Teaching Staff

Graduate School

President

Masaharu Yamamoto / Professor / M. D., M. P. H., Ph. D.
Preventive Medicine and Public Health

Dean

Nobuko Murayama / Professor / Ph.D.
Health Promotion, Public Nutrition, International Nutrition, Nutrition Ecology
Development and evaluation of nutrition education and food/nutrition environment intervention programs to improve nutritional/health status in the community, work sites and schools.
Study of the effects of changes in food/nutrition environments on the nutritional/health status in developing countries.

Master's Program

Common courses

Hideaki E. Takahashi / Professor / M. D., Ph. D.
Bone and Mineral Research, Bone Morphometry, QOL assessment on osteoporosis and bone and joint diseases, Development and evaluation of Inter-professional education.

Masahiro Ito / Professor
Clinical Psychology, Psychodrama (role-playing), Psychological support in Health and Welfare and Mental Health of Public servants.

Yoshihiro Watanabe / Associate Professor / M. D.
Clinical Psychiatry, Psychosomatic Medicine , Psycho-Oncology and Palliative Medicine, Psychopathology of Expression,Suicide Research in Legal Medicine.

Department of Rehabilitation Sciences

Chair, Department of Rehabilitation Sciences
Mineo Oyama / Professor / Ph. D.
EMG analysis in neuromuscular function of the hand
Brain research using somatosensory evoked magnetic fields

Field of Physical Therapy

Chair, Field of Physical Therapy
Ryosaku Kobayashi / Professor / Ph. D.
Fall Prevention in the Elderly at Home. Management of Neuromuscular Disorders in Physical Therapy.

Hideaki Onishi / Professor / Ph. D.

Cortical neuromagnetic activation accompanying voluntary movements -MEG study-.
Human motor cortex oxtgenation during exercise -NIRS study-.
EMG and motion analysis of human lower & upper extremities.

Masayoshi Kubo / Professor /Sc. D.
Motor learning, Pathokinesiology, Research Methods
Understanding of human movement control / learning using biomechanical methods.
Time series analysis of standing balance.
Kinematic analysis of knee in motion using the point cluster method.

Rieko Oshiki / Professor / Ph. D.
The clinical study of handicapped children's developmental disorders. The epidemiological study of post-polio syndrome. The pre-clinical educational methodology of physical therapy.

Hiroyuki Tamaki / Professor / Ph. D.

Regulation of bone remodeling by the central and peripheral nervous system.
Musculoskeletal and neural interactions altered by exercise training.
Functional significance of physiological tremor enhanced by muscle fatigue.

Kazuhiro Terajima / Assosiate Professor / Ph. D.
Biomechanics, Rehabilitation Engineering, Three dimensional analysis of lower leg alignment. Three dimensional motion analysis of the knee joint.

Isamu Konishi / Associate Professor /Ph. D.
Physical therapy program through home visits for community-dwelling elderly women with mild knee pain.

Toshio Soma / Associate Professor / Ph. D.
Electromyographic and kinetic analysis of human movement using ambulatory aids.
Magnetoencephalographic analysis of somatosensory evoked magnetic fields following synchronized stimulation of the median and ulnar nerve.

Naritoshi Sato / Associate Professor / Ph. D.
Research of back pain, Age-related changes in spinal alignment , Relationship between low back pain and spinal alignment

Ryo Suzuki / Lecturer / Ph. D.
Macroscopic Anatomy, Human Morphogenesis, Biomedical engineering, Morphogenetic research of headneck boundary regions
Morphogenetic research of variations of muscles in superior limb regions

Atsuhiro Tsubaki / Lecturer / Ph. D.
Age-related changes in physical functions
Cardiovascular, pulmonary, and metabolic physical therapy.
Cardiovascular response to exercise.

Field of Occupational Therapy

Chair, Field of Occupational Therapy
Mineo Oyama / Professor / Ph. D.
EMG analysis in neuromuscular function of the hand
Brain research using somatosensory evoked magnetic fields

Shinichi Noto / Professor / Ph. D.
Neuropsychology, Clinical economics
Intervention for unilateral spatial neglect and apraxia, Assessment of utilities used by the Health Utilities Index, Cost-effectiveness analysis of rehabilitation

Yoichi Nagai / Associate Professor / M. Sc.
Areas of Interest: Occupational Therapy for Handicapped Children, Effects of Sensory Integration Therapy, Occupational Science. Research: Therapy Effects on Sensory Modulation Disorders in Adults, Re-standardization of Pediatric Interest Profiles in Japan, Assessment of the Outcome of Inter-Professional Education.

