APCSS

Hiroyuki Nakase, M.D.

President of 14th Asia Pacific Cervical Spine Society
Chairman of 14th Asia Pacific Cervical Spine Society Meeting

Dear distinguished guests and colleagues and friends,
It is a great honor and pleasure to host the long-established and prestigious meeting of 14th Annual Conference of the Asia Pacific Cervical Spine Society (APCSS 2020), which will take place in Osaka, Japan on November 13-14, 2020.

APCSS is founded in 2007 as a collaborative organization of spine surgeons and professionals specialized in cervical spine, with a primary interest in advancing excellence in spine patient care, research and education, in Asia Pacific region. The society has been planning and aiming to stimulate new techniques for the treatment of cervical spine diseases that would be beneficial for the spine surgeons. Another mission of the society is consolidation of the lasting friendship among the members of each country.

APCSS 2020 in Osaka will be organized around the theme ''Technological Innovation and Future in Cervical Spine Surgery", and we will share and exchange our tradition and innovation. The conference holds it jointly with The 82nd Society for Kinki Spinal Surgery. Two societies cooperate and conduct the conference. On behalf of the APCSS 2020 committee, we are pleased to invite you to join the upcoming conference.

Osaka is Japan's third-largest city, and the metropolis of the Kansai region. Osaka is a port city, and historically the merchant capital of Japan. Also, Osaka is gourmet city, and has long identified itself by kuidaore ("ruinous eating") as opposed to Kyoto's kidaore ("ruinous dressing"). Visitors will appreciate the more neighborly ethos of Osaka, in contrast to the mind-your-own-business mood of Tokyo.

In closing, I would be pleased and honored if you would participate at the conference. Osaka is about to get ready for you all. We would like prepare Nara-sightseeing tour as well. We sincerely look forward to welcoming you in Osaka in the colorful autumn of 2020.

Hiroyuki Nakase, M.D.
Chairman of APCSS 2020

Cheng-Hsing Kao , M.D.

President of 13th Asia Pacific Cervical Spine Society
Chairman of 13th Asia Pacific Cervical Spine Society Meeting

Dear Colleagues,
It’s my great pleasure to hold 13th Annual Conference of the Asia Pacific Cervical Spine Society (APCSS 2019), which will take place in Kaohsiung, Taiwan on November 08-09, 2019.

Cervical Spine Society (APCSS) founded in 2007, is one of the most renowned and historical societies of the world in Cervical Spine Surgery. APCSS provides a unique platform for professionals in this field to discuss the progress and excite new discoveries. In this year’s meeting, we will get together again to share the cutting-edge knowledge and experiences.

Hopefully, this conference will strengthen the relation and friendship between the cervical spinal surgeons across the countries in Asia Pacific; we sincerely hope that everyone will enjoy the wonderful meeting in 2019.

To celebrate 13 years anniversary, we are looking forward to see you in Kaohsiung, Taiwan.

Sincerely,

Cheng-Hsing Kao , M.D.
Chairman of APCSS 2019

Prof Shashank S Kale

President of 12th Asia Pacific Cervical Spine Society
Chairman of 12th Asia Pacific Cervical Spine Society Meeting

Dear Friends,

On behalf of the Organizing Committee, it is our great pleasure and honor to invite you to attend the 12th Annual Conference of the Asia Pacific Cervical Spine Society (APCSS-2018), to be held in New Delhi from November 15th to 17th, 2018. Asia Pacific Cervical Spine Society (APCSS) founded in 2007, is now an internationally acclaimed society of health professionals dedicated to the cause of cervical spine surgery in Asia Pacific region.

The theme of the APCSS 2018 will focus on:
1) Management of Craniovertebral junction anomalies.
2) Complications of Cervical Spine Surgery.

The meeting will be preceded by a Pre-conference live operative workshop being conducted in the academic environment of the department of Neurosurgery at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi on November 13th & 14th, 2018.

