Assistant Professor Kensuke Takahashi

Speciality / Research theme / Keywords

Infectious Disease, Clinical medicine, Humanitarian supports, Emergency medicine, General physician

Supervision

Masters ProgrammeDoctoral Programme

Qualifications

Medical Doctor, Ph.D., Fellowship of Japanese Society of Internal Medicine General Physician, Certificated Specialist of Infectious Diseases – The Japanese Association of Infectious Diseases

Personal/work Web page addresses

http://www.mh.nagasaki-u.ac.jp/emc/emir/initiatives/
https://www.msf.or.jp/team_msf/expats/interview/04.html

Affiliation(s)

Assistant Professor, Acute & Critical Care Unit, Nagasaki University Hospital
Medical Doctor, Nagasaki Harbor Medical Center
Board, Médecins Sans Frontières Japan

Background

2006 Medical School of Hirosaki University
2014 Médecins Sans Frontières (Ethiopia)
2015 Ph.D., Graduate school of Biomedical sciences, Nagasaki University
2015 – present Assistant professor, Nagasaki University
2021 – present Faculty staff, School of TMGH, Nagasaki University

Teaching

Travel medicine, Case conference of Tropical Diseases

Research

Respiratory diseases in Vietnam, Congenital Rubella Syndrome, Clinical management of COVID-19

The country/countries where you work currently

Philippine

Five MOST IMPORTANT/INTERESTING recent publications

1. Domai FM, Agrupis KA, Han SM, Sayo AR, Ramirez JS, Nepomuceno R, Suzuki S, Villanueva AMG, Salva EP, Villarama JB, Ariyoshi K, Mulholland K, Palla L, Takahashi K, Smith C, Miranda E.　Measles outbreak in the Philippines: epidemiological and clinical characteristics of hospitalized children, 2016-2019. The Lancet Regional Health – Western Pacific. 2021; 19:100334.
2. Yanes RR, Malijan GMB, Escora-Garcia LK, Ricafrente SAM, Salazar MJ, Suzuki S, Smith C, Ariyoshi K, Solante RM, Edrada EM, Takahashi K. Detection of SARS-CoV-2 and HHV-8 from a large pericardial effusion in an HIV-positive patient with COVID-19 and clinically diagnosed Kaposi sarcoma: a case report. Tropical Medicine and Health. 2022; 50(1):72.
3. Putong N, Agrupis KA, Villanueva AM, Suzuki S, Sayo AR, Dimaano E, de Guzman F, Teaño R, Salazar MJ, Evangelista JW, Dimapilis A, Villarama JB, Ariyoshi K, Takahashi K, Smith C. A call to protect non-clinical frontliners in the fight against COVID-19: evidence from a seroprevalence study in the Philippines. The Lancet Regional Health – Western Pacific. 2022; 18:100353.
4. Miyakawa M, Yoshida LM, Nguyen HT, Takahashi K, Le TH, Yasunami M, Ariyoshi K, Dang DA, Moriuchi H. Hepatitis B virus infection among pregnant mothers and children after the introduction of the universal vaccination program in Central Vietnam. Scientific Reports. 2021 Apr 21; 11(1):8676.
5. Haidar MK, Vogt F, Takahashi K, Henaff F, Umphrey L, Morton N, Bawo L, Kerkula J, Ferner R, Porten K, Baud FJ. Suspected paracetamol overdose in Monrovia, Liberia: a matched case-control study. BMC Pediatr. 2020; 20(1):139.

Message

I’m keen in fusion of the clinical medicine and the research, as well as removing the border between domestic and global health. Now I’m straggling with “Evaluation of medical quality in humanitarian activities”.