Improving health and reducing inequities worldwide

The Great East Japan Earthquake and Disasters: One Year Later

March 19, 2012 - 9:00am - 5:00pm

Langley Porter Psychiatric Institute

401 Parnassus Avenue Room 190

Sponsored by the UCSF Departments of Psychiatry and Pediatrics and Global Health Sciences. Click on links to see presentations.

Program

9—9:30	Registration and Light Breakfast
9:30—10	Opening remarks Craig Van Dyke, MD (UCSF) and Hiroshi Inomata, Consul General of Japan
10—10:30	Hiroshi Nimura, MD (Kudan Clinic) “Medical Casualties from Earthquake and Tsunami”
10:30—11	Mitsuyoshi Urashima, MD, PhD (Jikei University) “Radiation Contamination in Fukushima”
11—11:15	Break
11:15—11:45	Toshifumi Kishimoto, MD, PhD (Nara Medical University) “Experience of the Tsunami”
11:45—12:15	Hisako Watanabe, MD, PhD (Keio University School of Medicine) “The Manifold Impact of Radiation on Children and Families in Fukushima”
12:15—1:30	Lunch
1:30—1:50	Stephen Mahin, PhD (Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research Center) “Earthquake and Tsunami Mitigation in Japan”
1:50—2:10	Arrietta Chakos, MPA “Building Individual and Community Resilience”
2:10—2:30	Break
2:30—2:50	Mary Comerio, MSW, MA (UC Berkeley) “Post-Disaster Housing”
2:50—3:10	James Seward, MD, MPP, MMM (UCSF and UC Berkeley) “Radiation and Health”
3:10—3:30	John I. Takayama, MD, MPH (UCSF) “UCSF Response to the Earthquake and Related Disasters in Japan”
3:30—4:15	Panel Discussion
4:15—5	Reception