This meeting will bring together the luminaries in the field of Cervical Spine surgery from across the globe to share their rich experience and expertise. This comprehensive international academic endeavor will encompass plenary lectures by distinguished guest speakers, panel discussion, debates, interactive case discussions and video presentations among other scientific activities. We are honored to conduct this meeting under the aegis of Asia Pacific Cervical Spine Society, AO Spine, Neurological Society of India, Neuro- Spinal Surgeon Society of India, Association of Spine Surgeons of India and Spine Society Delhi Chapter. The conference will provide an excellent milieu for academic discussions along with national and international experts in the field cervical spine surgery.
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12th APCSS President
Prof Shashank S Kale
Organising President
Chairman of the 12th Asia Pacific Cervical Spine Society Meeting

Ali Abou-Madawi

President of 11th Asia Pacific Cervical Spine Society
Chairman of 11th Asia Pacific Cervical Spine Society Meeting

Dear Colleague:

To my dearest colleagues and friends, and on behalf of The Asian Pacific Cervical Spine Society It's my joy and honor to invite you to the (APCSS 2017) 11th APCSS annual scientific meeting. This year the meeting will be held on November 8-10th, 2017 in CAIRO the most wonderful city with lots of cultural and touristic attractions. There will be top surgeons and expertise from different medical schools, countries, and continents. The scientific program is designed to update our knowledge in many interesting and controversial spinal issues.

Since 2007 and through the last decade the APCSS meeting has become a prestigious meeting attended by all members throughout the Asia-Pacific Nations. Your interest and support were the main pillar for the success of this meeting not only at the academic and career levels but also at the social side.

This year will be a memorial event for all spine surgeons (Neuro/Ortho) and everybody is encouraged to share. CAIRO is waiting for you.

11th APCSS President
Ali Abou-Madawi
President of the APCSS 2017
Chairman of the 11th Asia Pacific Cervical Spine Society Meeting

Hyun Chul Shin, M.D., Ph. D.

President of 10th Asia Pacific Cervical Spine Society
Chairman of 10th Asia Pacific Cervical Spine Society Meeting

To my dearest colleagues and friends,

It is my joy and honor to invite you to the 10th annual meeting of the Asia-Pacific Cervical Spine Society 2016 which will be held on NOV.10-12, 2016 in Korea. There will be top surgeons attending from different Countries. It will be a very dynamic meeting with discussions about current concepts of cervical spine surgery. This being the 10th annual meeting I realize that 10 years has past, a whole decade since we started out on this journey to improving and paving out the future. Seeing how much we have accomplished, we tend to look back to beginning. This meeting was established by Doctor Do Heum Yoon on November 2007 and for a decade, Asia and Pacific Cervical Spine Society Meeting has grown as a meeting society that has nearly 300-400 attendees. Your interest and support for each annual meeting has played a great role, not only for academic interchanges on the cervical diseases among the members of each Countries, but also forming friendships among one another.

We are proud that the APCSS meeting has become a prestigious meeting in both name and reality, which can be attended by all members throughout the Asia-Pacific Nations.

We may have started out as friends and colleagues, but I feel that we grew to being like a family. I am excited, and can't wait to welcome everyone back to Seoul, Korea after a fruitful 10 years.

I believe your participation will be great contribution to APCSS 2016 and the satisfaction of all the participants.

10th APCSS President
Hyun Chul Shin, M.D., Ph. D.
President of the APCSS 2016
Chairman of the 10th Asia Pacific Cervical Spine Society Meeting

Walid Attia, MD, PhD

President of 9th Asia Pacific Cervical Spine Society
Chairman of 9th Asia Pacific Cervical Spine Society Meeting

My Dear Colleagues:

Welcome to the Ninth APCSS and the First ASA conjoint meeting. Spine practice is one of the most fast- evolving, industry- related, technology- adapting practice in nowadays medical field.

Dubai - our host city for this year’s meeting - has worked well as a melting pot for all that is new, high tech., top notch in architecture, business, communication and entertainment to bring up this state-of-the-art experience of a modern city. Todays’ spine practice is the same as Dubai in some way. We, as spine practitioners , have to bring about all that is new in the field, melt these new ideas together to bring out such sophisticated and unique spine practice to help our patients.

Inspired by Dubai and spine practice, I thought of - Innovations and spine care, to infinity and beyond- to be the theme for this year’s meeting. With your help this theme will be the spirit of a great meeting. So, I am fervently inviting high caliber experts such as yourself to join us in this unique gathering for spine lovers; surgeons, neurophysiologists, spine rehabilitators, interventionists, pain managers, and neuro navigation experts to create a great experience in this all-spine meeting.

