Rules for Asia Prevent to be Hosted by the Japanese Association of Cardiac Rehabilitation
May 14, 2018
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The name of the International Session for JACR Scientific Meeting is “Asia Prevent”.
The session will be held as the 2nd Asia Prevent at the 2018 Annual Meeting.
The international session will be held in Japan for three years in 2018, 2019, and 2020.
Board members from outside Japan will be invited to the sessions based on thefollowing rules for the next three years.
Board members will have to present one or more topics each year as Author orCo-author (2018 to 2020).
Rules for inviting overseas board members
Overseas participants will be exempted from the annual meeting registration fee,accommodation and transport expenses will be paid up to a maximum of 100,000 yen
on submission of receipts.
Grant for presenters from overseas
Overseas presenters will be exempted from the annual meeting registration fee
Travel grant is given to topics selected by peer review of the abstracts (evaluated asexcellent).
30,000/person (tax not included) x Max 20 persons = 600,000 yen (tax excluded) (given
during presentation up to a maximum of 20 people)
Not given to presenters who are board members.
The selection is done through a review committee meeting (e-review meeting) to review
the topics by a peer review committee, conference chairperson, and panel chairperson
nominated by the international committee and panel members.
Selection criteria will be examined by the selection committee.
Rules for inviting overseas board members: Accommodation expenses 3 nights (50,000yen) + domestic travel expenses (50,000 Yen) will be paid by JACR. (Travel expenses
to Japan will be paid by the participants)
Grant for Japanese presenters
Award of excellence will be given to the best presentations based on the review by thechairpersons. The award includes a merit certificate + extra prize of 20,000 yen/person(tax excluded) x 10 persons = 200,000 yen (tax excluded)
Maximum 10 persons, but less than 10 people may be selected in the case of lower
scores.
The presentations will be given scores (5 levels) by each chairperson for items such aspresentation content and method, and English-speaking skills, the scores will be totaled,
and top ten selected for the award of excellence.
Asia Prevent board members
Minimum of one member from overseas participants and an equal or more number ofmembers from Japanese participants will be selected by the International Exchange
Association committee with approval from the board of directors.

Notes
1) The provisions will be reviewed after 3 years.
2) Information on the position of Asia Prevent
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Asia Prevent will be held as an International Session at the JACR Scientific Meeting.
The board members of Asia Prevent will work as part of the program cooperationcommittee and will not have the authority to manage the association.
For participants from Japan
The plan is to make the international sessions a gateway to success for internationalpresentation to members of the society.
The criteria for award of excellence will be evaluated only for presentations with scores
above 10, the selection criteria will be reviewed before each session to motivate more
beginners to give presentations (example: Excluding past winners from selection, setting
age limits, and restricting number of winners in different categories such as fundamental,
clinical, doctors, and co-medical)
Shortlisted countries for board members
Taiwan, China, Hong Kong, Singapore, Korea, Malaysia, Indonesia, Vietnam, Bangladesh,Philippines, Sri Lanka, Nepal, and Pakistan, a total of 13 countries2