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Show 6th Asian Neuro-Ophthalmology Society Meeting and 49th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Neuro-Ophthalmology Society: Kobe, Japan The 6th Meeting of the Asian Neuro-Ophthalmology Society (ASNOS) was held at the Kobe International Conference Center in Kobe, Japan, on November 25-27, 2011, in conjunction with the 49th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Neuro-Ophthalmology Society (JNOS). The ASNOS was organized by Satoshi Kashii, MD, PhD, Department of Visual Sciences and Ophthalmology, Aichi Shukutoku University, in association with Osamu Mimura, MD, PhD, Department of Ophthalmology, Hyogo College of Medicine, who hosted the domestic JNOS (Fig. 1). There were 642 participants at both meetings, including attendees from Japan, China, Korea, Indonesia, Thailand, Singapore, Philippines, and India. The Walsh in Asia session kicked off the ASNOS meeting. This was the fourth time this clinicopathologic case presen-tation conference was held in the style of the Frank B. Walsh Society Meeting. Walsh in Asia was initially introduced into ASNOS by Dr. Johathan Trobe's University of Michigan team, in collaboration with the Ronald M. Burde Clinical Neuro-Ophthalmology Society of Japan. Neuro-pathologist, Edwin L. Munoz, MD, St. Luke's Medical Center, Philip-pines, and neuro-radiologist, Kei Yamada, MD, Kyoto Pre-fectural University of Medicine, Japan, provided insightful and educational commentary to a number of challenging and interesting cases. These included POEMS syndrome (vs Cas-tleman disease), primary chiasmal involvement with large B-cell malignant lymphoma, and melanoma-associated retinopathy. Scientific sessions comprised 87 platform and poster sessions (Table 1). Two featured lectures were given at the ASNOS meeting by Christian Lueck, MD, Canberra, Aus-tralia, on "Disorders of Cortical Visual Processing" and Lanning Kline, MD, Birmingham, Alabama, on "Publishing in Neuro-Ophthalmology: The Art & Science." The JNOS special lectures were delivered by Ryuji Kaji, MD, PhD, Tokushima, Japan, on "Botulinum Toxin Therapy in Ophthalmology," and Yasuto Itoyama, MD, PhD, Tokyo, Japan, on "Multiple Sclerosis and Neuromye-litis Optica." The JNOS Educational lecture was given by Masato Hashimoto, MD, PhD, on "Diagnostic MR Imaging for Neuro-Ophthalmology." A symposium on "Neuro-Ophthalmology: From Diagnosis to Treatment" was held at a JNOS general session. A special recognition award was presented to William F. Hoyt, MD, for his promotion and advancement of clinical neuro-ophthalmology in Asia. Many of his former fellows in Japan and Asia gathered together to celebrate this event. The next ASNOS will be held in Indonesia in 2013. Satoshi Kashii, MD, PhD Department of Visual Sciences and Ophthalmology, Aichi Shukutoku University, Nagakute-cho, Japan FIG. 1. ASNOS program organizers: ASNOS-Satoshi Kashii (left); JNOS-Osamu Mimura (right). TABLE 1. Summary of ASNOS and JNOS Meetings ASNOS JNOS Oral presentations 6 42 Poster presentations 27 12 Symposia Walsh in Asia (6) From Diagnosis to Treatment (5) Special lectures 2 2 Educational lecture 0 1 Brown bag seminars 0 7 Kashii: J Neuro-Ophthalmol 2012; 32: 97-97 97 Neuro-Ophthalmology News Section Editor: Kathleen B. Digre, MD Copyright © North American Neuro-Ophthalmology Society. Unauthorized reproduction of this article is prohibited. |
