Apr 03, 2020 Robert Yanagisawa, President of the Japanese Medical Society of America (JMSA) who sees patients in New York, the world’s largest epidemic with COVID 19 infections, is a professor at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. In…
Year: 2020
Taking care of your mental health in the face of COVID-19 outbreak
Written by: Takashi Matsuki, M.D. Board-Certified Psychiatrist Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai In the midst of this pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), we are living in a very stressful time. Everyone reacts differently to…
What to do if you think you or a family member may have coronavirus
Written by: Maki Kano-Lueckerath, M.D. Vice President, JMSA Attending in Internal Medicine and Pediatrics, The Mount Sinai Japanese Medical Practice During this difficult time, as we face a Pandemic of COVID-19, many people are grappling with questions of what to…
The spread of COVID-19 and how to manage your symptoms and health
Author: Makoto Iwahara, M.D. Attending, Department of Gastroenterology, Lenox Hill Hospital New York City is now the United States epicenter of the corona virus, also known as Covid-19. As of 3/25/2020, NYC has over 20,000 people infected with the virus.…
Let’s support our community against this great adversity
Dear JMSA Members and Friends, The current situation with the Coronavirus pandemic is certainly a challenge of unprecedented proportions to all of us. However, such a challenge gives us an opportunity to rise to the occasion and become beacons of hope for our community. We began…
[Updated] The Effect of the Coronavirus on Pregnancy By Dr. Yuzuru Anzai
Dr. Yuzuru Anzai has compiled information on COVID-19 and its effects on pregnant women. Dr. Anzai is a past president of JMSA. He is an attending at Lenox Hill Hospital and President, New York Midtown OBGYN COVID-19 and Pregnancy Little…
Postponing the New York Hideyo Noguchi Memorial Scholarship
Dear Applicants for the New York Hideyo Noguchi Memorial Scholarship 2020:Due to the rapid spread of COVID-19, we have decided that we must postpone the selection process for the 2020 New York Hideyo Noguchi Memorial Scholarship. Many of those involved in the…
Posptoning our 48th JMSA Annual Spring Dinner
Dear JMSA member and friend:Due to the spread of COVID-19, we have postponed our 48th JMSA Annual Spring dinner originally scheduled for April 25, 2020. We have chosen a new date of August 15, 2020 with sincere hopes that the…
Postponing Annual Dinner
Dear JMSA member and friend:Due to the current spread of COVID-19, we have decided to postpone our annual dinner originally scheduled for 4/25/20.We are in the process of determining a new date for the dinner and once we finalize the…
The 3rd New York Hideyo Noguchi Memorial Scholarship- 2020
Dear JMSA Member and Friend: The New York Hideyo Noguchi Memorial Society, Inc. (HNMS) is requesting applications for the 2020 scholarship. The scholarship is designed to support young life scientists from Japan who are pursuing a research career in the…