WHO states 65-70 % of population needs to be vaccinated to reach a herd immunity to reduce viral transmissions in the population. According to Johns Hopkins’s study, many non-white Americans indicate they are weary of political pressure on COVID vaccines…
Year: 2020
Health Column: Student Doctor Ponders the Quality of Life
The following Japanese articles are published at Las Vegas Japan Times (LVJT) written by Yusuke Nakagawa, the JMSA lead student representative & the third year medical student at Tulane University School of Medicine. The articles share clerkship experience during the…
JMSA Career Support Seminar
We are pleased to announce that we are hosting a JMSA Career Support Seminar in Japanese to help Japanese researchers have a successful research career in the USThe event will be held online on Zoom and will be conducted in…
Scholarship Application for the Japanese Medical Society of America
Our Mission The Japanese Medical Society of America (JMSA) was established in 1973, as a nonprofit organization by Japanese medical professionals serving the New York region with a mission to support the Japanese and Japanese-American communities through various health related…
2020 Scholarship Announcement
Thanks to our generous donors, we were able to give 13 scholarship awards to our healthcare professionals in training this year. Below are the awardees of the JMSA scholarship 2020, along with their proposed scholarship projects. Congratulations to this year’s…
2019 JMSA Scholarship Awardees
Congratulations to this year’s JMSA Scholarship Recipients! Below are the awardees of the JMSA scholarship 2019, along with their proposed scholarship projects. Nishioka – JMSA Scholarship Kristen Homma, Medical Student at Albert Einstein College of Medicine Project: To create a…
Harnessing New Technologies to Battle COVID-19 with a Nobel Laureate Dr. Shinya Yamanaka
The Japan Center for International Exchange (JCIE) and the Consulate General of Japan in New York co-hosted a special webinar featuring Dr. Shinya Yamanaka, the recipient of the 2012 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. The event started with special remarks from…
Virtual 9/11-3/11 Tohoku Outreach Program with Live Zoom discussions
Our Virtual 9/11-3/11 Tohoku Outreach Program with Live Zoom discussions will take place on Tue 9/29 8:40-10:40pm EST. Thanks to Professor Yabe of FMU, the conference chairman, it will be open to the public. The recorded conference is now available…
JCOP 2020 Application
Dear JMSA Member and Friend:We hope you are doing well despite these challenging times. JMSA is now accepting JCOP 2020 applications! JMSA Community Outreach Program Grant Application 2020: The Japanese Medical Society of America (JMSA) seeks to help support social and medically related Japanese…
Accepting applications for the New York Hideyo Noguchi Memorial Scholarship 2020: deadline August 1st 2020
Dear Applicants for the New York Hideyo Noguchi Memorial Scholarship 2020:The deadline for the applications is August 1, 2020 and we will announce the recipient in early September. We hope to present the recipient at the JMSA Virtual Annual Dinner on 9/19/20. This…