Welcome Greeting

Takashi Akasaka, M.D., Ph.D.
Congress Chairperson,
Asian Pacific Society of Cardiology Congress 2020
Professor, Department of Cardiovascular Medicine,
Wakayama Medical University, Wakayama

Dear friends and APSC members;

It is our great honor and privilege to announce that Asian Pacific Society of Cardiology (APSC) 2020 Congress will be organized by Japanese Circulation Society (JCS) in Kyoto, the old capital city of Japan from July 30 to August 1, 2020 in conjunction with the annual scientific meeting of JCS, which will be held from July 31 to August 2, 2020.
On behalf of the member of JCS and as the congress chairperson, I would like to welcome all participants from Asian Pacific Countries and Communities, especially the member of APSC, to the meeting in Kyoto, and I would like to express my sincere appreciation to the executive council members of APSC for giving us a great chance to host the congress in Kyoto in 2020.
Main theme of APSC 2020 is “Evolution and Collaboration”. As all know very well, marked development has been observed in daily clinical practice and further advancement would be expected in the field of cardiovascular medicine in Asian Pacific area. It seems to be very important to summarize these advancement at the moment for making medical evidences in Asia. Collaboration among Asian countries and communities may allow us to achieve these actions as part of evolution. For further development of APSC, much more collaboration would be required with Asian Pacific countries and communities in the field of medical information and exchange program among us, especially among next generation within APSC.

According to the main theme of APSC 2020, the organizing committee and the scientific committee are planning to have several symposia and panel discussions about recent topics in cooperating with the presidents of several sister societies of APSC in the fields of cardiology including adult congenital heart disease, arrythmia, basic science, coronary intervention, echocardiography, heart failure, hypertension, etc.
Case based video- sessions by the experts in the fields of coronary and structural interventions will be structured as the educational purpose.
To understand and exchange the real world circumstance of lady cardiologists in APSC regions and the problems of daily clinical practice in each region, the special sessions entitled “women cardiologists in each country” and “clinical practice in each zone in APSC” will also be organized by the lady leaders and the vice presidents in each APSC zone.
Joint symposia between APSC, ESC, JCS and other societies will be proposed to make much deeper collaboration each other.
For younger generations under 40 years old, we will have case competition sessions in the fields of arrythmia, congenital heart disease, heart failure, hypertension, imaging, ischemia, valvular heart disease and others including success case, bail out case, best imaging case, educational case, rare case, etc. and active and educational discussion would be expected with several experts in each fields.
To know the annual scientific meeting of JCS, all scientific abstracts in APSC will be presented in the seamless way in each session of JCS, and I would be so happy if all participants from APSC recognize the annual scientific meeting of JCS as one of the important scientific meeting in the field of cardiology in the world and confirm to attend JCS every year.

Finally, Kyoto is the old capital city of Japan and one of the most favorite cities to visit for the foreign tourists. I hope you all would enjoy the congress and the traditional Japanese culture in Kyoto. Join us to APSC in Kyoto in March 2020 !