੫ġġገ Highlights for 2019 Taiwan-Korea Young Stroke Investigator Joint Symposium

Highlights for 2019 Taiwan-Korea Young Stroke

Investigator Joint Symposium
Cheng-Yang Hsieh1, 2

1. Department of Neurology, Tainan Sin Lau Hospital, Tainan, Taiwan

2. School of Pharmacy, Institute of Clinical Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences,
College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan

ABSTRACT
On September 6, 2019, the Taiwan-Korea Young Stroke Investigator Joint Symposium was held at
the Seoul National University Hospital. A total of 8 young investigators from both countries shared the
latest results of their own stroke research. During the half-day symposium, speakers, senior moderators,
as well as the audience had an in-depth discussion for all the topics of stroke medicine presented. Future
collaborations between two countries have also been discussed. We believed that such a joint symposium
was a good start to understand each other and might improve the quality of stroke care and research in both
Taiwan and Korea. And of course, it will be held again in 2020 and annually thereafter.

Keywords: Taiwan, Korea, young, research, stroke.

Introduction publications, I found that Korea has achieved

The Republic of Korea, a country
geographically close to Taiwan, shares many
similarities with us in the development of modern
1
Western medicine. Personally, I attended the
2010 World Stroke Conference in Seoul, 2 2016
International Conference of Stroke Update (ICSU)
in Jeju, and 2018 ICSU in Seoul again.3 Besides,
I was also invited to give a talk about “Registry-
based stroke research in Taiwan” during the 2017
Seoul National University Hospital (SNUH)
4
International Stroke Symposium (SISS). Through
observation during those meetings, as well as
the growing quality and quantity of academic
a great progress in stroke medicine in the past
decade. They also have their own stroke journal,
the Journal of Stroke. It was founded in 2013 and
had an impact factor of 5.571 in 2018, probably
ranking as the second highest in this field.
Origin of This Symposium
In early 2019, I decided to organize a
new joint symposium as such for young stroke
investigators in Taiwan and Korea to communicate
and share their most updated results of stroke
research. This idea was supported by Professor
Jiann-Shing Jeng, the president of Taiwan Stroke

Corresponding author: Cheng-Yang Hsieh, MD, PhD, Department of Neurology, Tainan Sin Lau Hospital, 57, Sec. 1,
Dongmen Rd., East Dist., Tainan 70142, Taiwan, R.O.C.
E-mail: chengyanghsieh@gmail.com
DOI: 10.6318/FJS.202003_2(1).0009

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Society (TSS) and then approved for supports of
logistics (airfare and accommodation) during the
TSS board meetings in April, 2019. On the other
hand, Professor Byung-Woo Yoon, Department of
Neurology in SNUH, also strongly supported this
symposium. He suggested to hold this symposium
on September 6, the day before 2019 SISS. He also
assigned Dr. Tae Jung Kim to work with me in the
process of preparing this symposium.
Contents of This Symposium
Despite the impacts brought by Typhoon
5
Lingling, the first Taiwan-Korea Young Stroke
Investigator Joint Symposium was held as planned
on September 6, 2019, at the Center of Medical
Innovation, Seoul National University Hospital
(Figure). The schedule of presentation was listed in
Table. A total of 8 speakers, with 4 speakers from
Fig. Attendees of the 2019 Taiwan-Korea Young Stroke Investigator Joint Symposium.
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each country, presented various topics including
translational research, acute reperfusion therapy,
meta-analysis, registry research, and big data
research of stroke. I’ve discovered that young
investigators from Taiwan tended to conduct stroke
studies by their own small research groups with
special expertise, while those from Korea can
conduct a large-scale studies using nationwide
registry data, or even linked dataset of registry and
national health insurance claims data. The well-
built infrastructure and nice collaboration of stroke
registry in Korea is quite admirable.
During the half-day symposium, speakers,
senior moderators, as well as the audience had
an in-depth discussion for all the topics of stroke
medicine presented. Meanwhile, I made a simple
calculation for us “young” stroke investigators. The
average years (SD) after college graduation were
19.8 (2.9) vs. 15.5 (3.3) years, while the average
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Table. Schedule of the 2019 Taiwan-Korea Young Stroke Investigator Joint Symposium, held on September 6.

Time Title Speaker Moderator

12:50-13:00 Opening Professor Byung-Woo Yoon
A translational approach for the biophysiological
13:00-13:30 Sung-Chun Tang
signaling in acute stroke
Insights into reperfusion therapies for acute
13:30-14:00 ischemic stroke and asymptomatic carotid I-Hui Lee
stenosis Professor Jiann-
Shing Jeng
Enhance Atrial Fibrillaion Detection and
14:00-14:30 Meng Lee
Expand NOACs Use for Stroke Prevention
Home Time to Predict Modified Rankin Scale
14:30-15:00 Cheng-Yang Hsieh
after Stroke: a Validation Study
15:00-15:30 Coffee break All
15:30-16:00 Korean Stroke Registry Min-Kyoung Kang
Characteristics and management of stroke in
16:00-16:30 Han-Yeong Jeong
Korea based on Korean Stroke Registry Professor Byung-
16:30-17:00 Big data researches of stroke in Korea Tae Jung Kim Woo Yoon
Recanalization treatment after ELVO: delving
17:00-17:30 Beom Joon Kim
into the brain on the stream of blood
Professor Byung-Woo Yoon
17:30- Closing remark
Professor Jiann-Shing Jeng

years (SD) after neurology board certification were
10.3 (4.5) vs. 5.3 (4.5) years for those from Taiwan
vs. Korea, respectively. Maybe next time, the TSS
should send the “real young” stroke investigators
as speakers in such a symposium.
Conclusion
We b e l i e v e t h a t t h r o u g h s u c h a j o i n t
symposium, stroke society members of Taiwan and
Korea can improve understanding of each other.
This symposium was indeed a good start and might
improve the quality of stroke care and research
in both countries. Collaborative stroke studies
between the two countries can also be anticipated
in the near future. It can be anticipated that such
a joint symposium will be held again in 2020 and
annually thereafter.
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