Rika Imanishi / Associate Professor / Ph. D.
Lower urinary tract rehabilitation for urinary storage symptoms in the elderly
Development of assessment methods for lower urinary tract dysfunction in the elderly

Hikari Kirimoto / Associate Professor / Ph. D.
Non-invasive studies of sensorimotor integration in humans
The behavior of the central nerve system, anterior horn and muscles during sustained static contraction

Tomonori Nomura / Lecturer / Ph. D.
Study of the recovery of activities in the frail elderly.

Makoto Suzuki / Lecturer / Ph. D.

Cortical voluntary activation of the knee extensors in patients with Alzheimer's disease
Reciprocal change of motor evoked potential with motor learning in humans

Field of Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences

Chair, Field of Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences
Masayo Kasuya / Professor / Ph. D.
Clinical studies of Cleft Palate Speech

Toru Imamura / Professor / Ph. D.
Behavioral Neurology, Clinical Neuropsychology, Exacutive dysfunction in dementia, Diagnosis and management of dementia with Lewy bodies.

Masaki Nishio / Associate Professor / Ph. D.
Development of effective techniques relating to dysarthria and dysphagia

Nobuyuki Imai / Associate Professor / Ph. D.
The analysis of the mechanism in mastication and swallowing.
The development of the new treatment and rehabilitation for dysphagia.
The relationship of oral health care and oral function.
The relationship of oral function and sysytemic function.

Masumi Watanabe / Associate Professor / Ph. D.
Sentence Production in Aphasic Patients and SLI (Specific Language Impairment) Children; Grammatical and Semantic Processes in Sentence Production.

Yutaka Yoshioka / Associate Professor / M. Ed.
Language Acquisition in Children, Language acquisition process in SLI, Relationships among auditory function tests

Tomiichi Yamaguchi / Associate Professor / M. Ed.
Audiology

Field of Prosthetics & Orthotics and Assistive Technology

Chair, Field of Prosthetics & Orthotics and Assistive Technology
Yoshihiro Ehara / Professor / Ph. D.
Biomechanics, Motion Analysis, Gait Analysis, Muscular-Skeltal Symulation, Mecanical Energy Calculation, Human Body Balance Analysis, Sports Biomechanics, Prosthetic and Orthotic Gait Analysis, Shoes Analysis, Motion Capture

Akira Magara / Professor / M. D., Ph. D.
Collaborative Science in Health and Welfare, Rehabilitation for Spinal Cord Injury , Database for Spinal Cord Injury, Complication of Spinal Cord Injury, Rehabilitation for Cerebral Vascular Accident, Inter professional Education (IPE), Virtual Case Module Database for IPE.

Yukio Agarie / Professor / M. E.
Study to identify lower limp prosthetic socket fitting conditions with the use of kinesthetic sensors (three dimensional forces).
Study related to Prosthetic & Orthotic fitting.

Kaoru Abe / Professor / Ph. D.
Practice of Shoes Human Science, Shoes Adjustment Science, Development and evaluation of functional arch support (shoe insole) and footwear , Lower extremities orthosis for hemiplegia, Foot pressure (F-scan) analysis.

Kazuhiro Sakai / Associate Professor / M. Sc.
Introduction to Core Skills, Upper-Limb Orthotics, Lower-Limb Orthotics, Spinal Orthotics, Introduction to Assistive Devices, Assessment Practice of Disabilities and its Prosthetic/Orthotic Prescriptions
Man-Assistive Device Matching, International Cooperation Methodology in terms of Prosthetics and Orthotics, Educational Methodology in P&O education.

