Instructor

Name KIMURA, Wataru

Professor & Chairman
Affiliation Yamagata University School of Medicine
Specialization Gastroenterological and General Surgery
Class Outline This course covers topics in the area of medicine and nursing that are currently assuming increasing importance in Japan, as well as of life sciences actively investigated in Yamagata University. The Japanese society is now rapidly aging. This gives rise to socio-medical problems relatively unique to Japan, including the potential threat of life style-related diseases such as cancer. In this course, such problems are addressed both from the perspective of medicine and nursing. Emphasis is placed on the molecular biology, pathology, immunology and surgical treatment for cancer. Yamagata University is well renowned for its high-level emergency medicine and life science research and Surgery. Introductory lectures on cutting-edge topics in the field of life sciences are therefore included in this course.
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Theme 1.Surgical Strategies for the Tumors of the Pancreas
2.Recent Advances in Diagnosis and Treatment of Biliary Neoplasm

Theme Up-to-Date Treatment of Human Diseases
Name Affiliation Specialization
KUBOTA, Isao

M.D. & Ph.D. (Doctor of Medical Science)
Professor
Department of Cardiology, Pulmonology, and Nephrology                   Cardiology                                    
WATANABE, Tetsu
NOZAKI, Naoki
     
Theme Pathology of Dendritic Cells
Name Affiliation Specialization
MAEDA, Kunihiko

M.D. & Ph.D. (Doctor of Medical Science)
Associate Professor
Division of Clinical Pathology, Yamagata University Hospital Pathology (Hematopathology), Immunology
     
Theme Tumor Pathology
Name Affiliation Specialization
YAMAKAWA, Mitsunori

M.D.
Professor
Faculty of Medicine, Department of Pathology Pathology
     
Theme Molecular Oncology
Name Affiliation Specialization
KITANAKA, Chifumi

M.D. & Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Molecular Cancer Science
Yamagata University School of Medicine
Molecular Oncology
     
Theme Cancer and the Immune System
Name Affiliation Specialization
ASAO, Hironobu

M.D.&Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Immunology, Yamagata University Faculty of Medicine. Immunology
     
Theme Epidemic of chronic kidney disease
Name Affiliation Specialization
KONTA, Tsuneo

M.D. & Ph.D. (Internal Medicine)
Assistant Professor
Department of Cardiology, Pulmonology, and Nephrology Nephrology
     
Theme Intoxication
Name Affiliation Specialization
ISEKI, Ken
     
Theme Basic Life Support (BLS)
Name Affiliation Specialization
KAWAMAE, Kaneyuki
     
Theme Osteolysis around total hip implants. Yamagata study.
Name Affiliation Specialization
TAKAGI, Michiaki

Ph.D. (Medical Science)
Associate Professor
Department of Orthopaedic Surgery Yamagata University School of Medicine Orthopaedic Surgery and Research
     
Theme Life Style-Related Diseases in Urology
Name Affiliation Specialization
TOMITA, Yoshihiko

M.D. & Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Urology Urology
Urological Oncology
     
Theme Your Heart as a Pump
Name Affiliation Specialization
NAKAMURA, Takao

Ph.D.
Professor
Graduate School of Medical Science Bio-Medical Information Engineering
     
Theme Medicine in an Aged Society with Fewer Children
Name Affiliation Specialization
SATO, Yukiko

Ph.D.,M.S.N.,R.N.
Professor of Child Health Nursing
Yamagata University, Faculty of Medicine, School of Nursing
Her major research projects have focused primarily on nursing intervention for child nervous disease and care system on prevention of child abuse. She has lectured on Child health nursing and Clinical skills for child health nursing.
HOSOYA, Takiko

Ph.D.,M.Ph
Professor of Community Nursing
Yamagata University, Faculty of Medicine, School of Nursing
She is currently involved with an evaluation program of long-term care-management for the elderly people of the local city in North-Western Japan. Her major research projects have focused primarily on home care-management and health promotion of the demented elderly. She has lectured on epidemiological aspects of the demented elderly, welfare and health of the older people,and family nursing.
KATANO, Yumi
YOKOYAMA, Hiroyuki
     
Theme Nursing, Medicine, and Welfare
Name Affiliation Specialization
KANOYA, Yuka

Doctor of Nursing
Professor
School of Nursing,Yamagata University Faculty of Medicine Community Health Nursing
ENDOH, Yumiko

Master of Arts
Associate professor
School of Nursing, Yamagata University Faculty of Medicine Maternity nursing
FURUSE, Midori

Doctor of Health Science
Professor
School of Nursing, Faculty of Medicine, Yamagata University Home Care Nursing
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