U. of Hong Kong	vctmok@cuhk.edu.hk
Taiwan	Tsong-Hai Lee (President)	李　宗海	Taipei	Chang Gung Memorial H.	thlee@cgmh.org.tw
	Ming-Chyi Pai	白　明奇	Tainan	National Cheng Kung U.	pair@mail.ncku.edu.tw
	Chaur-Jong Hu (Scientific Chair)	胡　朝榮	Taipei	Taipei Medical U.	chaurjongh@tmu.edu.tw
Philippines	Simeon Marasigan		Manilla	U. Santo Tomas Hosp.	smarasigan21@yahoo.com
Thailand	Vorapun Senanarong (Membership Chair)		Bangkok	Mahidol University	vorapun.sen@mahidol.ac.th
India	Man Mohan Mehndiratta		New Delhi	Delhi University	mmehndi@hotmail.com
	Suvarna Alladi		Hyderabad	Nizam's Institute	alladisuvarna@hotmail.com
	Amitabha Ghosh		Kolkata	Apollo Gleneagles Hosp.	amitabha.ghosh@yahoo.co.in
Vietnam
Malaysia	Phillip Poi		Kuala Lumpur	University of Malaya	philippoi@gmail.com
	Kay Sin Tan		Kuala Lumpur	University of Malaya	tanks_neuro@um.edu.my
Singapore	Nagaendran Kandiah (Education Chair)		Singapore	Singapore National U.	nagaendran_kandiah@nni.com.sg
Indonesia	Paulus Anam Ong		Bandung	Padjadjaran University	anam_ong@yahoo.com
Australia	Ramesh Sahathevan		Melbourne	Ballarat Health Service	rameshsahathevan@gmail.com

(*) Honorary Presidents: Shinichiro Uchiyama (Japan), Ken Nagata (Japan), Byung-Woo Yoon (Korea),
Man Mohan Mehndiratta (India), Christopher Chen (Singapore)

The articles of Vas-Cog Asia society

(Effective from December 1, 2015)

(1) Vas-Cog Asia is an independent society which is dedicated to elucidate the mechanism of vascular factors on dementia primarily in Asian people who has more vascular factors than those in other world area, to develop diagnostic tool/criteria, and to contribute towards developing potential therapy for Asian dementia people.

(2) Vas-Cog Asia society may jointly organize Vas-Cog Asia meeting in conjunction with APSC (Asia Pacific Stroke Conference) to be completely established and also to contribute more for APSC meeting.

(3) Vas-Cog Asia society is composed of regular members, directors, and executive committee (EXCO) members. Vas-Cog Asia society shall regularly publish a newsletter or a journal either independently or jointly with related societies.

(4) One can apply for a member with a recommendation letter from a director, which needs an approval of the director committee. A member is interested in basic and/or clinical sciences of Vas-Cog field, can present a scientific data in the annual meeting, and is entitled to receive occasional notices and an annual newsletter/journal from the society. There is no membership fee for a following few years from 2015.

(5) Directors are the active core members of the society, and thus have to support the society by, for example, attending the annual meeting and actively participating in the scientific presentations and discussions. Directors are also requested to encourage young fellows from their own and other institutions for attending the annual meeting, delivering presentations, and becoming members.

(6) There is no time frame or age limitation of a directorship as long as the person is active in the society. However, a director loses the directorship when becoming inactive, for example absent in 3 consecutive annual meetings.

(7) A new director can be nominated and elected in the annual directors meeting from Asia, based on the dedication and publications on Vas-Cog field. A few directors from Australia and New Zealand are also welcome.

(8) Vas-Cog Asia EXCO will consist of the President, Secretary General, Publication Chair, Education Chair, and Membership Chair. EXCO member is nominated and elected from the directors, and the EXCO membership lasts for 2 years, with 1 renewal for a total of 4 years.

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Meetings

　
　　　　　

Vas-Cog Asia 8

jointing with APSC2019 in Manila

Date: October 2 (Wednesday) 2019, pm 1:30-5:10

Venue: SMX Convention Center, Seashell Lane, Mall of Asia Complex, Pasay City 1300, Philippines

Vas-Cog Asia website: http://www.cc.okayama-u.ac.jp/~vascogasia/

Please also visit our APSC2019 website: http://www.apscmanila2019.org/

Final program of Vas-Cog Asia 8 (Manila, Oct 2, 2019) as of September 29

pm 1:30-1:40 Welcome address (Jose C. Navarro, Man Mohan Mehndiratta, Koji Abe, Tsong-Hai Lee)
pm 1:40-3:10 Lecture 1	Chair: Koji Abe (Okayama) and Vorapun Senanarong (Bangkok)
	pm 1:40-1:55	Feng Feng Tian (Luoyang) Role of autophagy after ischemia/reperfusion injury in RFP-GFP-LC3 transgenic tMCAO mouse model
	pm 1:55-2:10	Toru Yamashita (Okayama) Animal models of vascular cognitive impairment
	pm 2:10-2:30	Vorapun Senanarong (Bangkok) Screening of vascular cognitive impairment: role of memory clinic
	pm 2:30-2:50	Koji Abe (Okayama) Risk factors of vascular cognitive impairment
	pm 2:50-3:10	Paulus Anam Ong (Bandung) Cognitive impairment after acute stroke
pm 3:10-3:26	Group photo and Coffee break
pm 3:26-3:40 Young flash talks (5 min talk + 2 min discussion)	Chair: Paulus Anam Ong (Bandung) and Yan-Jiang Wang (Chongqing)
	(1)Ding Xin (Chengdu): The progress of functional MRI study in vascular cognitive impairment (2) Lei Zhao (Beijing): LPL transcription and cognitive function is regulated by testosterone through DNA methylation
pm 3:40-5:00 Lecture 2 (15 min talk + 5 min discussion)	Chair: Tsong-Hai Lee (Taipei) and Chaur-Jong Hu (Taipei)
	pm 3:40-4:00	Tsong-Hai Lee (Taipei) Vascular cognitive impairment in patients with carotid artery stenosis
	pm 4:00-4:20	Simeon Marasigan (Manila) Biomarkers of small vessel disease related to vascular cognitive impairment
	pm 4:20-4:40	Man Mohan Mehndiratta (New Delhi) 7 stages timeline in Vascular Dementia
	pm 4:40-5:00	Amelia Nur Vidyanti (Yogyakarta/Taipei) Strategy in the prevention of vascular cognitive impairment in VasCog Asia
pm 5:00-5:10 Closing remarks (Koji Abe and Tsong-Hai Lee)

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Vas-Cog Asia 4 (2015, Kuala Lumpur) -- Click to open below

Vas-Cog Asia 3 (2014, Taipei)

Vas-Cog Asia 2 (2013, Hong Kong)

Vas-Cog Asia 1 (2012, Tokyo)

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