Keiichi Tsukishiro / Associate Professor / M. E.
Meterials, Transfemoral Prostheses, Upper limb prostheses, Knee joints for transfemoral prostheses

Department of Social Welfare

Chair, Department of Social Welfare
Tamotsu Toyoda / Professor / M. Ed., M. Soc.
Major fields: Community Based Welfare , Research: Significance of independent welfare action by community people

Field of Policies Planning and Administration for Social Welfare

Chair, Field of Policies Planning and Administration for Social Welfare
Tamotsu Toyoda / Professor / M. Ed. M. Soc.
Major fields: Community Based Welfare , Research subject in recently : Significance of independent welfare action by community people

Akio Maruta / Professor / Master of Regional Policy
Study ofregional welfare policies, school social work, and comprehensive living support in regional welfare policies

Emiko Hoshino / Associate Professor / Ph. D.
Independence working support of disabled persons
Support of a handicapped disabled person
Employment status of physically disabled persons in relation to geodemographic characteristics of their living districts in a Japanese city
Model teaching materials making in Inter-professional Education
Geodemographic analysis to a health welfare domain

Shigeki Matsuyama / Associate Professor

Kimiyo Terada / Associate Professor / Ph. D.
Major Fields: International Social Work, Welfare Sociology, Child Welfare and Family Services

Toshifumi Watanabe / Lecturer / Ph. D.
Social Work, Community Based Welfare

Miku Suzuki / Lecturer / Ph. D.
Study of Social Research, Family Sociology, China Study, Comparative Study of Social Security

Field of Management for Social Welfare

Chair, Field of Management for Social Welfare
Kiyohiko Katahira / Professor / Ph. D.
Victimology in Social Welfare; Preventive social welfare. [1] Research on support for drug-induced victims as well as the eradication of drug-induced suffering. [2] Research on the actual condition of IBD (Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis) patients and causal factors on IBD, especially its relations to n-6/n-3 nutritional balance.

Yoshio Yonebayashi / Professor / M. Soc.
Medical and Social Issues in the Field of Health and Welfare Services
Health and Medical Sociology
Comparing Oral Health Care Systems

Toyoharu Yokoyama / Associate Professor / Ph. D.
Social Work. Study of social work education. Study of the lifelong training of social workers.
Study of the formative processes of social workers.
Study of the clarification of the social worker image.

Seio Kouno / Associate Professor / M. S. W.
Social Work, Social work practice, Social work relationship, Supervision of social work, Communication skills in social work, "The sharing of information in the practice of a care managers: Attitude and System" 2009.3.

Ayumi Kondo / Associate Professor / Ph. D.
Area of specialization: Mental Health
Research themes: Prognosis of drug dependent persons in rehabilitation centers, developing relapse prevention programs for substance abusers, family intervention in substance abuse.

Kyosuke Matsumoto / Lecturer / Ph. D.
Principle of Clinical Psychology, Clinical Psychology

Department of Health Sciences

Chair, Department of Health Sciences
Kentaro Kawanaka / Associate Professor / Ph. D.
Exercise Physiology and Biochemistry. The effects of exercise, inactivity and nutrition on skeletal muscle glucose metabolism.

Field of Health and Nutrition

Chair, Field of Health and Nutrition
Kentaro Kawanaka / Associate Professor / Ph. D.
Exercise Physiology and Biochemistry. The effects of exercise, inactivity and nutrition on skeletal muscle glucose metabolism.

Toshiko Saito / Professor / Ph. D.
Health and Nutrition
Study on the prevention of osteoporosis in elderly population.
Study on nutritional education for children.

Nobuko Murayama / Professor / Ph. D.
Health Promotion, Public Nutrition, International Nutrition, Nutrition Ecology
Development and evaluation of nutrition education and food/nutrition environment intervention programs to improve the nutritional/health status in the community, work sites and schools.
Study on the effects of the changes of food/nutrition environments on the nutritional/health status in developing countries.

Naoko Ito / Professor / Ph. D.
Health and Nutrition, Food function and cookery science practice
Chemical and physical change in various foods during low temperature steam cooking

Kazuo Endoh / Professor / Doctor of Medical Science

Epidemiology on Gallbladder and Bile Duct Cancer
Application of Statistical Methods in the Medical Field
Evaluation of the Effectiveness of Health Learning

Eikichi Watanabe / Associate Professor
Clinical Dietetics and Clinical Nutrition Management
Attack and prevention methods for metabolic syndromes and chronic kidney diseases

Noriko Tsukahara / Associate Professor / Ph. D.
Study of the relationship between lifestyle-related diseases, nutrition and dietary habits, and preventing lifestyle-related diseases and health promotion from the viewpoint of bone metabolism.

Hajime Iwamori / Lecturer / M. Sc.
Cookery, Food Preparation, Experimental Cookery
Meal evaluation of the elderly according to digestion capabilities

Takako Yamazaki / Lecturer / Ph. D.
Food Science. Tenderizing Meat through Low Temperature Steam Cooking. Changes in Food Ingredients and Tastes after Cooking.

