64rd Annual Meeting of The Japanese Respiratory Society (Respiratory Japan 2024)
When | Friday, April 5, 2024 - Sunday, April 7, 2024 |
Where | Yokohama Japan |
Category | Respiratory |
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About the event
The 64th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Respiratory Society will be a three-day conference from Friday, April 5 through Sunday, April 7, 2024 at Pacifico Yokohama North in Yokohama, Japan. It is a great honor to have been appointed to serve as president of the Japanese Respiratory Society with its distinguished history and tradition. This year will be the first time since the 37th Annual Meeting, which was presided over by my mentor Dr. Takao Okubo, that Yokohama City University has been involved in arranging the conference. Everyone in our department is hard at work preparing for this monumental event.
On May 8, 2023, the novel coronavirus was reclassified as a Class 5 infectious disease, marking a turning point that has helped people return to life as it used to be before the pandemic. The main theme of this Annual Meeting is "Pulmonology in the Post-COVID-19 Era: From Port City Yokohama to the World and the Future." This theme embodies our desire on the cusp of a new age to intensify our passion for scholarship, amass knowledge, and proclaim the latest evidence supporting this research from the international city of Yokohama to the world and the future. Rather than a virtual event, this year we are planning to hold the annual meeting face-to-face in Yokohama with the hope that this will spur lively discussion and the dynamic and stimulating exchange of information. We will also be furnishing video on demand of the programs in the interest of providing those society members for whom circumstances make it difficult to be present in Yokohama with an opportunity to learn and participate remotely.
Planning is underway to design programs applying some of the efforts that I have been involved in on the Society's International Relations Committee, Committee on Gender Equality, Planning Committee, and Education Committee. More specifically, my hope is to further globalization, provide a full lineup of lectures presented by experts from around the world to make this a truly international symposium, as well as facilitate exchange with ATS, ERS, and APSR. In addition, a symposium will be held on gender equality examining the topic of the "Women in Pulmonary Medicine - how to break the glass ceiling; what we can learn from China, US, and Japan" A young researcher symposium is also planned, which will be conducted by some of our younger physicians. Another highlight of this annual meeting will be "Koto-Hajime-Koshien (translation: National Tournament for Medical Students and Residents)" featuring medical students and first-year residents. Those students and residents who have demonstrated distinction at one of the society's regional branches (during the period from March to November 2023) will be invited to present their research in a friendly competition akin to a national tournament.
In addition, numerous programs are planned that will be of interest to our members. We are preparing a symposium for the President's Special Program on pulmonary regenerative medicine, a topic which has attracted great interest from just about everyone, where the cutting-edge of iPS-cell organ regeneration will be presented.
After the annual meeting, please be sure to sample the delicious cuisine of Yokohama and head out to do some sightseeing as well.
In closing, I hope everyone will apply to present on one or more topics, then make your way to Yokohama to participate in and enjoy this stimulating academic conference.
The 64th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Respiratory Society will be a three-day conference from Friday, April 5 through Sunday, April 7, 2024 at Pacifico Yokohama North in Yokohama, Japan. It is a great honor to have been appointed to serve as president of the Japanese Respiratory Society with its distinguished history and tradition. This year will be the first time since the 37th Annual Meeting, which was presided over by my mentor Dr. Takao Okubo, that Yokohama City University has been involved in arranging the conference. Everyone in our department is hard at work preparing for this monumental event.
On May 8, 2023, the novel coronavirus was reclassified as a Class 5 infectious disease, marking a turning point that has helped people return to life as it used to be before the pandemic. The main theme of this Annual Meeting is "Pulmonology in the Post-COVID-19 Era: From Port City Yokohama to the World and the Future." This theme embodies our desire on the cusp of a new age to intensify our passion for scholarship, amass knowledge, and proclaim the latest evidence supporting this research from the international city of Yokohama to the world and the future. Rather than a virtual event, this year we are planning to hold the annual meeting face-to-face in Yokohama with the hope that this will spur lively discussion and the dynamic and stimulating exchange of information. We will also be furnishing video on demand of the programs in the interest of providing those society members for whom circumstances make it difficult to be present in Yokohama with an opportunity to learn and participate remotely.
Planning is underway to design programs applying some of the efforts that I have been involved in on the Society's International Relations Committee, Committee on Gender Equality, Planning Committee, and Education Committee. More specifically, my hope is to further globalization, provide a full lineup of lectures presented by experts from around the world to make this a truly international symposium, as well as facilitate exchange with ATS, ERS, and APSR. In addition, a symposium will be held on gender equality examining the topic of the "Women in Pulmonary Medicine - how to break the glass ceiling; what we can learn from China, US, and Japan" A young researcher symposium is also planned, which will be conducted by some of our younger physicians. Another highlight of this annual meeting will be "Koto-Hajime-Koshien (translation: National Tournament for Medical Students and Residents)" featuring medical students and first-year residents. Those students and residents who have demonstrated distinction at one of the society's regional branches (during the period from March to November 2023) will be invited to present their research in a friendly competition akin to a national tournament.
In addition, numerous programs are planned that will be of interest to our members. We are preparing a symposium for the President's Special Program on pulmonary regenerative medicine, a topic which has attracted great interest from just about everyone, where the cutting-edge of iPS-cell organ regeneration will be presented.
After the annual meeting, please be sure to sample the delicious cuisine of Yokohama and head out to do some sightseeing as well.
In closing, I hope everyone will apply to present on one or more topics, then make your way to Yokohama to participate in and enjoy this stimulating academic conference.