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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 area. It has close links with all regional national societies of nephrology, and with the International Society of Nephrology (ISN).The APSN aims to cater specifically for the needs of the Nephrology community throughout the region, especially fostering the development of high quality nephrology in the less well developed countries of the region.

A Message from the President 2011

Dear Member

I hope this letter finds you well. I am President of the Asian Pacific Society of Nephrology (APSN), and my tenure as president will continue until the 13^th Asian Pacific Congress of Nephrology (APCN) which will be held in Hong Kong in 2013.  With your cooperation and support, I feel that I can fulfill the great responsibilities before me.

First of all, on behalf of the Japanese people I would like to thank you for your sympathy after the disaster on March 11, 2011.  I would also like to express my great sympathy to the members of Thailand Society of Nephrology concerning the severe flooding this year. Since we are bound to each other by close friendship, we are able to improve our situations. Bonds of friendship (Kizuna in Japanese) are very important for human beings.  In my letter as the new President of APSN last year, I cherished the 3Cs, Communication, Collaboration and Coordination, as principles of my duties in this society. If all our membership would apply the 3Cs at all times, it would encourage more cooperative relationships.

I would like to introduce the activities of the APSN for this year to our members.

1.    Official Journal of the APSN, Nephrology

We have selected three valuable manuscripts from Nephrology 2010 as follows alphabetically:

1) Dr. Andrew ADVANI et al. (Canada): Inhibition of the epidermal growth factor receptor preserves podocytes and attenuates albuminuria in experimental diabetic nephropathy (NEP-2010-0384),

2) Dr. Hideki KIMURA et al. (Japan): Smaller LDL size as a possible risk factor for the prevalence of coronary artery diseases in hemodialysis patients- Association of CETP and the hepatic lipase gene polymorphiscm (NEP-2010-0297) and

3) Dr. Tzung-Hai YEN et al. (Taiwan): High incidence and recurrence of trasitional cell carcinoma in Taiwanese patients with end-stage renal disease (NEP-2010-0149). Congratulations to these three doctors.  I hope these nephrologists will continue to achieve excellent results.

I would like to continue this Best Paper Award and also prepare  an educational section in the home page of our society.

2.    CME

Members of the APSN and ISN-COMGAN have given lectures in Asian Countries many times. I visited Asian cities such as Urumqi, Jakarta, Surabaya, Bangkok, Taipei and Kaohsiung and gave lectures as the President of the APSN. I hope there will be further activities of the CME next year.

3.    Communications

At the Annual Meeting of the ASN in Philadelphia this year,  Committee members of the APSN communicated with members of the ISN-Asian Committee. I believe that such meetings will be fruitful in the future.

The 5^th Congress of the International Society for Hemodialyis (ISHD 2012, President: Professor Chen Hung-Chung, Kaohsiung Medical Univesity) will be held on August 3-5, 2012 in Taipei. I would like the members of the APSN to attend and discuss many issues on hemodialysis.

Finally, I sincerely seek your support and request your best efforts in achieving further advancement of this society.

Yasuhiko TOMINO, MD, PhD

President , Asian Pacific Society of Nephrology

Professor, Division of Nephrology, Department of Internal Medicine,

Juntendo University Faculty of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan

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