Field of Health and Sports

Chair, Field of Health and Sports
Atsuo Maruyama / Professor / Ph. D.
My research involves clarifying various processes to acquire motor skills for high performance in sports and general movement, and to reflect the viewpoints of brain science in the coaching theory of sports and physical education. A recent study investigated the effects of motor learning and muscle fatigue on the excitabilities of motor and sense cortexes and the premotor-motor connections with the use of TMS.

Tomoji Ishikawa / Professor / M. D.
Orthopaedics, Sports Medicine, Swimmer's shoulder, Pitching injury

Yasuyuki Nishihara / Professor / Ph. D.
Embodied Knowledge, Human Resource Management
What does "the ability of sport management professionals" mean?
What is the ability of a PE teacher? What is the ability of an athlete? What abilities should a head coach have?
Proximity Domain: Cognitive Science, Embodied Knowledge, Training for Meister

Toshiro Sato / Associate Professor / Ph. D.
Health Science, Quantification of relationships between health status and physical fitness in middle-aged and elderly males and females, Equations to discriminate health status based on results of physical fitness tests

Seiya Masegi / Associate Professor / Master of Health and Sports Sciences
Conditioning in competitive sports and athletic training

Yoshimitsu Shimoyama / Associate Professor / Ph. D.
Major : Coaching of Swimming
Theme of recent research: The methods of evaluating swimming performance

Satoshi Hanawa / Lecturer / M. A.
Methods to improve the children's ability to throw
The influence walking exerts on lifestyles and physical tests
The relationships between competent ability of movement and the degree of likes and dislikes in physical education classes.

Fumie Yamazaki / Associate Professor / Ph. D.
Sport Psychology, Athletic Sport Psychology, Educational Counseling, Helping athletes with psychological problems.
Sports Counseling and Mental Training. Examining the peculiarities of athletes related to eating disorders and body images.

Koshu Sugisaki / Lecturer / Ph.D.
Dr.Sugisaki is working on the research of health instructions in cooperation with the schoolteachers. His primary interests focus on development of health teaching materials, methods, and evaluations.

Daisuke Sato / Lecturer / Ph.D.
Does the water immersion affect the central nerve system in human?
Major: Exercise physiology, Neurophysiology

Field of Nursing

Chair, Field of Nursing
Yasuko Tsukamoto / Professor / Ph. D.
Midwifery and Women's Health. Study of decision-making in the medical care. Study of health support programs.

Chiyoko Honma / Professor / M. Soc.
Present subject of research. The factors involved in nurses spontaneously quitting their jobs. The focus is applied to the education of head nurses, which is studied accordingly. The development of head nurse educational models.

Keiko Shintani / Professor / Ph. D.
Chronic Illness and Condition Nursing. Effects of programmed exercise loads using a sphygmomanometer on the growth of arteriovenous fistula for hemodialysis, Hemodialysis Patients' Self-Care Measurement Scale An Evaluation of Reliability and Validity, Self-care among Nursing Students Determining Constructive Concepts of Self-care using Factor Analysis
Support Methods for Internal Shunt in Patients with Kidney Dysfunction.
Self-Management Awareness in Patients on Maintenance Dialysis.

Mitsuko Kanaya / Professor / M. A.
Psychiatric Nursing, Child Abuse, Inter-professional Education

Kazumi Nakayama / Professor / Ph. D.
Maternity Nursing, Midwifery

Sumi Misawa / Associate Professor / Master of Nursing
Child Care Support, Support for women who are victims of domestic violence.

Noriko Mochizuki / Associte Professor / Ph. D.
Gerontological Nursing, Effects of family support programs for adult day service staff on the families of people with dementia.

Yayoi Kurihara / Associate Professor / M. S
Palliative care Nursing and Support of a Cancer Survivor.
Cancer Nursing. Clitical care nursing.

Doctoral Program

Department of Health and Welfare

Chair, Department of Health and Welfare
Nobuko Murayama / Professor / Ph. D.
Health Promotion, Public Nutrition, International Nutrition, Nutrition Ecology
Development and evaluation of nutrition education and food/nutrition environment intervention programs to improve the nutritional/health status in the community, work sites and schools.
Study on the effects of the changes of food/nutrition environments on the nutritional/health status in developing countries.

