Sunday, June 5, 2011

Dr. SHIGEAKI HINOHARA (日野原 重明) (Some info of Dr. SHIGEAKI HINOHARA)

Info source: http://www.t-i-forum.co.jp/english/magazine/ffe/vol29fp.html (Created 2002?)


Dr. SHIGEAKI HINOHARA (日野原 重明)
President and Honorary Director of St. Luke's International Hospital

Shigeaki HinoharaBorn in Yamagata Prefecture in 1911.

His father was a pastor. Graduated from the Medical School of Kyoto Imperial University, gaining a doctorate in internal medicine from the Graduate School of the same university. In 1941, he joined the staff of St. Luke's International Hospital.

For 1 year from 1951, he studied at Emory University in Georgia, USA. After returning to Japan, he was promoted to Director of Internal Medicine and Deputy Director of the Hospital before being appointed President of St. Luke's College of Nursing from 1974 to 1998.

Currently serves as President of St. Luke's Institute of Nursing, Honorary Rector of St. Luke's College of Nursing, and President and Honorary Director of St. Luke's International Hospital.Dr. Hinohara is a specialist in heart disease. After touring hospices in Europe and America, he formed the "Clinical Research Group on Mortality".

Known as a pioneer of the "human dock", his pet theory is "patient-participation medicine", in which medicine is not merely left to the doctors.

In 1973, he set up the "Life Planning Center" under the motto of "lifelong health", and was appointed its President.

In 2000 he adapted the best-selling picture book "Happa no Freddy" (Freddy the Leaf) as a stage musical, and is active in a wide variety of other fields. His many publications include "Ikikata Jozu" (Good At Living) and "Ongaku no Iyashi no Chikara" (The Healing Power of Music).

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