[VC] Vas-Cog Symposium
Vas-Cog Asia/Japan Joint Symposium

[VC-3] Animal models of vascular cognitive impairment

^○Toru Yamashita, Koji Abe (Department of Neurology, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Japan)

Asian countries are the hot spot of the world for dementia patients increase mainly Alzheimer’s disease (AD). However, the issue of Asian AD is the vascular contribution to the classical AD pathology, which is even common in recent AD autopsy. Asian countries have an international consortium to study such vascular component on AD, not only the pure vascular dementia. Therefore this symposium focuses on the vascular contribution to AD phenotype and AD pathology with pivotal speakers from the Vas-Cog Asia representatives.

Education:
2001 M.D. Okayama University Medical School, Okayama, Japan
2006 Ph.D. Graduate School of Medicine, Okayama University, Okayama, Japan （Prof. Koji Abe）

Appointments:
2001-02 Resident, Okayama University Hospital
2002-03 Resident, National Hospital Organization Okayama Medical Center
2003-06 Research fellow, Department of Physiology, Keio University School of Medicine
2006-09 Physician, Department of Neurology, Okayama University Hospital
2009-12 Postdoctoral Scientist, Columbia University, New York, USA
2012-9 Assistant Professor, Department of Neurology, Okayama University Medical School
2013-9 Senior Assistant Prof., Department of Neurology, Okayama University Medical School
Awards:
2010 The Japan Stroke Society Young Scholar's Award
2010 Okayama Medical Association Award