Area Advisor
Shin-ichi OHSHIMA
President, National Center for Geriatrics and Gerontology
Expertise/fields of interest
Urology, healthcare for senior citizens, home medical care, healthcare systems
Profile
After graduating from Nagoya University School of Medicine in 1970, Dr. Ohshima entered clinical practice as an urologist at Social Insurance Chukyo Hospital, focusing mainly on kidney transplantation. In 1992, he entered management as the hospital's Deputy Director. In 1997, he became a Professor at Nagoya University School of Medicine, where he taught urology. In 2002, he became Director of Nagoya University Hospital. In March 2004, he became President of the National Center for Geriatrics and Gerontology (NCGG). Since the NCGG's reorganization as an independent administrative agency in April 2010, he has been its President and Chairman of the Board.
Message
Japan is the world's most aged country, the highly aged society. Japan is faced with a society in which the values that served it through the 20th century no longer apply. Those values can be expressed through the words progress, development, advancement, and growth. Healthcare also faces a period of great change. Saving and extending lives while facing the fact that death follows immediately after aging were the goals. A shift from medical care ruled by single-minded devotion to cures to medical care that supports people's lives and from complete curing at hospitals to healthcare supported by entire communities is needed. Home medical care will be at the core of the development of healthcare that develops in whole communities.
