The central concepts of the Center
Center for International Preventive Medicine, which operates the “Internationalization Project of Preventive Medicine”, aims to contribute to the development of research and education in preventive medicine and is working under five concepts.
Utilizing Japan’s knowledge across borders
Provide world-class Japanese preventive medicine to overseas residents.
Following up after the medical examinations
Support health care after examiners return to their home countries through close cooperation with local medical institutions.
Handing in Hand with the World
Promote international exchange in areas of clinical practice, education and research based on global cooperation.
Building a new medical "model"
Establish a model medical system for the international development of preventive medicine.
Contributing to economic development of our country
Contribute to the health care economy in Japan through the effective use of medical resources.
TOPICS
Introduction video of Center for International Preventive Medicine
Brochure of Center for International Preventive Medicine
Conclusion of cooperation agreements with overseas medical institutions
Our center has concluded cooperation agreements with overseas medical institutions, aiming not only to provide post-examination medical support but also to promote international exchanges in areas of clinical practice, education and research.
Peking Union Medical College Hospital（Beijing）
Concluded in August 2020Ruijin Hospital, Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine（Shanghai）
Concluded in December 2022Fudan University Zhongshan Hospital（Shanghai）
Concluded in March 2023China-Japan Friendship Hospital（Beijing）
Concluded in August 2020The First Affiliated Hospital of Xi'an Jiaotong University（Xi’an, Shanxi Province）
Concluded in May 2022Zhejiang Provincial People’s Hospital（Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province）
Concluded in May 2020The First Hospital of Lanzhou University（Lanzhou, Gansu Province）
Concluded in August 2022Affiliated Zhongshan Hospital of Dalian University（Dalian, Liaoning Province）
Concluded in August 2021China-Japan Union Hospital of Jilin University（Changchun, Jilin Province）
Concluded in October 2023The First Hospital of Hebei Medical University（Shijiazhuang, Hebei Province）
Concluded in January 2025
Online Academic Exchange Meeting with overseas medical institutions
As part of our international medical education activities, we regularly hold online academic exchange meetings with overseas medical institutions.
The following “Summary of Previous Events” lists only speakers in our hospital.
Summary of Previous Events
The 46th meeting
Thursday, February 1, 2024
- Theme
- Osteoporosis
- Speaker
- Sakae Tanaka, Professor, Department of Orthopedic Surgery and Spinal Surgery
- Participants
- China-Japan Friendship Hospital
The 45th meeting
Saturday, January 27, 2024
- Theme
- Diabetes
- Speaker
- Yoko Iizuka, Director, Center for International Preventive Medicine/ Department of Diabetes and Metabolic Diseases
- Participants
- The First Hospital of Lanzhou University and its affiliated hospitals
The 44th meeting
Thursday, January 25, 2024
- Theme
- Cardiovascular Medicine
(“Disease modeling and drug discovery for hereditary dilated cardiomyopathy using patient specific iPS cells”)
- Speaker
- Masamichi Ito, Project Assistant Professor, 22nd Century Medical and Research Center
- Participants
- Peking Union Medical College Hospital
The 43rd meeting
Friday, January 19, 2024
- Theme
- Microsurgery Reconstruction
（“In search of the most reliable microvascular anastomosis in oncologic reconstruction”）
- Speaker
- Shinpei Miyamoto, Associate Professor, Department of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery
- Participants
- Zhejiang Provincial People's Hospital and its affiliated hospitals
The 42nd meeting
Tuesday, December 26, 2023
- Theme
- Chronic Post-Surgical Pain (CPSP) treatment
（“Chronic Post-Surgical Pain(CPSP) treatment in our hospital in Japan”）
- Speaker
- Reo Inoue, Lecturer, Surgical Center
- Participants
- Zhejiang Provincial People's Hospital and its affiliated hospitals
The 41st meeting
Tuesday, December 19, 2023
- Theme
- Diabetes and Preventive Medicine
- Speaker
- Yoko Iizuka, Director, Center for International Preventive Medicine/
Department of Diabetes and Metabolic Diseases
- Participants
- The First Hospital of Lanzhou University
The 40th meeting
Friday, December 8, 2023
- Theme
- Gerontology
- Speaker
- Masahiro Akishita, Professor, Department of Geriatric Medicine
- Participants
- Peking Union Medical College Hospital
The 39th meeting
Thursday, December 7, 2023
- Theme
- Gastrointestinal cancer
- Speaker
- Mitsuhiro Fujishiro, Professor, Department of Gastroenterology
