●Background
March 1981 | Graduated from the School of Medicine, the Faculty of Medicine Tottori University |
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1981–1993 | Joined the department of surgery and then the Department of International Medical Cooperation in 1987 at International Medical Center of Japan (IMCJ) |
1993–1999 | Joined the Bureau of International Health Cooperation, IMCJ |
1999–2009 | Served as a dispatch and cooperation senior specialist at the Bureau of International Health Cooperation, IMCJ |
2009–2014 | Served as a section chief at the Bureau of International Health Cooperation, National Center for Global Health and Medicine (NCGM) |
2014-March 2021 | Served as the manager of the Human Resource Development Department, the Bureau of International Health Cooperation, NCGM |
July 2021‐present | Serves as Executive Director at Medical Excellence JAPAN |
●Dispatched overseas as a long-term expert (JICA)
1990–1992 | Bolivia on the Santa Cruz General Hospital project as a technical advisor (in surgery) |
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1997-1999 | Bolivia on the health and medical care delivery system project in Santa Cruz as a chief advisor |
2002–2005 | Lao People’s Democratic Republic on the healthcare cooperation project as a technical advisor for the Ministry of Health |
●Research and professional experience
1988 | Completed a tropical medicine training course at The Institute of medical Science, The University of Tokyo |
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1994-1995 | Took part in the Takemi Program in International Health at the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) as a fellow |
1997-2013 | Became an assistant and then an assistant professor (since 2007) in tropical medicine and parasitology at Keio University School of Medicine |
2017–present | Serves as a visiting professor at Nagasaki University School of Tropical Medicine and Global Health |
2021–present | Serves as a visiting researcher at NCGM |
●Areas of specialty
International healthcare (health system, community health and tropical medicine) and surgery
●Affiliated academic societies
(1985-around 2005 Japan Surgical Society, a certified surgeon)
(1990-around 2005 The Japanese Society of Gastroenterological Surgery, a certified digestive surgeon)
1993–present | The Japan Society of Transfusion Medicine and Cell Therapy, a councilor and certified transfusion physician |
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2008–2022 | Japan Association for International Health, an executive director/the bureau chief, a supervisor (since 2018) |
2016- | International Society of Clinical Medicine, a member of the board of directors |
●Medical Excellence Japan (MEJ)