Profile

Main Professional Career

1995(Apr)-1996(Mar)
Teaching Assistant, Faculty of Arts, Waseda University, Japan
1999(Oct)-2000(Nov)
Department of Community Health, Faculty of Health and Medical Science, The University of Auckland, Department of Community Health, New Zealand
2000(Dec)- 2001(Dec)
Research Associate, Department of Policy Science, National Institute of Health Service Management, Japan
2001(Mar-Sep)
Visiting Research Fellow, Australian Centre for Health Promotion, Department of Public Health & Community Medicine, University of Sydney, Australia
2001(Mar-Sep)
Visiting Research Fellow, Centre for Clinical Governance Research, Faculty of Medicine, University of New South Wales, Australia
2002(Jan)-2004(Mar)
Researcher Resident, Department of Health Care Policy, National Insinuate of Health, Japan
2004(Apr)-2007(Dec)
Associate Professor, Department of Social Welfare/Graduate School of Social Welfare, Niigata University of Health and Welfare, Japan
2008(Jan)-2016(Sep)
Associate Professor, School of Management and Information/Graduate School of Management, Information and Innovation, University of Shizuoka, Japan
2009(Apr)-
Lecturer, Department of Community and Global Health, Graduate School of Medicine, University of Tokyo, Japan
2011(Dec)-
Visiting Professor in Patient Safety Research, Department of Patient Safety and Management, Faculty of Medicine, Tokyo Medical University, Japan
2016(Oct)-
Professor Department of Project Design/Graduate School of Project Design

Background

  • MA in Sociology
  • Graduate Diploma in Public Health
  • Ph.D in Medicine

Specialty

  • Sociology(Medical Sociology)
  • Public Health
  • Policy Studies(Health & Social Policy)

Research Themes

  • Social Capital
  • Patient Safety in Health Care
  • Service Evaluation
  • Date Construction Strategy