Social Medicine

Molecular Preventive Medicine ——————————————————————————————————
http://www.prevent.m.u-tokyo.ac.jp/

Chemokines play critical roles in the pathogenesis of diseases including acute inflammtaion,
autoimmune diseases, allergic diseases, HIV infection, atherosclerosis and tumor metastasis
through the regulation of chemotaxis, activation and differentiation. We hope chemokine research
will contribute to Molecular PreventiveMedicine.

• Pathogenesis of diseases by chemokine• Autoimmune diseases, liver injury, GVHD
• Atopic dermatitis, bronchial asthma• Activation of the chemokine receptor and its signaltransduction• Serial analysis of gene expression (SAGE) for hematopoietic cells• Development of vaccinations to cancers and infectious
diseases

Public Health ————————————————————————————————————————————————
http://publichealth.m.u-tokyo.ac.jp/

Public health is the science and art of preventing disease, prolonging life, and promoting health andquality of life (QOL) through organized community effort. Through studies in various fields andlaboratories, our department aims to advanceresearch, support policy development, and promote education toward these ends.

• Efficiency and equity issues of health services• Health manpower policy• Occupational and environmental health• Policy analysis on health and environmental issues• Clinical epidemiology (QOL, outcome studies, economicevaluation)

Physician distribution by municipality in Japan28

Forensic Medicine ————————————————————————————————————————————
http://plaza.umin.ac.jp/~forensic/

We determine the cause of death in unnatural deaths through autopsy and various examinations.
We also study on legal-social systems related to death investigation, patient safety, and court. To
improve death investigation and related systems, we conducted variety of researches including cardiovascular basic sciences, legal-social medicine, toxicology,
DNA polymorphism, and forensic pathology.

• Involvement of Gap Junction in myocardial injury in ischemic heartdisease and arrhythmogenesis in restraint• Arrhythmogenesis and contractile dysfunction in pressure overload• Legal-social systems related to death investigation, patient safely, andcourt• Improvement of toxicological and DNA examinations• Forensic pathology

Forensic autopsy room

Medical Informatics and Economics ———————————————————————————————
http://www.m.u-tokyo.ac.jp/medinfo/index_e.html

The role of research and education of this department is provided as the department of the graduate school, and the role of practical management is conducted as the Department of Planning,Information and Management in the University of Tokyo Hospital. All teaching staffs are in chargeof both the two roles and the department of health informatics
of school of public health. The research and postgraduate education programs cover basic medical informatics, advance applications of information technology for clinical practice, technology assessment and standardization of healthcare information.

• Development and application of clinical ontology• Research for sharing healthcare data among medical institutions and hospitals, and the application for clinical epidemiology• Extraction of medical knowledge from electronic medical record databaseusing natural language processing• Development of knowledge-driven real time alerting system in clinicalpractice• Evaluation study of hospital management and analysis of medical
resource placement

Computer room of the hospital computer center29