The founding congress of the first Asian Association of Clinical Anatomists(AsACA) and the first Asian Clinical Anatomy Conference were held in Busan(Korea) on November 2 to 4, 2012. More than 120 scholars of anatomy and clinic who came from China, Korea and Japan attended the meeting. Prof. Liu Shuwei and PhD Ge Haitao of Shandong University School of Medicine, Human Anatomy and Tissue Embryology Research Institute attended and reported to the conference. In the first AsACA, Professor Zhao Baiwan who comes from the Chonbuk National University of Korea was selected as the chairman of AsACA, while the Pro. Liu Shuwei of Shandong University School of Medicine was the vice chairman.

This congress consisted of three parts: skeletal and muscle system, liver and gall system and head and neck region. There were 20 scholars present to report the relevant study of clinical anatomy. Prof. Tatsuo Sato, a famous anatomist of Tokyo Ariake University of Medical and Health Sciences, who is also the honorary president of AsACA did an hour special lecture about “Lymphatic drainage and autonomic innervation of the head of pancreas”. Prof. Liu Shuwei reported “The sectional anatomy of the hepatic vein” which introduced the course, variants and branches of hepatic vein in detail and proposed a new method to divide the hepatic segments. The new method is a precise theory for liver resection and transplantation in clinic. PhD Ge Haitao did the report that “Cerebral white matter research of attention”, which revealed the white matter that participate in attention and explained the neuroanatomic mechanism of each subsystem of attention.

AsACA is launched by anatomic and clinical scholars of Japan, Korea and China. It is an international academic organization approved by the South Korean government. It aims at adhering to the contemporary idea of translational medicine, promoting the anatomical exchange of Asian scholars and clinicians, pushing the application of anatomy research in daily medical practice especially in the surgery and medical imaging and further promoting the development of Asian anatomy and clinical medicine. The Asian Clinical Anatomy Congress will be held every two years. The second one will be held on 2014 in Tokyo of Japan.