13 April 2019 Philip K.T. Li

President Asian Pacific Society of Nephrology (2016-2019)

Chief of Nephrology & Consultant Honorary Professor of Medicine Director, CUHK Carol & Richard Yu PD Research Centre Department of Medicine and Therapeutics Prince of Wales Hospital Chinese University of Hong Kong Hong Kong Asian Pacific Society of Nephrology

The Asian Pacific Society of Nephrology aims to promote and encourage the advancement of scientific knowledge and research in all aspects of nephrology, and to promote the exchange and dissemination of this knowledge in the Asian Pacific region. APSN Past Presidents (1)

• Founders: • Kenzo Oshima • Priscilla Kincaid-Smith

• Interim President 1983-1986 • Priscilla Kincaid-Smith

• President 1986-1990 • Priscilla Kincaid-Smith APSN Past Presidents (2) • 1990-1992 • 2003-2005 • Michinobu Hatano • Hideto Sakai • 1992-1995 • 2005-2008 • Kirpal S. Chugh • Gavin Becker • 1995-1997 • 2008-2010 • Robert C. Atkins • Tak Mao Chan • 1997-2000 • 2010-2013 • Visith Sitprija • Yasuhiko Tomino • 2000-2003 • 2013-2016 • Myung-Jae Kim • David Harris • 2016-2019 • Philip Li Kenzo Oshima (1907-2008)

• In 1959 he helped organize and became President of the Japanese Society of Nephrology. • In 1979 he served as convenor and President of the First Congress of the Asian-Pacific Society of Nephrology in Tokyo • In 1990 was the President of the Eleventh Congress of the International Society of Nephrology, in Tokyo. Priscilla Kincaid-Smith (1926-2015)

• 1970–1972 • President, Australasian Society of Nephrology • 1972–1975 • President, International Society of Nephrology • 1986–1988 • President, Royal Australasian College of Physicians • 1986–1990 • President, Asian Pacific Society of Nephrology Priscilla Kincaid Smith and Philip Li in ISN APSN 2005 Congress Singapore Kirpal Chugh (1932-2017)

• 1992 • Congress President • 5th APCN – Delhi, India

• 1992–1995 • President, APSN Kirpal Chugh and Philip Li in Port Blair, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, India 2013 APSN Past Presidents (2) • 1990-1992 • 2003-2005 • Michinobu Hatano • Hideto Sakai • 1992-1995 • 2005-2008 • Kirpal S. Chugh • Gavin Becker • 1995-1997 • 2008-2010 • Robert C. Atkins • Tak Mao Chan • 1997-2000 • 2010-2013 • Visith Sitprija • Yasuhiko Tomino • 2000-2003 • 2013-2016 • Myung-Jae Kim • David Harris • 2016-2019 • Philip Li 14th APCN Tokyo 16th May 2014 9 APSN Presidents

David Tak Mao Hideto Chan Philip Li Harris Yasuhiko Sakai 2008-10 2016-9 2013-6 Tomino 2003-5 2010-3

Myung-Jae Gavin Kirpal Visith Kim Becker Chugh Sitprija 2000-3 2005-8 1992-5 1997-2000

14th APCN Tokyo 16th May 2014 APCN Congresses 1979 Foundation Meeting – Tokyo, Japan 1983 2nd Congress APSN – Melbourne, Australia 1986 3rd Congress APSN – Singapore 1990 4th Congress APSN – Beijing, China 1992 5th Congress APSN – Delhi, India 1995 6th Congress APSN – Hong Kong 1997 7th Congress APSN – Sydney, Australia - Partner with ISN & ANZSN 2000 8th Congress APSN – Taipei, Taiwan 2003 9th Congress APSN – Pattaya, Thailand 2005 10th Congress APSN – Singapore - Partner with ISN & SSN 2008 11th Congress APSN – Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia 2010 12th Congress APSN – Seoul, Korea 2013 WCN (ISN- APSN- HKSN) – Hong Kong - Partner with ISN & HKSN 2014 14th Congress APSN – Tokyo, Japan 2016 15th Congress APSN – Perth, Australia 2018 16th Congress APSN – Beijing, China 2019 17th Congress APSN (40th Anniversary) - Partner with ISN & ANZSN WCN (ISN – APSN – ANZSN) – Melbourne, Australia Kenzo Oshima (1907-2008)

Congress President, APCN 1979

Michinobu Hatano

President, APSN 1990-2

Michinobu Hatano(L), Kenzo Oshima (R) In Tokyo 1990 Photo by Kiyoshi Kurokawa Priscilla Kincaid Smith (1926-2015)

Congress President, APCN 1983 President, APSN, 1986–1990 Kidney International, Vol. 21(1982), pp. 671—6 72

Gavin Becker

Congress Secretary, APCN 1983 President, APSN, 2005-8 1986 3rd APCN – Singapore

Khoo Oon Teik (1921-2012) Cheng Hong LIM (1930-2010) Congress President, 3rd APCN LOC Chair, 3rd APCN

Founder Founding President, National Kidney Foundation Singapore 1969 Singapore Society of Nephrology 1972

