1st Pan Asia Conference on Food & Drug Safety Assessment
Date: April 14th - 16th, 2011
Preliminary Program
Welcome Banquet – 18:00, Thursday April 14th 2011
Venue: TBC
Conference Day 1 - Friday April 15th 2011
Venue: Performance Hall, First Teaching Building, Kaohsiung Medical University, Taiwan
Time	Topic / Speaker(s)	Moderator	
8:30-9:00	Registration		
9:00-9:20	Opening Address
��	Dr. Hsin-Su Yu
President, Kaohsiung Medical University, Taiwan
��	Dr. Hung-Che Chiang (TBC)
Vice Minister, Department of Health, Executive Yuan, Taiwan
��	Dr. Ing-Kan Ho
Academician, Academia Sinica 
Vice President, National Health Research Institutes, Taiwan
Distinguished Investigator, Division of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Research, National Health Research Institutes, Department of Health, Executive Yuan, Taiwan		
9:20-10:20	Keynote Speech
The Promise of Regulatory Science
Dr. William Slikker Jr.
Director, National Center for Toxicological Research, Food and Drug Administration, USA	Dr. Ying-Chin Ko
Vice President
Kaohsiung Medical University	
10:20-10:40	Break		

10:40-11:30

11:30-12:20	Policies and Regulations in Different Countries I
1.	(Topic TBC)
��	Dr. Jaw-Jou Kang (TBC)
Director General, Food and Drug Administration, Department of Health, Executive Yuan,Taiwan
2.	(Topic TBC)
��	Dr. Yasuo Ohno
Deputy Director General, National Institute of Health Sciences, Japan	Dr. Jih-Heng Li 
Dean
College of Pharmacy, Kaohsiung Medical University, Taiwan	
12:20-14:00	Lunch		

14:00-14:50

14:50-15:40

15:40-16:30	Policies and Regulations in Different Countries II
1.	(Topic TBC)
„«	Dr. Seung-Hee Kim (TBC)
General Director, Korea Food and Drug Administration, Korea
2.	(Topic TBC)
„«	Dr. Bo Li
Deputy Director, National Institute of Food and Drug Control, China
3.	(Topic TBC)
„«	Dr. John Wong Eu Li (TBC)
Deputy Chief Executive, National University Health System
Dean, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine
National University of Singapore, Singapore	Dr. Jaw-Jou Kang (TBC)
Director General, Food and Drug Administration, Department of Health, Executive Yuan, Taiwan	
16:30-16:50	Break		
16:50-17:30

17:30-18:10

	Emerging Issues on Safety Assessment I
1.	Substance Abuse
Dr. Cheng-Fang Yen(TBC), Professor, College of Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University, Taiwan
2.	Dose makes a difference - the challenges in the safety assessment of  "Health Food" 
��	Dr. Tsung-Yun Liu
Director, Institute of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, National Yang Ming University, Taiwan	Dr. Ing-Kan Ho
Academician, Academia Sinica 
Vice President, National Health Research Institutes, Taiwan
Distinguished Investigator, Division of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Research, National Health Research Institutes, Taiwan	
18:10	End of Conference Day 1		
* A ten-minute Q & A / discussion session has been included in the slot scheduled for each talk.  

Conference Day 2 - Saturday April 16th 2011
Venue: Performance Hall, First Teaching Building, Kaohsiung Medical University
Time	Topic / Speaker(s)	Moderator	
8:20-8:40	Registration		

8:40-9:20

9:20-10:00
	Emerging Issues on Safety Assessment II
1.	Nanotoxicology
„«	Dr. Louis W. Chang
Founding Director of Environmental Health and Occupational Medicine, National Health Research Institutes
Visiting Chair Professor of Molecular Medicine, National Cheng Kung University
Visiting Professor of Medical Research, Kaohsiung Medical University
Professor Emeritus of Pathology, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
��	Dr. Pinpin Lin
Investigator, Division of Environmental Health and Occupational Medicine, National Health Research Institutes, Taiwan
2.	Genetic Toxicology
��	 Dr. Te-Chang Lee
Adjunct Professor, Institute of Toxicology, School of Medicine, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
Distinguished Research Fellow, Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taiwan	Dr. Ahai C. Lua (TBC)
Vice President 
Tzu Chi University
Taiwan

Dr. Shoei-Yn Lin-Shiau
Emeritus Professor, Department of Pharmacology, National Taiwan University, Taiwan

	
10:00-10:20	Break		

10:20-11:00

11:00-11:40

11:40-12:20	Harmonization of Assessment
1.	(Topic TBC)
„«	Dr. Christopher J. Portier (TBC)
Director, National Center for Environmental Health and Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, USA
2.	(Topic TBC)
��	Dr. Takesumi Yoshimura
Director in General 
Fukuoka Institute of Health and Environmental Sciences, Japan

3.	(Topic TBC)
��	Dr. Henry Kam Yin Cheung
CEO, Vanny Group, Hong Kong	Dr. Chang-Hung Chou
Academician, Academia Sinica
Chair Professor/Dean, College of Life Sciences, China Medical University, Taiwan

Dr. Chen-Lung Steve Lin
Director, Center for International Affairs, Kaohsiung Medical University, Taiwan
	
12:20-13:30	Lunch		

13:30-14:10

14:10-14:50	Technical Session
1.	Regulatory and Translational Science – A Bioinformatics Perspective
��	Dr. Weida Tong
Director, Center for Toxicoinformatics, NCTR / FDA, USA
2.	(Topic TBC)
��	Dr. Margaret Miller
Associate Director for Regulatory Activities, NCTR/FDA, USA	
Dr. Jen-Kun Lin
Academician, Academia Sinica
Emeritus Professor, College of Medicine, National Taiwan University, Taiwan

Dr. Hwei-Fang Chen
Director, Divisionof Risk Management, 
FDA, Taiwan
	
14:50-15:00	Closing Remarks
Dr. Ying-Chin Ko
Vice President, Kaohsiung Medical University, Taiwan		
15:00	End of the Conference Day 2		
15:30-17:30	Round Table Discussion
All speakers & moderators
Dr. Pratap Singhasivanon, Mahidol University (TBC)	Dr. William Slikker Jr. 
Dr. Ying-Chin Ko	
18:00	Farewell Banquet		
��	A ten-minute Q & A / discussion session has been included in the slot scheduled for each talk.  
��	TBC: to be confirmed.