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Director and Managers

Name Title	Profile	Main Activities
Keiichiro Yamamoto Director of the Department of Clinical Research Management	He got his Ph.D. from the Kyoto University in 2010. After working at the University of Tokyo for a while, he was appointed to current position. Areas of specialty: Moral philosophy, Bioethics (especially research ethics).	After serving as an external member of the Center's Research Ethics Committee in 2014, He got the current job at the Center for Clinical Research, where he helped establish the Bioethics Section and is involved in supporting and educating researchers of the Center in terms of research ethics and clinical ethics. As for the former, for example, he organizes and manages the CCS Clinical Research Consultation Team. Currently, his research interests lie in bioethics/medical ethics/research ethics/clinical ethics as a normative discipline.
Kyoko Takashima Manager of the Office of Bioethics	She got her M.P.H. (2011) and Ph.D. (2015) from the University of Tokyo. After working at the Institute of Medical Science, University of Tokyo, she started working at NCGM in 2018. She was appointed to her current position in 2023. Areas of specialty: Bioethics	She works as a research ethics consultant and a member of the Research Ethics Committee and other research review boards in JIHS. She also engages in the Clinical Ethics Committee and is a member of the Ethics Support Team at the hospital, NCGM. Her research interests are research ethics and ELSI in genomic medicine and research.
Yumi Matsushita Manager of the Office of Clinical Research and Education Promotion	Graduated from Tokyo Medical and Dental University Graduate School (March 2004). After working at the University of Tokyo Hospital (Department of Diabetes and Metabolic Diseases), joined the National Center for Global Health and Medicine from October 2006. Specialties: Obesity and Diabetes	We train clinical researchers. As education for all those involved in clinical research, we hold a training course for those eligible for clinical research certification, and as individual education, we provide 3-month training at the Clinical Research Center. In conducting research, we place special emphasis on turning ideas into research queries and creating protocols, providing support when conducting research, and assisting with conference presentations and writing papers. As a clinical researcher myself, I would like to share the joy of research. We also offer training programs to develop leadership skills for infectious disease crisis management.

Name
Title

Profile

Main Activities

Keiichiro Yamamoto

Director of the Department of Clinical Research Management

He got his Ph.D. from the Kyoto University in 2010. After working at the University of Tokyo for a while, he was appointed to current position.
Areas of specialty:
Moral philosophy, Bioethics (especially research ethics).

After serving as an external member of the Center's Research Ethics Committee in 2014, He got the current job at the Center for Clinical Research, where he helped establish the Bioethics Section and is involved in supporting and educating researchers of the Center in terms of research ethics and clinical ethics. As for the former, for example, he organizes and manages the CCS Clinical Research Consultation Team. Currently, his research interests lie in bioethics/medical ethics/research ethics/clinical ethics as a normative discipline.

Kyoko Takashima

Manager of the Office of Bioethics

She got her M.P.H. (2011) and Ph.D. (2015) from the University of Tokyo. After working at the Institute of Medical Science, University of Tokyo, she started working at NCGM in 2018. She was appointed to her current position in 2023.
Areas of specialty:
Bioethics

She works as a research ethics consultant and a member of the Research Ethics Committee and other research review boards in JIHS. She also engages in the Clinical Ethics Committee and is a member of the Ethics Support Team at the hospital, NCGM. Her research interests are research ethics and ELSI in genomic medicine and research.

Yumi Matsushita

Manager of the Office of Clinical Research and Education Promotion

Graduated from Tokyo Medical and Dental University Graduate School (March 2004).
After working at the University of Tokyo Hospital (Department of Diabetes and Metabolic Diseases), joined the National Center for Global Health and Medicine from October 2006.
Specialties: Obesity and Diabetes

We train clinical researchers. As education for all those involved in clinical research, we hold a training course for those eligible for clinical research certification, and as individual education, we provide 3-month training at the Clinical Research Center. In conducting research, we place special emphasis on turning ideas into research queries and creating protocols, providing support when conducting research, and assisting with conference presentations and writing papers. As a clinical researcher myself, I would like to share the joy of research. We also offer training programs to develop leadership skills for infectious disease crisis management.

Others

Name	Position
Office of Bioethics
Yasuko Ino	Pharmacist
Shohei Suzuki	Project researcher
Tomoko Tanaka	Research assistant

Name	Position
Office of Clinical Research and Education Promotion
Kie Nagao	Research assistant

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