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Show NEURO-OPHTHALMOLOGY AT LARGE The 4th Asian Neuro-ophthalmology Society Meeting, Taipei, Taiwan, May 15-17, 2008 The 4th Asian Neuro-ophthalmological Society Meeting was held in Taipei, Taiwan, on May 15-17, 2008. This was the first meeting of this society to be held outside Japan. Among the 287 participants, there were 240 from Taiwan, 13 from Japan, 10 from Indonesia, 7 from the United States, 6 from the Philippines, 4 from Korea, 2 each from China and Thailand, and 1 each from Singapore, Afghanistan, and Pakistan. There were 67 posters and 13 free papers, as well as 6 symposia covering optic nerve disorders, basic ophthalmic research, ocular motility, injury neuroprotection and neuroregeneration, central nervous system diseases, and systemic diseases. A highlight of the meeting was the second ‘‘Walsh-in- Asia'' clinicopathologic case conference, begun at the 3rd ASNOS meeting in Tokyo in 2006. Modeled after the Walsh Society meeting in North America, it was moderated by Satoshi Kashii, MD (Osaka, Japan) and Jonathan Trobe, MD. The 5 cases selected by the organizing committee included 3 from Taiwan and 1 each from Indonesia and Japan. Guest neuroradiologist Dr. Mu-Huo Teng from Taiwan and guest neuropathologist Dr. Edwin Munoz from the Philippines provided illuminating commentary and enrichment material. The conference was enthusiastically received and will continue as an ASNOS tradition. Among the special features of the meeting were a glove puppet show and a karaoke show. The meeting organizers were delighted at the strong attendance and the high level of the scientific material, signs that ASNOS is flourishing. The next meeting will be on November 15, 2009, in Tokyo. May-Yung Yen, MD Taipei Veterans General Hospital Taipei, Taiwan The 4th ASNOS Meeting organizing committee. From left to right: Jieh-Ren Jou, MD (Vice-President, 4th ASNOS Organizing Committee, Taipei), An-Guor Wang, MD (Secretary General, 4th ASNOS Organizing Committee, Taipei), Lin-Chung Woung, MD (ASNOS Councilor, Vice-President, 4th ASNOS Organizing Committee, Taipei), May-Yung Yen, MD (President, 4th ASNOS Organizing Committee, Taipei), Rong-Kung Tsai, MD (ASNOS Councilor, Vice-President, 4th ASNOS Organizing Committee, Hualien), Lin-Yuh Kao (Vice-President, 4th ASNOS Organizing Committee, Taipei). 358 J Neuro-Ophthalmol, Vol. 28, No. 4, 2008 |