Medical Specialist Invitation and Dispatch Programme

Quality of Life Foundation, Support Council of International Activities for General Medical Research (QoLF) was established in May 2019. On this occasion, the present corporation took over the project of inviting and dispatching medical specialists, which has been carried out by the NPO Quality of Life Foundation, to promote exchange programmes medical scientists and specialists between Japan and the world, aiming for the future in which as many people as possible can receive the best possible medical care.

Past achievements of invitations

 

FY2022

Endorsement by the Embassy of Greece
Breast surgeon: Dr. Dimitrios Kokkonis

Affiliation in Greece:

Training sites:

the University of Tokyo Hospital and Cancer Institute Hospital of Japanese Foundation for Cancer Research

Endorsement by the Embassy of the Argentine Republic
HPB surgeon: Dr. Ezequiel Aníbal Silberman

Affiliation in the Argentine Republic:

Training sites:

the University of Tokyo Hospital, Cancer Institute Hospital of Japanese Foundation for Cancer Research

Endorsement by the Embassy of the Republic of Colombia
Dr. Mauricio Borrero

Affiliation in Colombia:

University of Antioquia, Medellin, Colombia.

Training sites:

University of Tokyo Hospital, Cancer Institute Hospital of Japanese Foundation for Cancer Research

 

FY2019

Endorsement by the Embassy of the Argentine Republic
Dr. Patricia Ferreira Mongelos

Affiliation in Argentine Republic:

Sobre Sanatorio de Los Arco

Training sites:

the University of Tokyo Hospital

Endorsement by the Embassy of the Republic of Croatia
Dr. Iva Kirac

Affiliation in the Republic of Croatia:

University Hospital for Tumors, Sestre milosrdnice UHC

Training sites:

the University of Tokyo Hospital and Cancer Institute Hospital of Japanese Foundation for Cancer Research

 

FY2018

Endorsement by the Embassy of the Republic of Angola
Dr. Teresa Eugenia Lomba Jamba

Affiliation in Angola:

ANGOLAN INSTITUTE FOR CANCER CONTROL

Training sites:

the University of Tokyo Hospital and Cancer Institute Hospital of Japanese Foundation for Cancer Research

Endorsement by the Embassy of the Republic of Angola
Dr. Teresa Eugenia Lomba Jamba

Affiliation in Angola:

ANGOLAN INSTITUTE FOR CANCER CONTROL

Training sites:

the University of Tokyo Hospital and Cancer Institute Hospital of Japanese Foundation for Cancer Research

Endorsement by the Embassy of the Republic of Botswana
Dr. Irene Ikanyeng Setlhako

Affiliation in Botswana:

Princess Marina Hospital

Training sites:

the University of Tokyo Hospital and Cancer Institute Hospital of Japanese Foundation for Cancer Research

 

FY2017

Endorsement by the Embassy of Peru
Dr. Jorge Antonio Dunstan Yataco

Affiliation in Peru:

Peru National Institute of Neoplastic Diseases

Training sites:

Cancer Institute Hospital of Japanese Foundation for Cancer Research

Endorsement by the Embassy of Peru
Dr. Ramiro Manuel Fernandez Placencia

Affiliation in Peru:

Peru National Institute of Neoplastic Diseases

Training sites:

Cancer Institute Hospital of Japanese Foundation for Cancer Research

 

FY2016

Endorsement by the Embassy of the Oriental Republic of Uruguay
Dr. Guillermo Laviña Cassanello

Affiliation in the Eastern Republic of Uruguay:

General surgeon specializing in Mastology and Phlebology

Training sites:

the University of Tokyo Hospital and Cancer Institute Hospital of Japanese Foundation for Cancer Research

Endorsement by the Embassy of the Republic of Armenia
Dr. Armen Kocharyan

Affiliation in the Republic of Armenia:

Head of Diagnostic Imaging Department

Training sites:

Cancer Institute Hospital of Japanese Foundation for Cancer Research and St. Luke’s International Hospital

Endorsement by the Embassy of the Republic of Armenia
Dr. Hovhannes Vardevanyan

Affiliation in the Republic of Armenia:

Head of Diagnostic Imaging Department

Training sites:

Cancer Institute Hospital of Japanese Foundation for Cancer Research and St. Luke’s International Hospital

Endorsement by the Embassy of the Republic of Poland
Dr.Maria Monika Nagadowska

Affiliation in the Republic of Poland:

Senior Assistant, Breast Unit

Training sites:

Cancer Institute Hospital of Japanese Foundation for Cancer Research and St. Luke’s International Hospital

 

FY2015

Endorsement by the Embassy of the Republic of Lithuania
Prof. habil. dr. Algirdas Boguševičius

Affiliation in the Republic of Lithuania:

Kaunas Kardiolita Hospital

Training sites:

St Luke’s International Hospital

Past achievements of dispatches

 

FY2019

Endorsement by Cancer Institute Hospital of Japanese Foundation for Cancer Research
Dr. Takehiko Sakai

Affiliation:

breast surgery, Cancer Institute Hospital of Japanese Foundation for Cancer Research

Sent to:

the AGIOS SAVVAS ANTI CANCER HOSPITAL and METROPOLITAN HOSPITAL in Greece

Endorsement by the Department of International Medicine, The University of Tokyo Hospital
Dr. Yoshikuni Kawaguchi

Affiliation:

Destination:

Instituto Nacional de Enfermedades Neoplásica

 

FY2018

Endorsement by the Department of International Medicine, The University of Tokyo Hospital
Dr. Yoshikuni Kawaguchi

Affiliation:

Destination:

the Colombian Medellin IDC Las Americas and Bogota Universidad Javeriana Hospital San Ignacio

Endorsement by the Department of International Medicine, The University of Tokyo Hospital
Dr. Yoshikuni Kawaguchi

Affiliation:

Destination:

Hospital Nacional Regional “San Juan de Dios”, Republic of El Salvador

Endorsement by the Department of International Medicine, The University of Tokyo Hospital
Dr. Yoshikuni Kawaguchi

Affiliation:

Destination:

Sobre Sanatorio de Los Arcos

 

FY2017

Endorsement by Cancer Institute Hospital of Japanese Foundation for Cancer Research
Dr. Akiko Ogiya

Affiliation:

Destination:

ペルーInstituto Nacional de Enfermedades Neoplásicas

 

FY2015

Endorsement by Japanese Breast Cancer Society International Fellowship Grant
One breast surgeon each from St Luke’s International Hospital and Kyoto University Hospital

Affiliation:

St. Luke’s International Hospital, Kyoto University Hospital

Destination:

 

FY2014

Endorsement by Japanese Breast Cancer Society International Fellowship Grant
Two breast surgeons

Affiliation:

St. Luke’s International Hospital

Destination:

 

FY2013

Joint dispatch with the Japan Pasteur Association
Dr. Muneaki Hashimoto

Affiliation at Pasteur Institute:

Laboratoire des Processus Infectieux à Trypanosomatidés, Dépt. Infection et Epidémiologie

Destination:

 

FY2012

Joint dispatch with the Japan Pasteur Association
Dr. Mami Yamamoto

Affiliation at Pasteur Institute:

Destination:

 

FY2011

Joint dispatch with the Japan Pasteur Association
Dr. Satoko Tokuda

Affiliation at Pasteur Institute:

Unité de Génétique fonctionnelle de la Souris, Dépt. de Biologie du Développement

Destination:

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