
qualifications: MD, PhD
position: Professor
Since 2002, Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology and the Vice President of Center for Perinatal Medicine, Jichi Medical University, Tochigi, Japan. I have been working as an obstetrician for 3 decades and hitherto wrote 105 first author English peer-reviewed papers. The Chief of Clinical Research Support Team (CRST)-Jichi, which helps remote physicians to write scientific papers. I used to be a remote rural general physician myself.
				The Australian Allied Health Rural Generalist Pathway					
					
						
					
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				Pleasure and suffering in the rural nurse’s work process					
					
						
					
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				Clinical courage in rural Asia: a Philippine perspective					
					
						
					
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				Rural Mental Health Conference 2025 (RMHC25), 5–7 November 2025, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia		
					
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				OECD Latin American Rural Development Conference, 25–28 November 2025, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil		
					
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				SARGA 2026, Rural Generalist Anaesthetist Conference, 12–14 February 2026, Barossa Valley, South Australia		
					
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				Preventive Mental Health Conference 2026, Parramatta, Dharug Country, Australia, 24 & 25 March 2026		
					
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				21st WONCA World Rural Health Conference, 10–13 April 2026, Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand		
					
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				33rd Annual Rural and Remote Medicine Conference, 16–18 April 2026, Quebec City, Canada		
					
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				4th EURACT Medical Education Conference, 23–25 April 2026, Iasi, Romania		
					
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				11th Health Promotion Conference, 10–12 June 2026, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Harstad, Norway		
					
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				9th WONCA Africa Region Conference 2026, 10 & 11 September 2026, Gaborone, Botswana		
					
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18th National Rural Health Conference, 14–17 September 2026, Adelaide, SA, Australia
				World Indigenous Suicide Prevention Conference 2026, 17–19 September 2026, Kirikiriroa (Hamilton), New Zealand		
					
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				5th International Indigenous Health and Wellbeing Conference, 8–10 June 2027, Larrakia Country, Darwin, NT, Australia 		
					
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