- Participants
- Peking Union Medical College Hospital
The 38th meeting
Tuesday, December 5, 2023
- Theme
- Intensive Care
（“Blood purification for sepsis and sepsis associated AKI”）
- Speaker
- Kento Doi, Manager, Department of Emergency and Critical Care Medicine
- Participants
- Zhejiang Provincial People's Hospital
The 37th meeting
Thursday, November 9, 2023
- Theme
- Medical Device Management
- Speaker
- Yugo Nagae, Assistant Professor, Clinical Engineer, Department of Healthcare Information Management
- Participants
- China-Japan Friendship Hospital and its affiliated hospitals
The 36th meeting
Wednesday, November 8, 2023
- Theme
- Microsurgery Reconstruction
（“In search of the most reliable microvascular anastomosis in oncologic reconstruction”）
- Speaker
- Shinpei Miyamoto, Associate Professor, Department of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery
- Participants
- Peking Union Medical College Hospital
The 35th meeting
Monday, November 6, 2023
- Theme
- Research on Genetic diseases (single-gene disease or multifactorial genetic disease)
- Speaker
- Tatsushi Toda, Professor, Department of Neurology
- Participants
- China-Japan Union Hospital of Jilin University
The 34th meeting
Thursday, November 2, 2023
- Theme
- Research on Diabetes Complications
（“Elucidation of roles of insulin resistance and decreased adiponectin action in type 2 diabetes and diabetes complications/comorbidities and development of their therapeutic strategy”）
- Speaker
- Toshimasa Yamauchi, Professor, Department of Diabetes and Metabolic Diseases
- Participants
- China-Japan Union Hospital of Jilin University
The 33rd meeting
Thursday, October 26, 2023
- Theme
- Diabetes
- Speaker
- Yoko Iizuka, Director, Center for International Preventive Medicine/
Department of Diabetes and Metabolic Diseases
- Participants
- China-Japan Union Hospital of Jilin University
The 32nd meeting
Monday, October 23, 2023
- Theme
- China-Japan Health Management Academic Forum
- Speaker
- Nobutake Yamamichi, Director, Center for Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine
Yoko Iizuka, Director, Center for International Preventive Medicine
- Participants
- China-Japan Friendship Hospital and its affiliated hospitals
The 31st meeting
Sunday, October 22, 2023
- Theme
- China-Japan Organ Donation and Transplantation Academic Forum
- Speaker
- Nobuhisa Akamatsu, Associate Professor, Department of Artificial Organ and Transplantation Surgery
- Participants
- China-Japan Friendship Hospital
The 30th meeting
Saturday, October 21, 2023
- Theme
- China-Japan Gastrointestinal Surgery Academic Forum
- Speaker
- Yasuyuki Seto, Professor, Department of Stomach and Esophageal Surgery
Koichi Yagi, Lecturer, Department of Stomach and Esophageal Surgery
The 29th meeting
Friday, October 19, 2023
- Theme
- Chronic Post-Surgical Pain (CPSP) treatment
（“Chronic Post-Surgical Pain (CPSP) treatment in our hospital in Japan”）
- Speaker
- Reo Inoue, Lecturer, Surgical Center
- Participants
- Peking Union Medical College Hospital
The 28th meeting
Tuesday, October 10, 2023
- Theme
- Gerontology (“Treatment of Hypertension and Dementia in the Elderly”)
- Speaker
- Masahiro Akishita, Professor, Department of Geriatrics Medicine
- Participants
- Zhejiang Provincial People's Hospital and its affiliated hospitals
The 27th meeting
Wednesday, September 20, 2023
- Theme
- Preventive Medicine
- Speaker
- Yoko Iizuka, Director of Center for International Preventive Medicine
- Participants
- Fudan University Zhongshan Hospital
The 26th meeting
Monday, September 4, 2023
- Theme
- Diabetic Nephropathy ("Prevention for Aggravation of Diabetic Nephropathy")
- Speaker
- Yoko Iizuka, Department of Diabetes and Metabolic Diseases, Director for Center for International Preventive Medicine
- Participants
- Zhejiang Provincial People's Hospital
The 25th meeting
Friday, June 30, 2023
- Theme
- Gerontology
- Speaker
- Masahiro Akishita, Professor, Department of Geriatric Medicine
- Participants
- Fudan University Zhongshan Hospital
The 24th meeting
Monday, February 6, 2023
- Theme
- Cardiovascular Medicine Treatment
- Speaker
- Kazunari Komuro, Professor, Department of Cardiovascular Medicine
- Participants
- Ruijin Hospital, Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine
The 23rd meeting
Monday, February 6, 2023
- Theme
- Intensive Care
- Speaker
- Kento Doi, Manager, Department of Emergency and Critical Care Medicine
- Participants
- Ruijin Hospital, Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine
The 22nd meeting
Friday, February 3, 2023
- Theme
- Pain Management
- Speaker
- Masahiko Sumitani, Associate Professor, Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Relief Center
- Participants
- Ruijin Hospital, Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine
