JMSA Shadowing Program Report 1 Message from Christina Theodorou: Through the JMSA Shadowing Program, I was able to shadow Dr. Erich Anderer [JMSA mentor], a Japanese-American neurosurgeon practicing at Maimonides Medical Center in Brooklyn. I watched as he performed an…
To sign up for JMSA Shadowing Program, please follow the links below Healthcare Professional Mentor Sign Up (http://tinyurl.com/kr9qwry) Student Sign Up (http://tinyurl.com/k263oqt)
JMSA Project Report 6 Lisa Akiyama (Medical Student, Oakland University: William Beaumont School of Medicine, Rochester, MI) Project: To educate Japanese women about cervical cancer screening. Download the pdf here
JMSA Project Report 5 Noah Berland (Medical Student, NYU School of Medicine, New York, NY) Project: To Create JMSA Physician Maps on Google Maps Please see Noah's work here
JMSA Project Report 4 Dan Ebner (Medical Student, Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, RI) Project: Studying the health effects of radiation, evacuation, diet, and stress in Kawauchi Village, within the exclusion zone of the Fukushima Nuclear Disaster. …
2014 JMSA Scholarship Recipients Honjo-JMSA Scholarship Alisa Prager (Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons) Project: Organize Nishimiya fellowship to send 1-2 students to Fukushima/To start a shadowing program for students within JMSA Kenji Fujitani (Icahn School of Medicine at Mount…
The Nishimiya Fellows Program is a week-long seminar held at Fukushima Medical University (FMU) that introduces students to the topics of disaster medicine and gives them an opportunity to learn more about the long-lasting effects of the earthquake and tsunami that devastated…
2013 Project Midterm Report 3 Kenji Fujitani (MS1, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai) Project: One of my projects was to plan a global health program to visit Fukushima during the summer to study the effects of the nuclear…
2013 Project Year End Report Alisa Prager (MS2, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons) Project: To expand the CJR Nishimiya Fellows program to provide opportunities for more medical students to go to Fukushima. Contact: alisa.prager@gmail.com Project Summary and Update…
2013 Project Midterm Report 2 Chihiro Shinohara (Physician’s Assistant student, Pace University) Project: To introduce PA’s to the Japanese Community and to create a student committee to provide support for Japanese high school and college students who seek to work…
