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Regional Advanced Medicine / Internal Medicine Lab (Iwaki City Medical Center)
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A collaborative department based at a hospital in Iwaki City that approaches digestive diseases from the community.

AboutAbout the lab
Community-based medical research and medical education.
The Internal Medicine field (Gastroenterology) of the Department of Regional Advanced Medicine is a collaborative department between the Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine and Iwaki City Medical Center, led by Prof. Takahashi.
Its listed research themes include the pathology and treatment of inflammatory bowel disease, the long-term course and carcinogenesis of NASH, the epidemiology and pathology of hepatitis E, and changes over time in gastrointestinal bleeding.
In the collaborative department, visiting professors and medical students taking the course work at Iwaki City Medical Center and conduct research on community medicine.
Enrolled students can earn a degree while working as physicians at Iwaki City Medical Center.
Key terms
- Collaborative department
- A department established through an agreement between a graduate school and a hospital. Visiting professors and students work at the hospital while conducting research on community medicine
- Inflammatory bowel disease
- A general term for diseases that cause inflammation of the intestines. It is classified as an intractable disease, and promoting diagnosis and treatment within local medical areas is called for
- Multicenter prospective study
- A research approach in which multiple hospitals enroll patients under a common protocol and investigate by following their subsequent course
ResearchResearch themes
With the arrival of a super-aged society, treatment of digestive diseases must often begin while patients have many comorbidities. This department was established to advance community-based medical research and medical education and to develop cutting-edge clinical care for digestive diseases.
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- ProfessorSeiichi Takahashi
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The top and research theme images are illustrative and were not taken at the lab. They are cropped from Wikimedia Commons images. Cropped CC BY-SA images are provided under the same CC BY-SA license as the original (version shown on each line).
- Top image: “A long corridor in Seacroft Hospital - geograph.org.uk - 6837541” Rich Tea / CC BY-SA 2.0 (cropped)
- Community-Based Research on Digestive Diseases: “Colonoscope” Gilo1969 / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
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