Research Activities

-At health facilities in the Tohoku region, including the areas affected by the Great East Japan Earthquake, we are conducting research on psychological and physical illnesses caused by earthquake-related stress as well as research on medical services that will withstand natural disasters.
-We are developing an integrated database of personal information that maintains the anonymity of subjects. The information comes from various data sources, including analyses of the biobank's biological specimens, as well as cohort study data, including medical information.

Key Word: health survey, incidental findings, telemedicine, Disaster medicine, Electrical health record, database

Publications

• Association between serious psychological distress and non-participation in cancer screening, and the modifying effect of socioeconomic status: analysis of anonymized data from a national cross-sectional survey in Japan

  Masaki Fujiwara, Masatoshi Inagaki, Naoki Nakaya, Maiko Fujimori, Yuji Higuchi, Kyoko Kakeda, Yosuke Uchitomi, Norihito Yamada
  Cancer (2017) DOI: 10.1002/cncr.31086
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• Impact of social capital on psychological distress and interaction with house destruction and displacement after the Great East Japan Earthquake of 2011

  Naho Tsuchiya, Naoki Nakaya, Tomohiro Nakamura, Akira Narita, Mana Kogure, Jun Aida, Ichiro Tsuji, Atsushi Hozawa and Hiroaki Tomita
  Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences (2016) DOI: 10.1111/pcn.12467
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• Security controls in an integrated Biobank to protect privacy in data sharing: rationale and study design

  Takako Takai-Igarashi, Kengo Kinoshita, Masao Nagasaki, Soichi Ogishima, Naoki Nakamura,Sachiko Nagase, Satoshi Nagaie, Tomo Saito, Fuji Nagami, Naoko Minegishi, Yoichi Suzuki, Kichiya Suzuki, Hiroaki Hashizume, Shinichi Kuriyama, Atsushi Hozawa, Nobuo Yaegashi, Shigeo Kure, Gen Tamiya, Yoshio Kawaguchi, Hiroshi Tanaka and Masayuki Yamamoto
  BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making, 2017, DOI:10.1186/s12911-017-0494-5
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Awards

- Professor Hideyasu Kiyomoto won the Prizes for Science and Technology, Public Understanding Promotion Category (Apr., 2014)
- Professor Teiji Tominaga won the Prizes for Science and Technology, Research Category (Apr., 2014)

Interviews

-Discovering Disaster Dentistry (Interview with Dr. Tsuboi, July 27^th, 2015)
-Delve Deeper: Understanding the Neuroscience behind Disaster Recovery (Interview with Dr. Yasuyuki Taki and Dr. Atsushi Sekiguchi, June 23^rd, 2015)
-Internal and Disaster Medicine Integration (Interview with Dr. Yukari Tanaka, May 15^th, 2015)
-Obstetrics and Disaster Preparedness (Interview with Dr. Junichi Sugawara, February 18^th, 2015)
-Disaster Relief and Community Medicine in Tohoku (Interview with Dr. Tadashi Ishii, January 14^th, 2015)
-Interview with Dr. Kiyomoto from the Department of Community Medical Supports (December 2^nd, 2014)
-“To Provide More Appropriate Medical Services” Dr. Eikan Mishima (Updated on Jun. 6th, 2014)
-“Days at Minamisanriku Public Medical Clinic” Dr. Kazumasa Saigoh (Updated on Jun. 25th, 2014)

Press Releases

-Tohoku University promotes community health service development in the Tohoku region through the ToMMo Clinical Fellowship (Oct. 01, 2012)
-ToMMo hosts brilliant ALSO and BLSO courses in Ishinomaki City-educational programs focused on assisting pregnant women during disasters (Sep. 20, 2012)

News

-The article about construction of integrated database dbTMM has been published in Human Genome Variation (Jan.17, 2022)
-Release of Integrated Database of Tohoku Medical Megabank dbTMM (Apr. 23, 2016)