U.S.-Japan Nutrition and Metabolism Panel
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Background
In 1965, U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson and Japanese Prime Minister Eisaku Sato issued a joint communiqué recognizing their mutual concern for the health and well being of all the peoples of Asia. This effort led to the formation of the U.S.-Japan Cooperative Medical Science Program, which operates within a bilateral government framework. A Malnutrition Panel was established in 1966 to foster and support investigator-initiated research to help alleviate the serious problem of malnutrition. In 1997 the name of that panel was changed to the U.S.-Japan Nutrition and Metabolism Panel to better reflect its current emphases. The increasing westernization of the Japanese diet and the increasing affluence among the Japanese people may play a role in the changes seen in nutritional status and incidence of nutrition-related diseases in that country. Thus, current topics of importance to both the U.S. and Japan focus on consequences of changing dietary patterns on health, development of diseases, and disease prevention. Specific research areas addressing these topics include obesity, diabetes, and related metabolic disorders (including dyslipidemias and atherosclerosis); metabolic bone disease; nutrition and host defenses; and improved methodologies applicable to nutritional assessment, especially as it may relate to the other topics mentioned.
Roster
U.S. Panel Members Alan Chait, M.D. Chairman Professor, Dept of Medicine University of Washington Div. of Metabolism, Endocrinology and Nutrition RG-26 Seattle, Washington 98195 Phone: (206) 543-3158 FAX: (206) 685-8346 Email: Dr. Chait Barbara C. Hansen, Ph.D. Professor of Physiology Obesity and Metabolism Laboratory University of Maryland School of Medicine MSTF Building, Room 600 Baltimore, MD 21201 Phone: (410) 706-3168 Fax: (410) 706-7540 homefax: (703)356-4143 Email: Dr. Hansen
Rudolph Leibel, M.D. Professor of Pediatrics College of Physicians and Surgeons Russ Berrie Medical Science Pavilion 1150 St. Nicholas Ave New York, New York 10032 Phone: (212) 851-5257 FAX: (212) 851-5306 Email: rl232@cgcmail.cpmc.columbia.edu
Claude Bouchard, Ph.D. Executive Director Pennington Biomedical Research Center Louisiana State University 6400 Perkins Road Baton Rouge, LA 70808 Phone: (225) 763-2513 FAX: (225) 763-0935 Email: bouchaC@pbrc.edu Dr. D. Rodger Illingworth Professor of Medicine Dept of Medicine and Biochemistry Oregon Health Sciences University 3181 S.W. Sam Jackson Park Road Portland, OR 97201 Phone: (503) 494-2004 FAX: (503) 494-6986 Email: bisaccip@ohsu.edu | Japanese Panel Members Yasushi Saito, M.D. Chairman Professor Dept. of Clinical Cell Biology Graduate School of Medicine Chiba University 1-8-1 Inohana Chuoku Chiba 260-8670 Japan Phone: 043-226-2089 FAX: 043-226-2089 Email: yasushi@intmed02.m.chiba-u.ac.jp Yuji Matsuzawa, M.D., Ph.D. Director, Sumitomo Hospital Professor Emeritus, Osaka University 5-3-20 Nakanoshima, Kita-ku Osaka 530-0005 Japan Phone: (81) 6-6443-1261 FAX: (81) 6-6444-3975 Email: matsuzawa-yuji@sumitomo-hp.or.jp Masanobu Kawakami, M.D. Professor and Chairman Dept of Medicine Omiya Medical Center Jichi Medical School 1-847 Amanuma Saitama Saitama-Ken 330-8503 Japan Phone: 048-647-2111 FAX: 048-648-5166 Email: nobukawa@omiya.jichi.ac.jp Heizo Tanaka, M.D., Ph.D., FFPHM Director-General National Institute of Health and Nutrition Professor Emeritus Tokyo Medical and Dental University 1-23-1, Toyama, Shinjuku-ku Tokyo, Japan 162-8636 Phone: 03-3203-5721 FAX: 03-3202-3278 Email: h-tanaka@nih.go.jp
Dr. Yasuyoshi Ouchi Professor Dept of Geriatric Medicine University of Tokyo, Japan 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku Chiba Tokyo 113-0033, Japan Phone:03-3815-5411 FAX:03-5800-6529 Email: youchi-tky@umin.ac.jp |
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