HETEROGENEITY IN NEUROLOGIC EDUCATION AND CARE IN ASIAN AND OCEANIAN REGION The Asian subcontinent and Oceania (comprising

islands in the Pacific Ocean) are home to more than 60 % of the world’s population. The burden of neu-rologic disease and sickness is thereby high and med-ical care is in high demand. There are many developing countries with diverse cultural, economi-cal, political, religious, and historical backgrounds within the Asian and Oceanian region.1,2 Recently, enhanced medical care in these developing countries has resulted in greater longevity, which has increased the burden on those providing health care. The prev-alence of neurologic illness has also increased and has emerged as a priority health problem.3 Most fre-quently reported cases in neurology are epilepsy, cer-ebrovascular disease/stroke, headache, Parkinson disease, neuropathies, neuroinfections, multiple scle