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Speakers

Mr. Yasuo Otani Advisor, Kanagawa Prefectural Government: Mr. Yasuo Otani was born in 1953. He graduated from the University of Tokyo, Faculty of Law in 1976. He served as Councilor of Cabinet Secretariat, Director General of Equal Employment, Children and Families Bureau, Director General of Minister's Secretariat, Director General of Health Policy Bureau, and Vice-Minister for Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (MHLW).
In May 2014, he was appointed Special Advisor to the Cabinet (until July 2016). In April 2015, he became a board member of The Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development (AMED) (until March 2017) and in July was appointed advisor to Kanagawa Prefectural Government. In April 2016, he was also appointed as President of the Association of Health and Wellness Promotion.

Dr. Ung Il Chung Vice Director (Research Leader) of the University of Tokyo Center of Innovation "Self-managing Healthy Society" Professor, Graduate School of Engineering and Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo: Dr. Chung graduated from the University of Tokyo School of Medicine and obtained MD in 1989. After working as a Resident and Clinical Fellow in Internal Medicine at the University of Tokyo Hospital, he entered and graduated from the University of Tokyo Graduate School of Medicine and obtained PhD in 1997. During the period at the graduate school, he joined, as a Research Fellow, the Endocrine Unit at Massachusetts General Hospital & Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA in 1995. In 1998, he was appointed Instructor in Medicine, Harvard Medical School, and then in 2001 Assistant Professor of Medicine. In 2002, he returned to his alma mater, working at the Graduate Schools of Medicine and Engineering. He holds his current position from 2007.

Dr. Akiko Kishi Svensson Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo: Dr. Akiko Kishi Svensson is a Project Assistant Professor at the Clinical Research Support Center and a specialist physician at the Department of Diabetes and Metabolic Diseases, The University of Tokyo Hospital.
She supports researchers who conduct clinical trials, from protocol writing to providing regulatory information. She is engaged in the Medical Innovation Initiative at The University of Tokyo to educate and raise entrepreneurship and management skills in the field of biomedicine.
Since 2007 she holds a specialist license in occupational health, a specialization which has further developed her interest in preventive medicine.
Since 2016, Dr. Svensson and Dr. Ohkuma have partnered each other to develop a comprehensive system for behavioral preventive medicine in occupational health field. Neither of them has financial conflicts to disclose.

Prof. Shinichi Tokuno Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo: Prof. Shinichi Tokuno graduated from National Defense Medical Collage, Saitama, Japan in 1985, carried out his Diploma in the Medical Care of Catastrophes at the Society of Apothecaries, London, UK in 2001, and also obtained his Ph.D. degree from Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden in 2001. Since 2014, he is a Project Associate Professor of Verbal Analysis of Pathophysiology, Medical School of the University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan.
His major research interests are Medical Engineering, especially noninvasive examination, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and disaster medicine.
Prof. Tokuno was awarded the Jules Voncken Prize for the best poster presentation in 2011.

Mr. Mamoru Yanagimachi Eisai Co., Ltd: Mr. Mamoru Yanagimachi was the representative in the translational science and had conducted therapeutic and biomarker researches not only on Alzheimer’s disease but also on other diseases such as cardiovascular disease, breast cancer, inflammatory bowel disease, and rheumatoid arthritis for almost 10 years in Eisai Product Creation Systems. At present he is Visionary Director of Corporate Business Development Department at the Tokyo head office in Eisai, and representative to lead the research collaboration with The University of Tokyo Center-of-Innovation program to provide the “WASURE-NAVI-TO”, which is a digital device to support AD patients and their family.