Dr. Fumio Shaku Participates in Visiting Scholar Program

Dr. Fumio Shaku is a scholar in the Methods of Family Medicine Education Training Program, and has an appointment as Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Family Medicine. Dr. Shaku will be in the program from April 2008 to March 2009.

Dr. Shaku received his medical degree from Asahikawa Medical College in 1991 and graduated from Tokyo Medical and Dental Graduate School with a Ph.D. in 2005. He trained in psychosomatic and general internal medicine. He visited and observed the post-traumatic stress disorder program in the San Francisco Veterans Administration Medical Center in 2006 for three months. Dr. Shaku recently served as an attending physician at the Department of General Medicine at Nagoya University Hospital.

He is particularly interested in learning effective research methods in family medicine. Dr. Shaku would like to study the quality of life, life stresses and stress coping mechanisms among nurses in Japan and Japanese people who live in United States. He would like to participate in learning about how family medicine is practiced in the United States, including aspects of stress and terminal care.

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