The 21st meeting
Thursday, February 2, 2023
- Theme
- Asset Management
- Speaker
- Takahiro Hayashi, Chief, Accounting Team, Administration Department
- Participants
- Ruijin Hospital, Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine
The 20th meeting
Wednesday, February 1, 2023
- Theme
- Medical Device Management
- Speaker
- Yugo Nagae, Assistant Professor, Clinical Engineer, Department of Healthcare Information Management
- Participants
- Ruijin Hospital, Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine
The 19th meeting
Tuesday, January 31, 2023
- Theme
- Endoscope
- Speaker
- Mitsuhiro Fujishiro, Professor, Department of Gastroenterology
- Participants
- Ruijin Hospital, Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine
The 18th meeting
Wednesday, January 18, 2023
- Theme
- Uterine cancer
- Speaker
- Kenbun Sone, Lecturer, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology
- Participants
- Ruijin Hospital, Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine
The 17th meeting
Thursday, January 12, 2023
- Theme
- In-Hospital Logistics
- Speakers
- Katsuhiko Yano, Chief, Logistics and Environment Team, Administration Department
Ritsu Sato, Director, SPD (Supply, Processing and Distribution)
- Participants
- Ruijin Hospital, Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine
The 16th meeting
Tuesday, January 10, 2023
- Theme
- Gerontology and Sleep Apnea Syndrome
- Speakers
- Masahiro Akishita, Professor, Department of Geriatric Medicine
Masanori Ishii, Lecturer, Department of Geriatric Medicine
- Participants
- Zhejiang Provincial People's Hospital
The 15th meeting
Saturday, January 7, 2023
- Theme
- Neurosurgical treatment
- Speaker
- Nobuto Saito, Professor, Department of Neurosurgery
- Participants
- Ruijin Hospital, Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine
The 14th meeting
Friday, January 6, 2023
- Theme
- Metastatic liver cancer
- Speaker
- Kiyoshi Hasegawa, Professor, Department of Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Surgery
- Participants
- Ruijin Hospital, Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine
The 13th meeting
Thursday, December 8, 2022
- Theme
- Diabetes and Preventive Medicine (“Japan’s comprehensive management of diabetes and experience in Preventive Medicine---Efforts for Internationalization of Medical Care”)
- Speaker
- Yoko Iizuka, Director, Center for International Preventive Medicine/ Department of Diabetes and Metabolic Diseases
The 12th meeting
Saturday, October 29, 2022
- Theme
- China-Japan Gastrointestinal Surgery Academic Forum
- Speaker
- Yasuyuki Seto, Director of The University of Tokyo Hospital
Yasuhiro Okumura, Manager, Department of Stomach and Esophageal Surgery
The 11th meeting
Friday, October 28, 2022
- Theme
- China-Japan Organ Donation and Transplantation
Academic Forum
- Speaker
- Kiyoshi Hasegawa, Professor, Department of Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Surgery
The 10th meeting
Friday, October 21, 2022
- Theme
- China-Japan Research-based Ward Academic Forum
- Speaker
- Takashi Moritoyo, Director, Clinical Research Promotion Center
Gaku Oguri, Deputy Director, Translational Research(TR) Center
The 9th meeting
Monday, September 5, 2022
- Theme
- Preventive Medicine (“Japan’s Experience in Preventive Medicine and Introduction to Center for International Preventive Medicine, the University of Tokyo Hospital”)
- Speaker
- Yoko Iizuka, Director, Center for International Preventive Medicine
The 8th meeting
Saturday, August 27, 2022
- Theme
- Preventive Medicine (“Japan’s Experience in Preventive Medicine and Introduction to Center for International Preventive Medicine, the University of Tokyo Hospital”)
- Speaker
- Yoko Iizuka, Director, Center for International Preventive Medicine
The 7th meeting
Saturday, June 18, 2022
- Theme
- Colorectal cancer (“Robotic surgery for rectal cancer with lateral pelvic lymph node metastasis”)
- Speaker
- Souichirou Ishihara, Professor, Department of Colon and Rectal Surgery
The 6th meeting
Saturday, June 18, 2022
- Theme
- Diabetes (“Comprehensive Management of Diabetes in Japan and Research on Development of Japanese-style Diabetes Medical Services in China”)
- Speaker
- Yoko Iizuka, Director, Center for International Preventive Medicine / Department of Diabetes and Metabolic Diseases
The 5th meeting
Saturday, May 28, 2022
- Theme
- Preventive Medicine (“Japan’s Experience in Preventive Medicine and Introduction to Center for International Preventive Medicine, the University of Tokyo Hospital”)
- Speaker
- Yoko Iizuka, Director, Center for International Preventive Medicine
The 4th meeting
Saturday, April 30, 2022
- Theme
- Hepatocellular carcinoma (“Diagnosis and surgical treatments for hepatocellular carcinoma")
