It is a great pleasure to invite you to the 3^rd Congress of Asian Pacific Prostate Society, which will be held in conjunction with USANZ2013 in Melbourne, Australia on April 13~14, 2013. This year’s event is significant in that this meeting is held, outside Korea, in Australia by the great interests and supreme efforts of APPS 2013 Scientific Committee together with the Urological Society of Australia and New Zealand.

Building upon the success of previous meetings, the 3^rd Congress of Asian Pacific Prostate will bring world experts to address the most recent developments in the field, with a particular focus on exploring the Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia, Prostate Cancer guidelines of each country and setting the integration guidelines for the patients in Asian Pacific region. The program endeavors to integrate, where possible, aspects of epidemiology, biology and translational and clinical research in prostate diseases.

Program themes and more specific program information will be posted on this website in due course. Relevant topics will also be covered in poster presentations, and we encourage all students and post-doctoral fellows to submit posters on their work. Finally, my sincere thanks to our sponsors for their generous support to this year’s meeting.

On behalf of the conference organizers, I invite you to what promises to be an exciting and memorable meeting, both scientifically and socially in the cultural capital of Australia with its beautiful nature and climate.