Profiles And Contributions To This Article

Supporting rural remote physicians to conduct a study and write a paper: Experience of Clinical Research Support Team (CRST)-Jichi

Shigeki  Matsubara

Prof Shigeki Matsubara

qualifications: MD, PhD

contribution: original concept, designed the project, wrote the first draft

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.


Akihide  Ohkuchi

Akihide Ohkuchi

qualifications: MD, PhD

contribution: original concept, designed the project, contributed to drafts

position: Associate professor


Toyomi  Kamesaki

Toyomi Kamesaki

qualifications: MD, PhD

contribution: collected data, contributed to drafts

position: Associate professor


Shizukiyo  Ishikawa

Shizukiyo Ishikawa

qualifications: MD, PhD

contribution: contributed to drafts

position: Professor

Japan

Cardiovascular cohort study in Japanese populasion Epidemiology community medicine


Yosikazu  Nakamura

Yosikazu Nakamura

qualifications: MD, PhD

contribution: original concept

position: Professor


Masatoshi  Matsumoto

Prof Masatoshi Matsumoto

qualifications: MD, PhD

contribution: contributed to drafts, collected data

position: Associate professor

Japan

Masatoshi Matsumoto is the professor of rural health at Hiroshima University, Japan. He is a general practitioner who worked for some years in the least populated mountain village in rural Japan. He has taught rural health at Jichi Medical University, the Japanese medical school founded solely for producing rural doctors, for more than ten years. His academic interests are rural health policy, rural medical education, medical anthropology and rural community-based epidemiology.


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