We will all be honored to see you in Dubai between November 20-21, 2015. We are eager to hear your talks and involve ourselves in fruitful discussions with you, to enrich our knowledge and learn something new in our beloved spine career.

Please, send us the abstracts of your talks as soon as you can. Kindly, also register yourself on our website and choose the package of your preference. You may also download our mobile app to your smart phone and keep yourself in-the-loop during this wonderful event. Afterwards, please send me your travel arrangements so we can make arraignments to keep your stay the most pleasant and comfortable.

We are working hard to make this meeting a top-notch scientific, social and entertaining experience that will strengthen our friendship with you forever, See you soon in Dubai.

9th APCSS President
Walid Attia, MD, PhD
President, the APCSS 2015
Chairman of 9th Asia Pacific Cervical Spine Society Meeting

Professor Mehmet Zileli

President of 8th Asia Pacific Cervical Spine Society
Chairman of 8th Asia Pacific Cervical Spine Society Meeting

It will be an honor for us to welcome you in Istanbul for the “8th Asia Pacific Cervical Spine Meeting”. The main goal of the APCSS Meeting will be to pave the way for a scientific environment where recent developments in cervical spine are reviewed, the results of research are discussed and ideas are exchanged. We will also be discussing the regional and global aspects of social, political and economic issues related to spine surgery. We look forward to an exciting meeting where many new discoveries will be presented and challenging discussions on current controversies will take place.

The meeting venue, Barbaros Point Hotel, is located at the heart of the city where business, cultural, gastronomic and commercial districts present. We will do our best to ensure that the social program will be as impressive as the scientific program. Because of its location, infrastructure and the facilities it provides, we believe that the Barbaros Point Hotel will be the right choice of venue for social activities as well.

Istanbul is the only city in the world built on two continents. It stands on the shores of the uniquely appealing Bosphorus strait (Istanbul Bogazi) where the waters of the Black Sea intersect with those of the Sea of Marmara and the Golden Horn estuary.

Istanbul is a city meant to be a capital and has indeed been the capital of three great empires Roman, Byzantine and Ottoman which dominated the world. The city is also a meeting place of people from many different religions and cultures who come together and live in peace. Today, it houses the precious remains of these civilizations and stands with all her glamour and mysticism as a harmonious link between east and west, antique and modern. It is one of the most outstanding, enchanting and lively cities of the world. Furthermore, it has an atmosphere of its own with its life-style, people and numerous attractions.

We are sure that Istanbul will be an excellent venue for the APCSS 2014 and will endow us with many precious and long-lasting memories to cherish.

We look forward to seeing you in Istanbul in 2014

8th APCSS President
Professor Mehmet Zileli
President, the APCSS 2014
Chairman of 8th Asia Pacific Cervical Spine Society Meeting

Kazutoshi Hida, M.D, Ph.D.

President of 7th Asia Pacific Cervical Spine Society
Chairman of 7th Asia Pacific Cervical Spine Society Meeting

Dear Friends and Colleagues,

It’s our great honor and pleasure to invite you to participate the 7th annual meeting of Asia-Pacific Cervical Spine Society 2013, August 22-23 in Sapporo. This meeting was established by Dr. D. H. Yoon in 2007, and was greatly developed with participants from many Asian countries. The meeting venues in the past were Seoul, Beijing, Sydney, Bali and Chiang Mai. Recently our international executive committee covers 16 countries of Asian countries. This is our first opportunity to welcome APCSS members and participants to Japan.

This meeting is essentially composed of neurosurgeons and orthopedic surgeons for the purpose of mutual understanding and exchanging concepts and ideas of spinal surgery of each society. We believe you will be able to learn lessons of spinal surgery from both societies. With the aging of our society, spinal surgery becomes more and more important to maintain the quality of life among the elderly people. Therefore, we need more discussion about indications, techniques, and surgical outcome about spinal surgery.

Minimally invasive spinal surgery is global trend, and variety of surgical tools and techniques have been introduced. We are sure that we will know the standard spinal surgery with future trend at the end of the meeting.

