Visiting Scholar to Speak

Dr. Naoki Ikegami gave a presentation on Tuesday, March 25th, in the President's Room at Columbia University's Faculty House as part of CUSSW's 2003 Millennium Distinguished Visiting Scholars Program.

Dr. Ikegami is Professor and Chair of the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Keio School of Medicine, Tokyo, where he received his MD (1975) and PhD (1981) with residencies in neuropsychiatry and alcoholism. He also holds a Master of Arts degree with Distinction in health services studies from Leeds University (1984). During 1990-1991 he was a visiting professor at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School and Medical School, where he continues to lecture on comparative health care systems as an Adjunct Senior Fellow at Wharton's Leonard Davis Institute.

Dr. Ikegami is a board member of interRAI, an international non-profit consortium of researchers and clinicians which seeks to improve care of the elderly by promoting development and adoption of standardized assessment methods. He is also on the boards of Priorities in Health Care and the Japanese Society of Hospital Administration. He has served as consultant to the World Health Organization and the World Bank, and has sat on various national and state government committees. He is Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Hospital Administration (the official journal of the Japanese Society of Hospital Administration), and sits on the editorial boards of the International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care (Cambridge University Press), the Journal of Mental Health Policy and Economics, the International Journal of Health Care Finance and Economics, and Value in Health.

Dr. Ikegami's research areas include health policy, long-term care, and pharmaco-economics. Recent examples among his prolific publications include The Art of Balance in Health Policy: Maintaining Japan's Low-Cost Egalitarian System (Cambridge University Press, 1998), co-authored with John C. Campbell; Containing Health Care Costs in Japan (Michigan, 1996) and Long-Term Care for Frail Older People: Reaching for the Ideal System (Springer Verlag, 1999), both co-edited with Campbell; Quality of Life Evaluation Handbook for Clinicians (Igakushoin, 2nd ed., 2002, in Japanese), with Shunichi Fukuhara et al.; and “Measuring the quality of long-term care in institutional and community settings," in Measuring Up: Improving Health Care Performance in OECD Countries (OECD, 2002), with John Hirdes and Iain Carpenter.