Introduction of ASCI VFP

ASCI is providing a Visiting Fellowship Program to provide a platform for ASCI members to have the opportunity to participate in the training programs by established cardiac imaging centers in CT, MR, echo and nuclear cardiology for doctors in Asian countries.

Although many VFPs actually have / are being proceeded, we wish to facilitate the exchange programs inside and between the countries. This is especially demanded when multi-modality of cardiac imaging approach is becoming important. With this platform, we will not only "match" the trainees and centers, but also monitor and encourage more centers to join ASCI-VFP as a credit, which will be awarded during ASCI annual meetings.

The ASCI-VFP is just a starting point, we wish it can network the resources of training of cardiac imaging progressively to enhance the overall performance of cardiac imaging in Asia.

If you wish to have more information on the program, please contact our office at office@asci-heart.org.

• Pre-requisite for a successful applicant : Must be a paid member of ASCI
• Must be board certificated radiologists or cardiologists
• The duration and content of the program vary according to the center.
• There may be a fee to take part in the VFP which should be paid directly to the center, and these fees vary according to the center.

For more information on the participating centers, please go to "Participating Centers".

Participating Centers

	Institute	Department	Program Director	Modality
Australia	Monash Health	Cardiology (MonashHeart)	Sujith Seneviratne	CT, echo
Australia	The Prince Charles Hospital, Brisbane	Richard Slaughter Centre of Excellence in Cardiovascular MRI	Director of Radiology	CT, MR, echo
China	Beijing Anzhen Hospital, Capital Medical University	Radiology	Zhanming Fan	CT, MR, echo, NM
China	Cardiovascular institute and Fuwai hospital	Radiology	Shihua Zhao	CMR
China	State Key Laboratory of Cardiovascular Disease, Fuwai Hospital, National Center for Cardiovascular Diseases, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College	Radiology	Minjie Lu	MR
China	Fu Wai Cardiovascular Institute and Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College	Radiologic Imaging	Bin Lu	CT, MR, echo, NM
China	Anzhen hospital, Beijing	Cardiovascular interventional radiology	Xiaoyong Huang	CT, MR
Hong Kong	St. Teresa's Hospital	Scanning	SHU Shang Jen, Jack	Cardiac CT, CMR
India	Apollo Hospitals, Chennai	Radiology	Rochita V Ramanan	CT, MR
India	Inlaks And Budhrani Hospital	Nuclear Medicine	Shefali M Gokhale	NM
Indonesia	National Cardiovascular Centre, Harapan Kita Hospital, Indonesia University	Nuclear Cardiology & Cardiovascular Imaging	Manoefris Kasim	CT, MR, NM
Indonesia	National Cardiovascular Center "Harapan Kita"	Echocardiography, Cardiology and Vascular Medicine	Amiliana M Soesanto	echo
Japan	Mie University Hospital	Radiology	Hajime Sakuma	CT, MR, NM
Japan	Ehime University School of Medicine.	Radiology	Teruhito Kido	CT
Korea	Seoul St. Mary's Hospital, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea	Radiology	Jung Im Jung	Cardiac CT, Cardiac MR
Korea	Asan Medical Center	Radiology	Joon-Won Kang	CT, MR
Korea	Severance Hospital	Radiology	Byoung Wook Choi	CT, MR
Korea	Kyungpook National University Hospital	Radiology	Jongmin Lee	CT, MR, US, Angio
Korea	Seoul National University Hospital	Radiology	Whal Lee	CT, MR
Malaysia	University Malaya Medical Centre	Biomedical Imaging & Cardiology	Yang Faridah Abdul Aziz	CT, MR
Taiwan	Taichung Veterans General Hospital	Medical Imaging	Si-Wa Chan	CT and MRI
Taiwan	Kaohsiung Veterans General Hospital	Radiology	Ming-Ting Wu	CT, MR
Taiwan	Chang Gung Memorial Hospital at Linkou, Chang Gung University	Medical Imaging and Intervention	Yung-Liang Wan	CT, MR, angiographic machines
Taiwan	Mackay Memorial Hospital	Radiology	Chun-Ho Yun	CT, MR
Taiwan	National Taiwan University Hospital	Medical Imaging	Shyh-Jye Chen	CT, MR
Thailand	Prince of Songkla University	Radiology	Supika Kritsanepaiboon	CT, MR, echo, NM
Thailand	Ramathibodi Hospital, Mahidol University	Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine	Tarinee Tangcharoen	MR

Report Form

Fellows who have completed their visiting fellowship program are required to report the results within two weeks after the program. Kindly be advised to complete the report form and send it to ASCI AO office by office@asci-heart.org.

Cases Realized

We acknowledge the Participating Centers for Visiting Fellowship Program (VFP).

2017

1. - New Tokyo Hospital (Program Director: Dr. Takeshi Nojo)

2016

1. - National Taiwan University Hospital (Program Director: Dr. Yeun-Chung Chang)