The management of the ofcial AOSNHNR website was handed over from the Korean society to the Singapore society in March 2008. This was after a long pro­cess of passing over the ownership of the website and transfer of data contained in the website and nding a company to manage the website.

In July 2008, the AOSNHNR community was left in shock at the sudden passing of Prof Pierre Lasjaunias of Paris, France. Prof Lasjaunias was a dear friend and a strong supporter of neuroradiology education and research in this region. It was indeed a very great loss for many of us.

The seventh AOCNR was held in Bali, Indonesia from July 9–11, 2009. Benny Huwae, the organizing chairman reported a total number of 620 participants: 180 overseas participants and 440 local participants [9]. The Takahashi Lecture was delivered by Prof Anne Osborn.

At the Council meeting, Benny Huwae was elected President, Nitaya Suwanwela as Vice-President, Sri Andreani Utomo as Secretary General and Cindy Sadikin as Treasurer. There were changes to the list of national representatives: Myanmar and Sri Lanka were welcomed as new members of the society. Their national representa­tives are Lim Tun and Nirmala Wijesinha, respectively. New national representa­tives of current member countries included Wong Yiu Chung of Hong Kong; Yukunori Korogi, Kazuhiro Katada and Shinichi Kan of Japan; Woo Suk Choi of Korea; David Perry of New Zealand and Suthisak Suthipongchai and Sirintara Pongpech of Thailand.

The tenth AOCNR was held in Fukuoka, Japan from November 5–7, 2015. The organizing chairman, Yukunori Korogi reported on the meeting’s success as a genuine regional meeting in Asia and Oceania. There were invited lecturers from the United States and France, namely, Mauricio Castillo, Christophe Cognard and Suresh K.Mukherji. Together with a faculty of 79 Asian lecturers comprising 43 from Japan and 36 from other countries in the Asian Oceanian region. There were 49 oral presentations and 121 poster presentations. A Takahashi Memorial Travel Fund was established for overseas attendants to support their travel fee to the congress. There was also a Fukuoka City Award for both domestic and overseas participants for excellence in the papers pre­sented. The congress attracted 467 participants of which 177 were from over­seas and 290 were local [10].

As the next AOCNR meeting would be very close to the current meeting, it was proposed that the President of the Society will be Lin Ai of China until August 2019 and Sandy Cheng-Yu Chen of Taiwan after that date. Members agreed to the proposal.

The 12th AOCNR was held in Taipei, Taiwan from March 19–21, 2018in conjunc­tion with the XXI Symposium Neuroradiologicum: the rst 3days were for the AOCNR and the following 3days were for the SNR, with some overlapping pro­grams. There were 457 registrants from 54 countries with 110 taking part in the AOCNR only. The faculty included 122 speakers and moderators [11].

The 13th AOCNR was scheduled to be held in Seoul, Korea in April 2021, a beautiful time in Korea with spring owers in bloom for all to wonder at. Unfortunately, 2020 saw the devastating impact of the Covid-19 virus across the world. Humankind was held captive and world travel was paralyzed by a miniscule virus. This presented the organizers with a great problem. By the end of 2020, the infections had not abated and it was clear that an in-person congress would not be able to proceed as originally planned. Cancelling the congress would have repercussions on the future planning of the congresses. Postponing the meeting was also tricky since at that point in time, there was still no indication if or when the infections would be under control. Crucially, no one knew for sure when air travel would return to normal.

It was the second time the Korean organizers had been hampered by severely impacted air travel. But like their previous compatriots, they met the challenges head on and the 2021 organizing committee with Sang Hoon Cha at the helm, worked tirelessly to introduce critical changes to adapt to those adverse conditions. They basically changed the format of the entire Congress to make it possible for participants to join the virtual AOCNR online. Their hard work and indomitable spirit paid off with a successful pioneering online Congress, and set an example for us to follow, especially if there are future pandemics or disasters. Despite being held online, the AOCNR 2021 conference maintained an exceptional level of quantity and quality. A total of 662 participants from 24 countries and regions registered. The scientic program featured 11 international and 31 Asian-Oceanian speakers. The agenda included one Takahashi lecture, four plenary lectures, 19 scientic sessions with 72 lectures, ve sponsored symposia with seven lectures, ve oral presentation sessions with 44 presentations, and 95 e-poster presentations.

and collaboration, particularly in diseases such as nasopharyngeal cancer and intra­cranial atherosclerosis to address region-specic challenges.

MakhanS.Khangure

In the 1980s, diagnostic neuroradiology was practised mainly by general radiolo­gists with an interest in neuroradiology. There were only a few trained dedicated neuroradiologists. Cerebral angiography, myelography, discography, and pneumo­encephalography were the predominant invasive procedures. Computed Tomography was the non-invasive tool, whilst Doppler ultrasound was the mainstay of evaluation of the cervical neck vessels.

of the need for an appropriate level of training and for its fellows to provide expert patient care. Prior to the formation of ANZSNR several INR courses were organised by the RANZCR.Many INR presentations were part of the RANZCR annual scien­tic meetings and many presentations were also made at the Interventional Radiology Society of Australasia (IRSA) meetings.

The third Committee was elected to occupy ofce from January 2000 and its tenure was to expire on 30 June 2003. This adjustment was required to align the nancial report with the national taxation requirements. All committees after 2003 were elected to ofce from July 1 to June 30.