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Masahito Jimbo, Clinical Assistant Professor

 

RESEARCH INTERESTS:

    Interested in the elucidation of social and cultural determinants of health behavior and development of culturally appropriate behavioral intervention tools that would positively affect their health behavior. Interest in the establishment of family medicine as a recognized medical discipline in Japan.

EDUCATION:

  • M.P.H., University of North Carolina School of Public Health, 2000
  • Ph.D., Keio University School of Medicine, 1993
  • M.D., Keio University School of Medicine, 1985

SELECT GRANTS, AWARDS, HONORS AND FELLOWSHIPS:

  • Japan Ministry of Education, Science, and Culture Research Grant, 1994-95
  • Fellowship Grant, Japan-North American Medical Exchange Program, 1993

SELECT PUBLICATIONS:

  • Jimbo, M. "Family medicine: Its core principles and impact on patient care and medical education in the United States," The Keio Journal of Medicine, 2004: 53(2): 69-73.
  • Jimbo, M. "Primary care research for physicians in private practice" (in Japanese), Journal of Integrated Medicine, 2004: 14(4): 308-312.
  • Jimbo, M. "Faculty perspective of family medicine in the United States" (in Japanese), (in) Overseas Training Strategies for Physicians, (ed) Yoshida, S., Fukunishi, I., Biomedica, Tokyo, Japan, 2001: 56-62.
  • Jimbo, M. "Training in family medicine" (in Japanese), (in) Pathways for Clinical Training in the United States, (Second Edition), (ed) Ojima, S., Sato, T., Nakazawa, N., Nanzando, Tokyo, Japan, 2001: 258-264.
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