1986 3rd APCN – Singapore The 4th APCN Oct 15-20, 1990. Beijing, China

Lei-Shi Li (1926–2010)

Congress President, APCN 1990 Kirpal Chugh (1932–2017)

Congress President, APCN 1992 President, APSN, 1992-5 6th Asian Pacific Congress of Nephrology Hong Kong 1995

Ignatius Cheng

Congress President, APCN 1995 Picture of APCN 2

Ignatius KS TM Philip Cheng Chugh Chan Li

6th Asian Pacific Congress of Nephrology Hong Kong 1995 1997 7th APCN – Sydney, Australia - Partner with ISN & ANZSN

Robert C Atkins

Congress President, APCN 1997 President, APSN, 1995-7 Philip Li and Bob Atkins in ISN Prevention Meeting Hong Kong 2004 The 8th APCN March 26-30, 2000. Taipei, Taiwan

Wu Chang YANG

Congress President, APCN 2000 2003 9th APCN – Pattaya, Thailand Visith Sitprija

Congress President, APCN 2003 President, APSN 1997-2000 2005 10th APCN / 3rd WCN – Singapore - Partner with ISN & SSN

Keng Thye WOO

Congress President, APCN 2005 2008 11th APCN – Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Zaki Morad

Congress President, APCN 2008 2008 11th APCN – Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia 2008 11th APCN – Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia 12th APCN – Seoul, Korea 2010

Ho-Yung LEE

Congress President, APCN 2010 12th APCN – Seoul, Korea 2010 12th APCN – Seoul, Korea 2010 2013 WCN (ISN- APSN- HKSN) – Hong Kong - Partner with ISN & HKSN 2013 WCN (ISN- APSN- HKSN) – Hong Kong - Partner with ISN & HKSN

John Feehally Philip Li

WCN 2013 WCN 2013 Congress LOC Chair & President Scientific Co-Chair

ISN President APSN President 2011-3 2016-9 2013 WCN (ISN- APSN- HKSN) – Hong Kong - Partner with ISN & HKSN

Congratulatory Message from Director General of WHO, Dr. Margaret Chan 2013 WCN (ISN- APSN- HKSN) – Hong Kong - Partner with ISN & HKSN 14th APCN 2014 – Tokyo, Japan

Yasuhiko Tomino

Congress President, APCN 2014 President, APSN, 2010-3 14th APCN 2014 – Tokyo, Japan 15th APCN 2016 – Perth, Australia

Paolo Ferrari

Congress President, APCN 2016 15th APCN 2016 – Perth, Australia

Xueqing Philip Paolo David Masaomi Sydney Yu Li Ferrari Harris Nangaku Tang 16th APCN 2018 – Beijing China

Xueqing YU

Congress President, APCN 2018 16th APCN 2018 – Beijing China 16th APCN 2018 – Beijing China 16th APCN 2018 – Beijing China 16th APCN 2018 – Beijing China

Over 11,000 delegates 16th APCN 2018 – Beijing China

With Young Nephrologists from Asian Pacific Region

Rob Walker APSN Secretary

Peter Kerr Philip Li David Harris LOC Chair APSN President ISN President WCN 2019 WCN 2019 Congress President WCN 2019 APSN Awards

Priscilla Kincaid-Smith Kenzo Oshima Award Award • Dr Keng Thye Woo (2005) • Dr Gavin Becker (2005) • Dr Kiyoshi Kurokawa (2008) • Dr Robert C Atkins (2008) • Dr Kar Neng Lai (2010) • Dr Hideto Sakai (2010) • Dr Sei Sasaki (2014) • Dr Daniel T M Chan (2014) • Dr Stephen R Holdsworth (2016) • Dr K S Chugh (2016) • Dr Visith Sitprija (2018) APSN Named Lectures Ross Bailey (1941-1997) Lectures

• Kyoshi Kurokawa 2005 • David Harris 2008 • Kar Neng Lai 2010 • Suhnggwon Kim 2014 • Vivek Jha 2016 APSN Named Lectures Haiyan Wang (1937-2014) Lectures • Minghui Zhao 2018 APSN activities 2016-2019 2016 Asian Pacific Society of Nephrology

Increase to

8 Sponsoring Societies

and 13 Affiliated Societies Nephrology • Official Journal of APSN • Very high submission rate – about 789 for the year 2018. • The Impact factor has gone up to 2.17. • In 2018, 6,619 institutions offered access to the latest contents in Nephrology via either a Wiley License or a traditional (title-by-title) subscription. Our philanthropic initiatives extended low-cost or free access to current content to 7,911 developing world institutions. In 2018, EBSCO allows 2,133 institutions accessed • A total of 16,663 academic institutions globally got access to Nephrology

Editor-in Chief

BECKER Gavin, Australia (1995–2003) HARRIS David, Australia (2004–2010) KERR Peter, Australia (2011–2018) TANG Sydney, Hong Kong (2018 - ) • The Journal is now On-line only and on-line access for all members of all APSN Societies is now available, either through the APSN website (Members Only area) or via local society websites. In 2018, 5 APSN CME courses