- Speaker
- Kiyoshi Hasegawa, Professor, Department of Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Surgery
The 3rd meeting
Saturday, January 15, 2022
- Theme
- Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery (“Microvascular Reconstruction for Oncologic Defects")
- Speaker
- Shinpei Miyamoto, Lecturer, Department of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery
The 2nd meeting
Saturday, June 19, 2021
- Theme
- Endoscope (“Endoscopic screening and resection in Japan”)
- Speaker
- Yoshiki Sakaguchi, Assistant Professor, Department of Gastroenterology
The 1st meeting
Saturday, April 10, 2021
- Theme
- Diabetes (“Efforts for Internationalization of Medical Care in Diabetes”)
- Speaker
- Yoko Iizuka, Director, Center for International Preventive Medicine / Department of Diabetes and Metabolic Diseases
Request for cooperation in clinical research
In our center, in addition to provide advanced medical examinations, we will utilize the accumulated data for the further development of preventive medicine. For more details of clinical studies, please see below. Thank you for your understanding and cooperation.
In addition to conducting medical examination services to maintain and promote the overall health of examinees throughout their lives, Center for International Preventive Medicine conducts clinical researches with the aim of contributing to preventive medicine from a global perspective by investigating clinical information and test results obtained through examinations.
Research Topics
Retrospective non-interventional clinical research at Center for International Preventive Medicine
Research period
April 1, 2021 to March 31, 2026
Persons who are being studied
Individuals who were examined at our center between April 1, 2021 and March 31, 2026.
Objectives
The aims of study are to develop new diagnostic methods for various diseases, including lifestyle-related diseases, cardiovascular diseases, cerebrovascular diseases, and malignant tumors, to search for factors involved in prevention and progression control, to establish models for disease prevention and medical economics from a global perspective by comparing other countries with Japan, and to establish a model medical system for the international development of preventive medicine.
Methods
For statistical analysis, we will collect clinical information, physical examination, blood, urine and stool test results, and data from physiological, radiological, endoscopic and histopathological examinations. The research does not directly affect the health condition of examinees by not adding tests other than screening items.
Protection of Personal Information
In this study, the information and data of the examinees are strictly managed and analyzed in our center with a password-locked personal computer, omitting personal information that can identify the examinee, such as his or her name and this information will not leak to the outside.
Voluntariness of research cooperation and freedom to withdraw
If you do not wish your data to be used for this research, please contact us at the following address below within one year of your medical examination visit. If you do not contact us, we will assume that you have accepted our request. In case that you do not cooperate in research, you will not be disadvantaged.
Publication of research results
Research results may be published in academic conferences or academic journals in a form that is not personally identifiable. Results will be disclosed on a personal or overall basis upon personal inquiry.
Handling of materials after completion of research
Information and data collected in this research will be used only for this research under strict control and will be stored for five years after completion of the research.
Cost sharing
The cost of this research will be paid out of the delegated funds obtained at the center and will not be charged to the examinees. There is no honorarium for examinees.
Conflicts of interest
There are no conflicts of interest to be disclosed in connection with this research.
Others
This research was approved by the Ethics Committee of the University of Tokyo, Faculty of Medicine (Review No. 2021012 NI・Date of approval: April 23, 2021) and was conducted with permission from the Director of the University of Tokyo Hospital. Also, as the research progresses, any changes will be updated on the website as soon as possible.
If you have any comments or questions, please feel free to contact us the following address below.
April 2021
Contact information
Center for International Preventive Medicine, the University of Tokyo Hospital
Director of the research: Yoko Iizuka
Address: 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo
Email address: IntPreventive@adm.h.u-tokyo.ac.jp