In addition to the academic aspects, this meeting has another important purpose to make friendship among all Asian countries. It is good to know many new friends and deepen the relationship of old friends through the meeting. Sapporo in this particular time is wonderful. It is sunny and breezy. You may enjoy several kinds of outdoor activities and sightseeing.

We will prepare for the fruitful scientific programs for all the participants. We hope we will receive many interesting abstracts from you. We are looking forward to seeing you in Sapporo in August 2013.

7th APCSS President
Kazutoshi Hida, M.D., Ph.D.
President, the APCSS 2013
Chairman of 7th Asia Pacific Cervical Spine Society Meeting

Korku Chiengthong, MD

President of 6th Asia Pacific Cervical Spine Society
Chairman of 6th Asia Pacific Cervical Spine Society Meeting

Dear Colleagues and Friends,

It is my great pleasure to announce that the 7th annual meeting of Asia-Pacific Cervical Spine Society 2013 will be held on August 22-24, 2013 in Sapporo. In 2012, we have organized the 6th Congress of APCSS in Chiang Mai, Thailand which was overwhelming supported from our friend’s attendants around the world.

The organizing committee of this coming congress has been working hard for years to organize and establish the most update scientific program and attractive social events for all participants. The world-renowned cervical spine surgeons in the Asia Pacific countries and elsewhere around the world are invited to be the faculty speakers.

I certainly believe that you will join varieties of Cervical Spine update information and enjoy the social activities.

It is our privilege to invite you all, please come to Sapporo, Japan, to join us and submit your works to be presented in this meeting.

Looking forward to welcoming you all.

With best regards

6th APCSS President
Korku Chiengthong, MD, FRCOST
President, the APCSS 2012
Chairman of 5th Asia Pacific Cervical Spine Society Meeting

Alfred Sutrisno, MD

President of 5th Asia Pacific Cervical Spine Society
Chairman of 5th Asia Pacific Cervical Spine Society Meeting

Dear colleagues and friends,

I am very exciting to continue the level of scientific quality of what we have been experiencing from the previous APCSS Meetings. Therefore, I would like to thank to the scientific committee who started to prepare the scientific program customized to the International needs and of course to our distinguish faculty from around the world.

On behalf of the Organizing Committee, I also would like to encourage all of you to send your recent studies on Spine, Pain and Functional Surgery in Spine so we can make this important meeting to be of fruitful for all of us.

Despite of the high quality of scientific program, the organizing committee has prepared fascinating social activities combined with the world famous magical Balinese culture which I am sure you are already aware of the beautiful Bali Island.

It is again a great honor for me to encourage you to participate, join and share your wisdom and surgical skill in this important event for all of Spine Surgeons.

I am looking forward to meeting you very soon in the Island of Paradise, Bali.

With warmest regards,

5th APCSS President
Alfred Sutrisno, MD
President of 5th Asia Pacific Cervical Spine Society
Chairman of 5th Asia Pacific Cervical Spine Society Meeting

Dr Ian Farey and Dr William Sears, Co Chairs

President of 4th Asia Pacific Cervical Spine Society
Chairman of 4th Asia Pacific Cervical Spine Society Meeting

Dear Colleagues,

On behalf of the organising committee, we invite you to attend the 4th Asia Pacific Cervical Spine Society meeting, which will be held in Sydney 4 - 6 November 2010.

Founded by Professor Do Heum Yoon, the Asia Pacific Cervical Spine Society (APCSS) held its first meeting in Seoul, Korea during November 2007 and was attended by over 400 delegates from 12 Asia-Pacific countries.

The Society provides a forum for the open exchange of ideas and scientific knowledge. It is helping to build and strengthen friendships amongst those who work in the field of cervical spinal surgery, throughout the Asia Pacific region.

We look forward to an outstanding scientific program, which will feature presentations from world experts in their fields. Special themes of the meeting will include myelopathy, deformity, rheumatoid disease and applied biomechanics.

In addition to the keynote lectures, we look forward to delegates submitting abstracts for the free paper sessions.

The meeting will include interactive sessions and case studies, highlighting controversial areas.

