Ms. Kumiko Miyasaka

Executive Director of International Strategy
Healthcare New Frontier Promotion Headquarters Office
Kanagawa Prefectural Government

Education: Graduated from Keio University (Department of Political Science, Faculty of Law)
Earned the Master’s Degree from The University of Tokyo Graduate Schools for Law and Politics
Work experience: Kanagawa Prefectural Government
She has experience working in the following departments; policy coordination, vocational training, prefectural hospital administration, information disclosure and personal information protection, employment promotion, etc.
In 2017, she was appointed to the current position.

Prof. Ung-il Chung/Yuichi Tei, M.D., Ph.D

Prof. Ung-il Chung/Yuichi Tei, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor, Graduate School of Engineering and Graduate School of Medicine
Deputy Director, Center of Innovation (COI) Project：Self-Managing Healthy Society
The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Dr. Chung graduated from The University of Tokyo School of Medicine to obtain 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 to obtain PhD in 1997. During the period at graduate school, he joined as a Research Fellow 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 came back to his alma mater at Graduate Schools of Medicine and Engineering. Since 2007, he is holding his current position.
His research area is biomaterials, skeletal biology, and skeletal regenerative medicine. As a physician-scientist, he attempts to create high-performance biomaterials for skeletal regeneration by integrating materials science and life science.
As a Research Leader and Deputy Director of Center of Innovation “Self-managing Healthy Society”, he promotes more than 10 industry-academia cooperation projects, aiming to create health and medical innovation by visualizing health risks and promoting behavior change under the theme of “From hospitalization to outpatient care, From outpatient care to home care, Being healthy at home”. He also studies the relationship of innovation and morality, trying to install the morality engine on artificial intelligence and robots.

Dr. Thomas Svensson, M.D., Ph.D

Graduate School of Medicine
Center of Innovation (COI) Project:Self-Managing Healthy Society
The University of Tokyo,Tokyo,Japan

Dr. Svensson graduated from Lund University, Sweden in 2008. He worked as a medical doctor at the Royal Free Hospital, and the Queen Elizabeth II Hospital in the United Kingdom, before working at the Department of Psychiatry at Skåne University Hospital in Sweden. He obtained his PhD from the Graduate School of Medicine at The University of Tokyo in 2017 with his thesis focusing on the association between stress coping strategies and the risk of cardiovascular disease and cancer. After working as a researcher in the Epidemiology and Prevention Group at the National Cancer Center in Japan, he is currently affiliated with the Center of Disease Biology and Integrative Medicine at The University of Tokyo, the Department of Clinical Sciences at Lund University, and the National Cancer Center, Japan. His main research focuses on stress and sleep, respectively, and their role in disease prevention.

Prof. Shinichi Tokuno, M.D., Ph.D

Project Associate Professor, Graduate School of Medicine
Center of Innovation (COI) Project:Self-Managing Healthy Society
The University of Tokyo,Tokyo,Japan

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.