The Asia Cohort Consortium

ACC Meetings

November 2019 Meeting in Hanoi, Vietnam

Please join us for the 2019 Joint Meeting Asia Cohort Consortium & International Liver Cancer Epidemiology Consortium in Hanoi, Vietnam 4th- 6th November, 2019. More details to follow, as they are available.

Meeting Overview

The purpose of this meeting is to discuss progress in research projects in the ACC and potential collaborations. This year the Asia Cohort Consortium (ACC) and International Liver Cancer Epidemiology Consortium (ILCEC) will hold a Joint Meeting.

Registration

Please fill out the online registration form by Sep.30, 2019.

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

Meeting Details

Dates: November 4-6, 2019

Venue: Vinmec International Hospital

Times City, 458 Minh Khai Street, Hai Ba Trung, Hanoi

Phone: +84-(0)-243-974-3556

Hospital Website and Map:

https://www.vinmec.com/en/benh-vien-da-khoa-quoc-te-vinmec-times-city-17265/da-khoa#!ban-do

Meeting Program

Please note that the program is tentative and details are subject to change. Click here to download PDF.

To download the agenda for whole ACC/ILCEC meeting during Nov.4^th -6^th, please click here.

Time	Topic	Presenter
Nov.4
8:00-10:00	Executive Committee meeting (closed meeting)	Executive Committee members
9:30-10:00	Registration
10:00-10:30	Opening Welcome: Opening remarks	Le Thuy Anh Paolo Boffetta
10:30-11:00	Update of the ACC Coordinating Center	Manami Inoue, Eiko Saito, Sarah K. Abe, Rashedul Islam
11:00-12:00	Cohort Updates
	PERSIAN Cohort	Arash Etemadi
	Taiwan Biobank update	Yi-Ling Lin
	Taiwan Cohort	Xifeng Wu
	Guangxi Cohort	Rui Lin
12:00-13:30	Lunch (Visit to Vinmec Hospital)
13:30-14:00	Plenary lecture	Keun-Young Yoo
14:00-16:30	Progress in ACC research (15 min. each)
	Acute effect of ambient air pollution on health in Northern Vietnam	Nguyen Thi Trang Nhung
	PM concentration mapping from satellite images for health impact assessment in Vietnam	Thanh Thi Nhat Nguyen
	Long-term ambient air pollution and mortality in the ACC, project update.	George Downward
	Household Air Polution Consortuim (HAPCO) updates	Dean Hosgood
15:00-15:30	Poster session (Coffee break)
	Lifetime Overweight and Obesity: Impact on Cancer Incidence and Survival (SURVPOOL)	Isabelle Soerjomataram
	Body mass index and gastroesophageal cancer incidence among Asian population	Sue K. Park
	Association between cardiometabolic multimorbidity and specific mortality in ACC population	Sue K. Park
	Smoking, physical activity and gastroesophageal cancer incidence	Keun-Young Yoo
16:30	Adjournment
Nov.5
8:45-9:00	Registration
9:00-9:15	Introduction to ILCEC	Paolo Boffetta
9:15-10:30	Progress in ACC research (15 min. each)
	Marital status and mortality in Asia	Sarah K. Abe
	Tea and coffee drinking and lung cancer risk	Xiao-ou Shu
	Evaluating risk prediction models for use in lung cancer screening across diverse populations around the world	Xiao-ou Shu
	Calculating attributable risk of lung cancer among never smokers in the ACC	Batel Blechter
	Lung cancer projects updates	Nat Prothman, Qing Lan
10:30-11:00	Coffee break
11:00-11:15	New proposals and research opportunities	Manami Inoue
11:15-11:30	Network analysis of dietary intake, demographics, and comorbidity interaction and cancer incidence in Asian population	Tung Hoang
11:30-12:15	ACC terms and conditions and EC election	EC members
12:15-13:00	General discussion and closing remarks	Paolo Boffetta
13:00-14:00	Lunch
14:00-17:30	ILCEC meeting (ACC members are invited to attend)
18:30	Social dinner

Poster session

We have added a poster session to our program to give new cohorts and researchers an additional opportunity to introduce their work.

We welcome participants to introduce their research/cohorts during the informal poster session on November 4^th . Our hosts in Hanoi have kindly offered to print the posters. Please send your poster to;

Chi Nguyen (v.chinty1@vinmec.com) and (cc@asiacohort.org) by October 28^th, 2019.