Vice Chair, Department of Health and Welfare

Mineo Oyama / Professor / Ph. D.
EMG analysis in neuromuscular function of the hand
Brain research using somatosensory evoked magnetic fields

Masaharu Yamamoto / Professor / M. D., M. P. H., Ph. D.
Preventive Medicine and Public Health

Yoshihiro Ehara / Professor / Ph. D.
Biomechanics, Motion Analysis, Gait Analysis, Muscular-Skeltal Symulation, Mecanical Energy Calculation, Human Body Balance Analysis, Sports Biomechanics, Prosthetic and Orthotic Gait Analysis, Shoes Analysis, Motion Capture

Hideaki Onishi / Professor / Ph. D.

Cortical neuromagnetic activation accompanying voluntary movements -MEG study-.
Human motor cortex oxtgenation during exercise -NIRS study-.
EMG and motion analysis of human lower & upper extremities.

Ryosaku Kobayashi / Professor / Ph. D.
Fall Prevention in Elderly at Home. Management of Neuromuscular Disorders in Physical Therapy.

Hiroyuki Tamaki / Professor / Ph. D.

Regulation of bone remodeling by the central and peripheral nervous system.
Musculoskeletal and neural interactions altered by exercise training.
Functional significance of physiological tremors enhanced by muscle fatigue.

Shinichi Noto / Professor / Ph. D.
Neuropsychology, Clinical Economics
Intervention for Unilateral Spatial Neglect and Apraxia, Assessment of utilities used by Health Utilities Index, Cost-effectiveness analysis of rehabilitation

Kaoru Abe / Professor / Ph. D.
Practice of Shoes Human Science, Shoes adjustment science, Development and evaluation of functional arch support (shoe insole) and footwear, Lower extremities orthosis for hemiplegia, Foot pressure (F-scan) analysis.

Masayo Kasuya / Professor / Ph. D.
Clinical studies of Cleft Palate Speech

Toru Imamura / Professor / Ph. D.
Behavioral Neurology, Clinical Neuropsychology, Exacutive Dysfunction in Dementia, Diagnosis and management of dementia with Lewy bodies.

Masaki Nishio / Associate Professor / Ph. D.
Development of effective technique related to dysarthria and dysphagia

Masumi Watanabe / Associate Professor / Ph. D.
Sentence Production in Aphasic Patients and SLI (Specific Language Impairment) Children; Grammatical and Semantic Processes in Sentence Production.

Yutaka Yoshioka / Associate Professor / M. Ed.
Language Acquisition in Children, Language acquisition process in SLI, Relationships among auditory function tests

Atsuo Maruyama / Professor / Ph. D.
My research involves clarifying various processes relating to motor skills for high performance in sports and general movement, and to reflect the viewpoints of brain science in the coaching theory of sports and physical education. A recent study investigated the effects of motor learning and muscle fatigue on excitabilities of motor and sense cortexes and premotor-motor connections with the use of TMS.

Tomoji Ishikawa / Professor / M. D.
Orthopaedics, Sports Medicine, Swimmer's shoulder, Pitching injury

Yasuyuki Nishihara / Professor / Ph. D.
Embodied Knowledge, Human Resource Management.
What does "the abilities of sport management professionals" mean?
What is the ability of a PE teacher? What is the ability of an athlete? What abilities should a head coach have?
Proximity domain: Cognitive Science, Embodied Knowledge, Training for Meister

Kiyohiko Katahira / Professor / Ph. D.
Victimology in Social Welfare; Preventive Social Welfare. 1) Research on support for drug-induced victims as well as the eradication of drug-induced suffering. 2) Research on the actual condition of IBD (Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis) patients and causal factors on IBD, especially its relations to n-6/n-3 nutritional balance.

Takashi Ito / Professor / M. D. Ph. D.
Public Health, Health Policy: International Health Development, Human Resource Development on Health Sector.

Yasuko Tsukamoto / Professor / Ph. D.
Midwifery and Women's Health. Study of decision-making in the medical care. Study of health support programs.

Kentaro Kawanaka / Associate Professor / Ph. D.
Exercise Physiology and Biochemistry. The effects of exercise, inactivity, and nutrition on skeletal muscle glucose metabolism.

Yoshimitsu Shimoyama / Associate Professor / Ph. D.
Major : Coaching of Swimming
Theme of recent research: The methods of evaluating swimming performance