Dr. Hiroshi Igarashi Participates in Visiting Scholar Program

Dr. Hiroshi Igarashi joined the Department of Family Medicine with an appointment of Visiting Assistant Professor as a scholar in the Methods of Family Medicine Training Program on April 4, 2007. Dr. Igarashi will be working in the Department from April 2007 to March 2008. Dr. Igarashi received his medical degree from Tohoku University School of Medicine and recently completed a postgraduate residency program at Seirei Mikatahara General Hospital in Shizuoka. While a medical student, Dr. Igarashi spent three months working in basic research at Stanford University. Following medical school, Dr. Igarashi participated in a short-term family medicine educational program at the University of Michigan.

Dr. Igarashi is particularly interested in family medicine training in postgraduate education, faculty development and research. His goal is to participate in a family medicine residency in the United States and then to engage in family medicine training in Japan.

For more information about the Methods of Family Medicine Training Program, please contact:

Rebecca Malouin, Ph.D., M.P.H.
Coordinator, Methods of Family Medicine Education Training Program
Assistant Professor, Department of Family Medicine, College of Human Medicine
Michigan State University, B118 Clinical Center
East Lansing, Michigan 48824-1315,U.S.A.

Phone: (517) 353-0772 x 453
Fax: (517) 355-7700
email: rebecca.malouin@ht.msu.edu