JMSA Shadowing Program Report 3 Message from Megumi Grace Sugita: The shadowing opportunity I had through JMSA will influence me throughout my pursuit in medicine. I arrived at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital to shadow cardiothoracic surgeons Dr. Hitoshi Hirose, Dr.…
2015 JMSA Scholarship Recipients with Affiliations and Proposed Projects Honjo-JMSA Scholarship Kenji Fujitani (Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai) Expanding JMSA shadowing program and CPR community outreach program Kenny Nakazawa (Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai) JMSA…
JMSA Shadowing Program Report 2 Message from Yoshiki Takeyama: Through the JMSA shadowing program, I shadowed Dr. Kano [JMSA Mentor] for 3 sessions. I had the opportunity to observe what a typical day is like for a physician and it…
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…
