[EANF-02] Hot Topics in Neurology: EANF 2019 (1)

[EANF-02-3] Explore the Pathophysiology of Essential Tremor

Ming-Kai Pan^1,2 (1.National Taiwan University Hospital, 2.National Taiwan University)

The idea of East Asian Neurology Forum (EANF) was originally discussed among the leaders of Japanese Society of neurology (JSN) and Korean Neurological Association (KNA) in the spring of 2007 taking the opportunity of the 48th annual meeting of JSN in Nagoya. The first Korean-Japanese joint symposium was held in Seoul as a program of 26^th Annual meeting of KNA in October, 2007. In 2009, the membership was expanded to Taiwan, China and Hong Kong and the name of the program was named East Asian Neurology Forum (EANF). This year, EANF cerebrates its 14^th symposium. The purpose of EANF is to foster friendship and promote collaboration among East Asian countries/regions. We encourage the participants of the 60^th annual meeting of JSN to take part in the commemorative 10^th EANF symposium.

Dr. Pan is currently a physician principal investigator in the Department of Medical Research, National Taiwan University Hospital (NTUH) and also an assistant profession of Neurology in College of Medicine, NTU. Dr. Pan graduated from the medical school of NTU, received his neurology resident training in NTUH and clinical electrophysiological fellowship in both NTU and NIH (Mentor: Mark Hallett). He also received PhD training of optogenetics and in-vivo electrophysiology in NTU (Mentor: Chung-Chin Kuo). His research focuses on motor control mechanism of basal ganglia and cerebellum, and the pathophysiology of related movement disorders, such as Parkinson’s disease and essential tremor. He received several national and international awards, such as Health Tech Innovator Award of Asian Pacific Economy Cooperation (APEC) (2018); LEAP Program Award of International Parkinson and Movement Disorder Society (MDS) (2018) and Junior Faculty Award of MDS-AOS SYNERGIES (2018). He is currently a committee member of MDS Tremor Research Group, one of the two online authors of BMJ best Practice in Essential tremor section since 2016: http://bestpractice.bmj.com/topics/en-gb/1089, and one of the three organizers of International Tremor Congress in New York, USA (2018; 2020).