Symposium
Inheritance of the Experiences of Medical Care for the Radiation‒
Exposed and International Contribution【Chair】Takafumi Tsuya
Executive Director, Hiroshima Prefectural Medical Association
M.D., Ph.D., Hiroshima University Graduate School of Medicine, 1988

Assistant, Hiroshima University School of Medicine, then lecturer appointed by the Ministry of Education
at Hiroshima Univ., 1989-1992. Director, department of pulmonology, Chugoku Rosai hospital, 1993-2000,
Reseacher, Karolinska Institute, Sweden,1996, Tsuya Clinic, since 2000, Executive Director, Hiroshima
Prefectural Medical Association, since 2014.

【Symposiast】Kazunori Kodama
Chief Scientist of Radiation Eﬀects Research Foundation
M.D., Ph.D., Hiroshima University School of Medicine, 1983

Dr. Kodama graduated from the Hiroshima University School of Medicine in 1972 and received training at St.
Raphael Hospital, aﬃliated with Yale University for ﬁve years. He is currently Chief Scientist at the Radiation
Eﬀects Research Foundation（RERF）. He served as Chief of the Department of Clinical Studies from 1989 to1999 and Chief of the Department of Epidemiology from 2002 to 2007 at RERF. He also was appointed asProfessor of the Department of Health Sciences at the Hiroshima University Faculty of Medicine from 1999to 2002. He is former President of the Japan Epidemiological Association, and Fellow of the Faculty of Public
Health Medicine of the Royal College of Physicians of the UK and the American College of Cardiology. He
was the recipient of an award presented by the Japan Heart Foundation for the Prevention of Cardiovascular
Disease in 1992 and 2012. He also received distinguished service awards from the Japanese Society ofPreventive Cardiology in 2006 and from the Japan Epidemiological Association in 2011.

【Symposiast】Christopher H. Clement
Scientiﬁc Secretary of International Commission on Radiological Protection
McMaster University（Hamilton, Canada）with a Master of Science degree in health physics

Mr Clement's career began with more than a decade working for the Canadian government in low-level waste
management and environmental restoration. He then worked for the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission forabout a decade, in uranium mine decommissioning , radiological counter-terrorism, and ultimately as Director ofRadiation Protection. The latter included duties as the Canadian representative to the International Atomic
Energy Agency's Radiation Safety Standards Committee, and the OECD Nuclear Energy Agency 's Committeeon Radiation Protection and Public Health. Since 2008 he has been the Scientiﬁc Secretary of the InternationalCommission on Radiological Protection（ICRP）, and since 2012 he has also been a member of the International
Radiation Protection Association Executive Council.

【Symposiast】Kenji Kamiya
Vice President of Hiroshima University
M.D., Ph.D., Hiroshima University School of Medicine,1986

He joined the Research Institute for Radiation Biology and Medicine of Hiroshima Univ. in 1987 andbecame a professor in 1996. He served as the director of institute for two terms, 2001-2005 and 2009-2013.
Also, he has served the director of Radiation Emergency Medicine Promotion Center since 2004. After thenuclear accident in Fukushima, he became a vice-president of Fukushima Medical Univ. in 2011 and theone of Hiroshima Univ. in 2013. He was awarded a prize for his contributions to disaster prevention by
the Prime Minister, Cabinet Oﬃce in 2012. He is currently serving as an adviser for Cabinet Secretariat
Government of Japan, the chairman of Japan Radiation Council. His research ﬁelds are radiation biology,radiation carcinogenesis and radiation emergency medicine. He is a council member at Science Council ofJapan. In 2015, he served as Secretary-General for the ICRR2015 in Kyoto.

【Symposiast】Masahiro KenjoVice Director, Hiroshima High-Precision Radiotherapy Cancer Center
M.D., Ph.D., Hiroshima University School of Medicine, 1993

Research associate Hiroshima University School of Medicine since 1998. Vice director of Hiroshima
High-Precision Radiotherapy Cancer Center, since 2015. Radiation Oncologist

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