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NEWS 1 May 20 2009 Open Web Page !!

We are very happy to tell the good news from Asia.
There is a new movement in the Asian-Pacific area in the field of adult congenital heart disease.
We had an Asia-Pacific Adult Congenital Heart gathering together with ‘The 1st Asia-Pacific Adult CHD Symposium’ on May 29, 2008. This will be a satellite symposium of ‘The 2nd Congress of Asian-Pacific Pediatric Cardiology and Cardiac Surgery Society (PCCS 2008)’, a bi-annual official meeting of the Society, which will be held in Jeju Island, Korea, May 28-30, 2008.

The Korean GUCH Society and the JSACHD (Japanese Society of Adult CHD), initially proposed having a joint meeting of these 2 Societies, together with ISACCD and the Euro GUCH working group of the European Society of Cardiology, at PCCS 2008.
For this new ACHD meeting in the Asia-Pacific region, Jack Colman MD, Former President of ISACCD, and Harald Kaemmerer MD. Former Chair of the Euro GUCH Working Group joined the meeting to represent their Societies. Also, representatives from India, Singapore, Thailand, Taiwan, China, Australia and New Zealand, together with Korea and Japan, joined this meeting.

Then we expanded our plan to host an Asia-Pacific ACHD gathering and established the first meeting of a new Asian-Pacific Adult Congenital Heart Disease Society. The presidents and executive committees/nucleus members of the ISACCD (President: Mike Lanzberg MD) and Euro GUCH (President: Helmut Baumgartner MD) supported our new movement. Also many colleagues in Asia Pacific participated in this program.

We established an Asia-Pacific Society of ACHD in Jeju Island, Korea, May 29, 2008.
The new Society, Asia Pacific Society of Adult CHD (APSACHD) was approved during the Congress of Asian Pacific Pediatric Cardiology Meeting.And this Society would facilitates increasing international collaboration among ISACCD, Euro GUCH and Asian-Pacific ACHD groups.

Future updates of the function and plan of the Society and other details will be provided on this web page as soon as possible. All the people who are interested in ACHD in the Asia-Pacific region are welcome to join this fascinating new Society.

We believe it was a historical moment for Asian Pacific.
However, it is just a beginning of the Society, so we have to make this Society step forward in future. Thank you very much for your kind and continuous support which is always encourage us.

  • Heung Jae Lee M.D, Ph.D,
  • President, Korean Society of Adult Congenital Heart Disease
  • Koichiro Niwa M.D. FACC, Ph. D,
  • President of Japanese Society of Adult Congenital Heart Disease
  • Tentative Acting Presidents of the Asia Pacific Society of Adult CHD (APSACHD)
  • June Huh MD (Korea), Shigeru Tateno MD (Japan)
  • Secretary of the Asia Pacific Society of Adult CHD (APSACHD)
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