M.D., Ph.D. Professor Taku Iwami
Department of Preventive Services aim to product evidences to resolve familiar clinical questions and improve clinical practices in any stage of diseases including health promotion, preventive medicine, and resuscitation against cardiac arrests.
We welcome not only medical doctors but also nurses, pharmacists, and other medical or healthcare professionals who want to learn epidemiology and conduct clinical study to improve clinical practice and patients’ outcomes.
Research and Education
Academic Policy
- We focus on the appropriate scientific methodology.
- We will conduct studies based-on clinical questions from the scene and feedback the results to the scene.
- We emphasis the importance of a teamwork across jobs and fields to make a good study to improve practice and patients’ outcomes.
Educational policy / system
We recommend students to experience a whole process from making a study protocol to publishing a paper, and provide a mentoring by faculties and weekly conference. We also recommend and support the process to feedback outputs of studies to society.
Typical studies
The impact of nation-wide dissemination of an automated external defibrillator in Japan [1], the effectiveness of chest compression-only cardiopulmonary resuscitation [2], the effectiveness of dispatcher instruction with chest compression-only CPR to increase CPR by bystanders [3], a randomized controlled trial to compare Kakkonto, Japanese herbal medicine, to a western-style medicine among common cold patients [4], Effectiveness of a healthcare retreat for male employees with cardiovascular risk factors [5].
We conducted a population-based cohort study of out-of-hospital cardiac arrests in Osaka, Japan and demonstrated the effectiveness of chest compression-only CPR (CCCPR). Circulation. 2007;116:2900-2907.
The poster of randomized controlled trial to compare the effectiveness of Kakkonto, a Japanese herbal medicine, to a western-style medicine among common cold patients. Intern Med. 2014;53:949-56.
Recent Publications
- Kitamura T, Kiyohara K, Sakai T, Matsuyama T, Hatakeyama T, Shimamoto T,Izawa J, Fujii T, Nishiyama C, Kawamura T, Iwami T. Public-Access Defibrillation and Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest in Japan. The New England Journal of Medicine. 2016; 375: 1649-1659.
- Iwami T, Kawamura T, Hiraide A, Berg RA, Hayashi Y, Nishiuchi T, Kajino K, Yonemoto N, Yukioka H, Sugimoto H, Kakuchi H, Sase K, Yokoyama H, Nonogi H. Effectiveness of Bystander-Initiated Cardiac-Only Resuscitation for Patients with Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest. Circulation. 2007; 116: 2900-2907.
- Tomonari Shimamoto, Yukiko Tateyama, Daisuke Kobayashi, Keiichi Yamamoto, Yoshimitsu Takahashi, Hiroaki Ueshima, Kosuke Sasaki, Takeo Nakayama, Taku Iwami. Survival and medical costs of non-small cell lung cancer patients according to the first-line treatment: An observational study using the Kyoto City Integrated Database. Thoracic cancer. 2023 2023 Jun;14(17). PubMed PMID: 37082875.
- Tomonari Shimamoto, Yukiko Tateyama, Daisuke Kobayashi, Keiichi Yamamoto, Yoshimitsu Takahashi, Hiroaki Ueshima, Kosuke Sasaki, Takeo Nakayama, Taku Iwami. Providing Brief Personalized Therapies for Insomnia Among Workers Using a Sleep Prompt App: Randomized Controlled Trial. Journal of medical Internet research. 2022 07/25/2022;24(7). PubMed PMID: 35877164.
- Norihiro Nishioka, Daisuke Kobayashi, Takeyuki Kiguchi,Taro Irisawa, Tomoki Yamada, Kazuhisa Yoshiya, Taku Iwami, et al. Development and validation of early prediction for neurological outcome at 90 days after return of spontaneous circulation in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. Resuscitation. 2021 2021 Nov;168. PubMed PMID: 34619295.
Laboratory
Professor：Taku Iwami
Program-specific Assistant Professor：Tomonari Shimamoto, Yukiko Tateyama, Norihiro Nishioka
E-mail: info@yobou.med.kyoto-u.ac.jp
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