November 2015 Meeting in Tokyo, Japan

Please join us in Tokyo for the Asia Cohort Consortium Meeting November 9-10, 2015

Meeting Overview:

The purpose of this meeting is to update members on ACC developments, including cohort progress and cross-cohort activities, and discuss advances in the field which further the ACC mission.

Registration:

Please fill out the online registration form by September 18, 2015.

Anyone who is interested in the ACC meeting and its projects is welcome to attend.

Call for Project Proposals:

We invite new project proposals to be considered at our November 2015 meeting. Submitted proposals will be sent to the Executive Committee (EC) for initial review, and the ones that are deemed scientifically sound will be slated for review at the General Membership Meeting. For more details on proposal submission, please click here. 

Proposals that do not follow this format will be returned to the author for resubmission.

Project proposals should be emailed to the Coordinating Center by September 18, 2015.

Meeting Details: 

All meetings will be held at: 

 Fukutake Learning Theater, The University of Tokyo (http://fukutake.iii.u-tokyo.ac.jp/english/)
    7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0033 Japan.
    Tel: +81-3-5841-0328

Map of area around the ACC meeting site

Subway map of Tokyo

Meeting Program:  

 

	Topic	Presenter
Welcome
09:30 – 10:10	Update on current ACC projects (III)
	Body mass index and risk of lymphoma	Brian Chiu
	Air pollution and cancer	Roel Vermeulen/Qing Lan/ Nat Rothman
10:10 – 10:40	New project proposals (I)
	Sleep hours and disease incidence/mortality risk	Thomas Svensson
	Smokeless tobacco and mortality	Rashmi Sinha
10:40 – 11:00	Coffee break
11:00 – 11:40	New project proposals (II)
	Mortality risk prediction for Asian population: dynamic Bayesian approach and machine learning algorithms	Sue Kyung Park
	Diagnosed with ESRD and comorbidity and death	Sue Kyung Park
	New cohort: Vietnam Cohort Study	Ngoan Tran Le
11:40 – 12:00	General discussion and closing remarks
12:00 – 13:00	Lunch (on-site)
13:00 – 15:30	Working Group meetings (coffee included)           Ÿ   Tea & Coffee Project Ÿ   (To be confirmed)	Jung Eun Lee
16:00 onwards	Guided Ramen Noodle Tour

 

Hotel Information: 

Due to the high season, participants are requested to arrange their own accommodations well in advance. Some of the recommended hotels are as follows;

<Around the University of Tokyo>

1. Forest Hongo

http://www.forest-hongo.com/en/index.html

2. Hotel Kizankan

http://kizankan.co.jp/english/

3. Hotel Park Side

http://www.parkside.co.jp/en/guide.html

4. Mitsui Garden Hotel Ueno

http://www.gardenhotels.co.jp/eng/ueno/

5. Hotel Villa Fontaine Ueno

http://www.hvf.jp/eng/ueno.php

 

<Suidobashi>

1. Tokyo Dome Hotel

http://www.tokyodome-hotels.co.jp/e/

2. Richmond Hotel Tokyo Suidobashi

http://suidobashi.richmondhotel.jp/

3. Hotel Niwa Tokyo

http://www.hotelniwa.jp/english/index.html

 

 <Around Asakusa>

1. Asakusa Central Hotel

http://www.pelican.co.jp/asakusacentralhotel/en/index.html

2. Asakusa View Hotel

http://www.viewhotels.co.jp/asakusa/english/index.html

3. Richmond Hotel Asakusa

http://asakusa.richmondhotel.jp/

 

Hosted by: 

Professor Manami Inoue

AXA Department of Health and Human Security, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo

Contact: 

   The ACC Coordinating Center

    AXA Department of Health and Human Security

    Graduate School of Medicine

    The University of Tokyo

    7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0033, JAPAN

    Email: cc@asiacohort.org   

    Tel: +81-(0)3-5841-3688      

 

Visa Information: 

 Please email the ACC Coordinating Center (cc@asiacohort.org) for an invitation letter for your visa.