• CME in APCN Beijing, China with CSN (March 28, 2018) • CME in Seoul, Korea with KSN (May 18, 2018) • CME in Niigata, Japan with JSN (Jun 7, 2018) • CME in Sydney, Australia with ANZSN (Sept 8-9, 2018) • CME in Hong Kong with HKSN (Sept 29, 2018)

• Supporting by travel grants to over 120 Young Nephrologists from AP region to attend in 2018 APSN/CSN CME course in APCN (March 28, 2018 in Beijing, China )

• 1790 young nephrologists, nurses and researchers from Asian Pacific region attended this course, including 31 young nephrologists from LIC or LMIC supported by APSN and CSN. • Five courses and 50 lectures were presented, among which 3 were in English (renal nursing course, diabetic kidney disease and methodology of renal research) and 2 were in Chinese (basic research in nephrology and clinical nephrology). APSN/KSN CME course (May 18, 2018 in Seoul, Korea) • 80 nephrologists, including young doctors from 6 countries from the Asia Pacific Region attended CME (China, Japan, India, Malaysia, Pakistan and Sri Lanka). • The topics of this course include IgA nephropathy, management of diabetic nephropathy, drug induced kidney injury, biomarkers of AKI, dialysis modality selection, prevention and management of PD-related peritonitis, evaluation and care of living kidney donors and transplantation immunology. APSN/JSN CME course (June 7,2018 in Niigata, Japan)

• 60 physicians and researchers attended this course this year, including two young nephrologists from HIC to encourage exchanges between young nephrologists from various countries and region. • (Bangladesh, Indonesia, India, Malaysia, Pakistan, Thailand, Sri Lanka, Mongolia, China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Korea and Japan). • Topics of lectures include CKD-MBD, renal anemia and educational, case- based presentations on electrolyte disorder and renal transplantation. APSN/ANZSN CME course (September 8-9, 2018 in Sydney, Australia)

• APSN and ANZSN jointly sponsored 13 participants from 9 countries and regions (Pakistan, India, China, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Malaysia, Japan, Korea and Hong Kong) • This CME course was held in conjunction with the Nephrology Transplantation Update Course and a broad range of topics were covered in the fields of CKD, ESKD and transplantation, including diabetes and its complication, CKD, AKI, ESRD, genetic and clinical nephrology, kidney transplantation, post kidney transplantation, and update of research. APSN/ HKSN/HKCP CME course (September 29, 2018 in Hong Kong)

• 103 participants attended the Meeting. 23 trainees from 12 countries (Cambodia, Guangxi of China, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Vietnam and Australia) • This CME course was co-organized with the Hong Kong College of Physicians. • Among the speakers are current Presidents of APSN (Philip Li), ASN (Mark Okusa), ERA-EDTA (Carmine Zoccali), CSN (Xueqing Yu) and HKSN (Sydney Tang). Asian Pacific Clinical Practice Recommendations • Prof CC Szeto (Hong Kong) has helped the Society to form a group to study the current gaps in the clinical practice guidelines for the Asian Pacific region, notably in the good clinical practice despite resource limitations in the LIC and LMIC in the region. • The first Asian Pacific Clinical Practice Recommendation, now in progress, will be on “Evaluation and management of diabetic nephropathy” under a group comprising 14 members with good mix between LMIC and HIC countries. The group will be led by Dr Adrian Liew of Singapore. • APSN will commission an Evidence Review Team to facilitate the work.

Malaysia (Dr Sunita Bavanandan) Taiwan (Dr Chang Jer-Ming) Thailand (Dr Som-Chai Ong) Japan (Dr Hirokazu Okada) Indonesia (Dr Aida Lydia Sutranto) Korea (Dr Oh Kook Hwan) Philippines (Dr Melvin Marcial) China (Dr Fan Fan Hou) Vietnam (Dr Hai Phan Hai An) ANZ (Dr Wong Muh Geot) India (Dr Narayan Prasad) Singapore (Dr Adrian Liew) Hong Kong (Dr Sydney Tang) Brunei (Dr Jackson Tan) APSN AKI Initiatives APSN AKI Committee • APSN AKI Committee was formed with Prof Zoltan Endre as Chair, Dr Li Yang as Vice Chair and Dr Jinn Yang Chen as Secretary. Prof Philip Li as Advisor. • APSN will partner with Malaysian Society of Nephrology and CRRT as Co- Organizer for the 3rd Asian Pacific AKI CRRT to be held in Malaysia in Oct 2019. • The AKI Committee will organize a study on AKI incidence in rural hospitals in Asian Pacific region, probably pilot in Australia, Malaysia, Taiwan and Thailand APSN Young Nephrologists Committee (YNC)

• The Chair : Dr Jack Ng (Hong Kong), • Secretary: Dr Kornchanok Vareesangthip (Thailand) • IT coordinator : Dr Amrish Krishnan (Fiji). • The YNC now has 12 members coming from (Australia, Bangladesh, Brunei, Cambodia, China, Fiji, Hong Kong, India, Japan, Korea, Taiwan and Thailand). APSN Executive and Council Members 2019 APSN 40th Anniversary dinner 13th April 2019 Melbourne Cake cutting celebration APSN 40th Anniversary dinner 13th April 2019 Melbourne