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September 2016 Meeting in Singapore

Please join us in Singapore for the Asia Cohort Consortium General Membership Meeting on September 28, 2016.

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 August 28, 2016.New Contents

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

Meeting Details: 

The meeting will be held at the following location on September 28, 2016 (all day). 

Level 10 Tahir Foundation
Singapore National University 
12 Science Drive 2, Singapore 117549
 

Meeting Program:  

Draft ACC Program
28th September, 2016

8:00AM-9:30AM

Executive Committee Meeting

 

Conference Rm 2; breakfast sets

9:30AM-9:45AM

Introduction & opening remarks

Chia Kee Seng

Seminar Rm 1

9:45AM-10:45AM

 

Plenary Session 1 (30 mins)

Chair: Prof Chia Kee Seng

Rob V Dam

Plenary Session 2 (30 mins)

Chair: Prof Chia Kee Seng

Nat Rothman

10:45AM-11:15AM

TEA BREAK

L8/L9?

11:15AM-11:30AM

Update of the ACC Coordinating Center

Chair: Prof Manami Inoue

Eiko Saito/Manami Inoue

Seminar Rm 1

 

11:30AM-12:00PM

Tea/coffee and mortality (15 mins)

Chair: Prof. Daehee Kang

Jung Eun Lee

 

Tea drinking and lung cancer risk/mortality (15 mins)

*NEW PROJECT

Chair: Prof. Daehee Kang

Xiao-Ou Shu

 

 

 

12:00PM-1:00PM

Lung cancer among non-smokers (15 mins)

Chair: Paolo Boffetta

Qing Lan

 

Smoking and physical activity (15 mins)

Chair: Paolo Boffetta

Wei Zheng

 

Household air pollution (15 mins)

Chair: Paolo Boffetta

Dean Hosgood

 

Outdoor air pollution (15 mins)

Chair: Paolo Boffetta

Roel Vermeulen

1:00PM-2:30PM

LUNCH

L2 foyer

2:30PM-3:15PM

BMI and gallbladder cancer risk (15 mins)

Chair: Wei Zheng

Isao Oze/his alternate

Seminar Rm 1

 

BMI and thyroid cancer risk (15 mins)

Chair: Wei Zheng

Aesun Shin

 

BMI and colorectal cancer (15 mins)

*NEW PROJECT

Chair: Wei Zheng

Hung Luu

 

 

 

3:15PM-4:15PM

Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma (15 mins)

Chair: Habibul Ahsan

Bryan Bassig

 

Medical conditions and pancreatic cancer (15 mins)

Chair: Habibul Ahsan

Yingsong Lin

 

 

Diabetes and cancer mortality/BMI and mortality in diabetic patients (15 mins)

Chair: Habibul Ahsan

Habibul Ahsan

 

Birth weight, adult height and mortality (15 mins)

*NEW PROJECT

Chair: Habibul Ahsan

Tao Huang

 

 

 

4:15PM-4:30PM

Dhulikhel Heart Study (15 mins)

*NEW COHORT

Chair: Manami Inoue

Rajendra Prasad Koju

4:30PM-4:45PM

Moncohort Study (15 mins)

*NEW COHORT

Chair: Manami Inoue

Davaalkham Dambadarjaa

 

 

 

 

4:45PM-5:30PM

Working group meetings

Salt/salty foods and gastric cancer (15 mins)

*NEW PROJECT                         

 

Minkyo Song

Seminar Rm 1/Conf Rm/Meeting Rm

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Call for Project Proposals:

We invite new project proposals to be considered at our September 2016 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 August 18, 2016.

Hosted by: 

Prof. Chia Kee Seng

Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health

National University of Singapore

 

Singapore International Public Health Conference

The ACC General Membership Meeting will be held as a pre-conference event to 2nd Singapore International Public Health Conference/11th Singapore Public Health & Occupational Medicine Conference in the Grand Copthorne Waterfront Hotel on the 29th - 30th of September. For more details on the conference, please click here. 

 

Hotel Information: 

  1. The nearest train station to the meeting venue is Kent Ridge MRT, so the closest/most convenient hotel would be Park Avenue Rochester Hotel (31 Rochester Drive, Singapore 138637).
  2. Another alternative is the Park Hotel Alexandra  (323 Alexandra Road, Singapore 159972)
  3. Or, if you are staying behind for the SIPHC, you can look at the Grand Copthorne Waterfront Hotel (392 Havelock Road, Singapore 169663) since the event will be held there.
  4. Otherwise, do feel free to look at booking.com for other hotels closer to town if the participants would like to explore Singapore. 

 

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 follow the link below that will have comprehensive information on the visa requirements for non-Singaporeans visiting Singapore: https://www.mfa.gov.sg/content/mfa/consular_information/foreigners_visiting_singapore.html