Message from the Top

Message from the Chairperson of the Board of Trustees

TAKAYANAGI Motoaki M.D, Ph.D
Chairperson of the Board of Trustees

Developing medical professionals to meet the needs of the times and the world, with tradition and innovation serving as the cornerstones of learning

We, the Faculty of Medicine, the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, and the University Hospital, work together to nurture the medical professionals, for the health of the people.

Founded in 2016, the Faculty of Medicine successfully reached completion by graduating its first class in March 2022. Our Faculty of Medicine, established for the first time in 37 years for the countermeasure of the Great East Japan Earthquake, has the mission of fostering doctors capable of contributing to the local community, and assuming significant roles in resolving the medical issues inherent in the Tohoku region. To achieve this goal, our students do not only learn medical knowledge but have unique experience. They repeatedly visit the specific Tohoku community with the same members to acquire the clinical skills indispensable for community medicine, while also gaining insights into the local society.

Since its founding in 1939, our university has played a leading role in pharmaceutical education and research, including the first establishment of a research institute and graduate school, within a private pharmaceutical university, and the acquisition of an affiliated hospital as a place for the clinical practice in pharmacy. Many of our alumni work in medical institutions all over the Tohoku region, supporting medicine at the perspective of pharmacy. Our University Hospital has been reorganized into two hospitals with the establishment of the Faculty of Medicine, as Tohoku Medical and Pharmaceutical University Hospital, and Tohoku Medical and Pharmaceutical University Wakabayashi Hospital. The new university hospital wing with the latest medical equipment and facilities was completed at Tohoku Medical and Pharmaceutical University Hospital in 2019, enabling us to provide more advanced medical care than ever before. The university hospital will continue to play a role as a general hospital providing regional medical care, as a facility for clinical training to students, and for medical and pharmaceutical research. With the decline in the population of 18-year-olds (the so-called "2018 problem"), private schools are facing to difficult periods. However, we will continue to widen the cooperation between the Faculty of Medicine, the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, and the University Hospital, seeking ways to conduct education and research with a synergistic effect, and continuing to be a vibrant university. We also promise to contribute regional medicine for the health and welfare of the people by fostering the medical professionals who are strongly in demand.

Message from the President

OHNO Isao M.D, Ph.D
President

Educating a diverse medical workforce through collaboration among the Faculty of Medicine, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, and University Hospital

The founding spirit of Tohoku Medical and Pharmaceutical University—the pursuit of truth—holds that truth is to be sought in all eras, and indicates our commitment to cultivating advanced and specialized skills as the mainstay of our research and education. Under this founding spirit, we, as a medical university with a Faculty of Medicine, a Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, and two University Hospitals, are nurturing diverse human resources who will support the future of community medical care in Tohoku.

The Faculty of Medicine, established in 2016, provides a distinctive regional medical education based on medical expertise, where students learn while participating in community medical care at the frontlines of daily life throughout the Tohoku region. Many graduates from the first and second graduating classes of the program are now pursuing their medical careers in the Tohoku region with a strong sense of mission. The Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, founded in 1939, has trained a diverse range of human resources including pharmacists, drug-related researchers, and government officials. Now, physicians and pharmacists are required to have not only expertise in medicine and the pharmaceutical sciences, but also a wide range of abilities as medical professionals. At the University Hospitals, students from the Department of Medicine and Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences are learning cutting-edge knowledge, skills, and advanced medical care, as well as experiencing the importance of team-based medicine by participating in medical care together. The Department of Pharmaceutical Life Sciences, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, in cooperation with the Faculty of Medicine, nurtures talented individuals who will be active in the field of life sciences with a foundation in pharmaceutical sciences.

While leveraging the university’s past achievements and experience, we will promote effective coordination among the Faculty of Medicine, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, and the University Hospitals, and thereby contribute to the sustainable development of community medical care by nurturing a diverse pool of human resources in the high-demand fields of medicine and pharmaceutical sciences.