November is springtime in Sydney - one of the world’s most beautiful harbourside cities and an enjoyable social program is planned, including a harbour cruise, wildlife visits and two golf sessions. We look forward to welcoming old friends and new to Sydney in November 2010.

Dr Ian Farey and Dr William Sears, Co Chairs

Tian Wei

President of 3th Asia Pacific Cervical Spine Society
Chairman of 3th Asia Pacific Cervical Spine Society Meeting

Dear colleagues

Welcome to the 3rd Asia Pacific Cervical Spine Society (APCSS) in Beijing, China! On the behalf of Organization Committee, I sincerely thank you for your participation.

The 3rd APCSS meeting is organized with the idea of setting up a platform for the surgeons from Asia and Pacific countries to exchange their clinical and medical experiences in the cervical spine filed.

The organization committee has not only invited a number of famous experts from Asia and Pacific region, but also lots of experienced doctors from Europe and American countries to give us lectures at the meeting. So it can be sure that the meeting will be very splendid.

Having been through the other two successful meetings in Soul, I hope the 3rd APCSS meeting in Beijing can be another success.

Thank you again for your coming. I hope you will have a wonderful time in Beijing!

Tian Wei
President, APCSS 2009
President, Beijing Jishuitan Hospital
Professor, Health Science Center, Peking University

Do Heum Yoon, M.D, Ph.D.

President of 2th Asia Pacific Cervical Spine Society
Chairman of 2th Asia Pacific Cervical Spine Society Meeting

Dear Colleagues

Organization committee of 2nd Asia Pacific Cervical Spine Society(AP CSS) invites you to the city of Seoul, Korea for the 2nd meeting of the AP CSS, November 6-7 , 2008.

This 2nd meeting is also organized with the idea to strengthen the relationship between the spine surgeons from Asia and Pacific countries and to exchange experiences and knowledge with all of those interested in the cervical spine field.

As we know, the first meeting of AP CSS was successfully held in Seoul with more than 400 participants and speakers from 12 Asian and Pacific countries.

It was the first regional cervical spine meeting in Asia and a valuable experience for all members giving one the opportunity to meet and exchange ideas.

We are proud to announce that the scientific program of the 2nd AP CSS will be an informative and attractive for all the members of CSS.

It will be also a chance to interact with old colleagues and make new friends during one of the social events in a city of Seoul.

All the spine surgeons not only in Asia and Pacific area are most welcome to participate the meeting and visit the historical city of Seoul for academic communication and friendship.

We would like to invite everybody to submit abstracts for free paper sessions.

The 2nd AP CSS web site will be coming soon for more detailed information and registration.

We are looking forward to your participation and welcoming you to Seoul.

Do Heum Yoon, M.D, Ph.D.
Congress President

Do Heum Yoon, M.D, Ph.D.

President of 1th Asia Pacific Cervical Spine Society
Chairman of 1th Asia Pacific Cervical Spine Society Meeting

Dear Colleagues

On behalf of the organizing committee, I would like to welcome you to 1st Asian Pacific Cervical Spine Research Society (AP CSRS) meeting, November 1-2, 2007 to be held in Seoul,Korea.

The Asian-Pacific region has become a key growth area for the spine surgery especially cervical diseases. Spine surgeons in the Pacific Rim have long required a regional meeting that would allow them to benefit from the exchange of idea sand experiences.

Therefore, this meeting is organized with the idea to strengthen the relationship between the spine surgeons from Asian and Pacific countries and to exchange experiences and knowledge with all of those interested in the cervical spine field.

Scientific knowledge of the cervical spine emphasizing surgical technique will be presented and we will also offer opportunities for open exchange of scientific experiences.

Some great spine surgeons from Asian-Pacific countries and USA will attend this meeting which make the scientific program more informative and attractive.

We would like to invite everybody to submit abstracts for free paper sessions This meeting will be a high-energy, interactive meeting focus on controversial and new topics in the field of cervical spine.

With this 1st meeting, we will extend this meeting annually in a different Asian-Pacific countries for maintaining a close friendship between the spine surgeons from different counties.

We look forward to seeing you and sharing your experiences at the meeting AP CSRS 2007 in Seoul.

Do Heum Yoon, M.D, PhD
Program Chairman

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