2015 JMSA Scholarship Recipients with Affiliations and Proposed Projects
 

Honjo-JMSA Scholarship

Kenji Fujitani (Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai)
Expanding JMSA shadowing program and CPR community outreach program

Kenny Nakazawa (Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai)
JMSA medical career night events to get a better understanding of different medical careers
 

Nishioka-JMSA Scholarship

Michael Hurley (Stanford University School of Medicine)
Organize a forum where students and physicians can share articles for evidence based policy recommendations

Kaoru Takasaki (Yale University School of Medicine)
Study the transition of physicians between US and Japan for success and barriers from a systems perspectives

Joji Kohjima (Rush Medical College)
Study inter-generational effects of atomic bombing and ionizing radiation

Mitsui USA-JMSA Scholarship

Priscilla Sugianto (Stanford University School of Medicine)
Learn to provide culturally competent medical service to Japanese Americans through survey

Claire Mann (Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai)
Alcohol misuse among the Daiichi and Daini Fukushima nuclear power plant workers since 3.11

Yoshiko Toyoda (Weill Cornell Medical College)
Big Brother/Big Sister Japanese Medical Students mentorship program for JMSA

Naoka Murakami, MD (Medicine Resident at Mount Sinai Beth Israel)
“Dialysis Info Share App” for awareness and preparedness of emergency and natural disasters

Mika Ito, MD (Pediatric Resident at Maimonides Medical Center)
Establish the Japanese Association of Pediatrics in North America (JAPAN)

Toyota-JMSA Scholarship

Dan Ebner (Brown University School of Medicine)
A carbon-ion radiotherapy study at the National Institute of Radiological Sciences (NIRS) in Chiba, Japan

Christina Anderson (Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai MPH program)
Study the Post Traumatic Growth (PTGI) of students and guide medical schools’ response to future disasters

Nippon Life-JMSA Scholarship

Jiae Lee (SUNY Downstate)
Keep JMSA website current as a web team among project organizers and student members

Ayumi Maeda, MD (Anesthesiology Resident at Mass General Hospital)
Share strength of US anesthesia training system with Japanese colleague

Kuro Murase MD-JMSA Scholarship

Shintaro Yamada, PhD (Post-Doctorate Fellow at Memorial Sloan-Kettering)
Organize a science forum for all Japanese medical and biomedical researchers in NYC

Raymond Sekiguchi MD-JMSA scholarship

Fumitaka Sugiguchi (Weil Cornell Medical College)
To create a Japanese Medical Students Database in US and Outreach for JMSA

Kathryn Iwata (NYU School of Medicine)
JMSA student recruitment through school financial aid services and medical student body clubs