activities

Just the other day, I received an email notification that a medical information project I participated in during my time at UM (Univ. Malaya) called “DeSProg” received the “International Innovation Award, <Silver Award>” from the “Malaysia Technology Expo 2025”. This is one of the previous work at my former place, and I am pleased to

Yesterday, I gave a webinar on “Ikigai” at the request of the “ASEAN Youth Organization/AYO”, a very well-known non-profit organization in ASEAN even by prime ministers across ASEAN. With 45 minutes of lecture and 15 minutes of Q&A, I was very happy to hear good questions from the audience. We had 100 young and bright

Today, I received an email from the organizer with a certificate of appreciation for the webinar for medical students hosted by UMMC (University of Malaya Medical Center) that I did in May this year. It was already half a year ago. Time flies, man. Coincidentally today, I left Japan for Malaysia for the final procedures

It’s finally here, my last day of work at the University of Malaya, and it has been a very valuable 3-year experience. My official contract was to last until December 14, but I had 25 days of “on-leave/paid leave” for this year that I had not used at all, so I decided to use these

This time, I gave a webinar to a lecture request in the “Health Informatics/Health Informatics” program designed for students of the UM (University of Malaya) Faculty of Medicine. However, the organizer, Prof Nasriah, who now teaches in Saudi Arabia, and myself and Prof Pang are all colleagues in the eHealth Unit anyways. Only Prof Sarinder,

Last night, as part of a seminar series titled “Blood Cancer Know-it-all Night” organized by CNJ (Cancer Net Japan), I gave a two-hour talk on “Shared Decision-Making (SDM),” a framework for reaching a consensus that is acceptable to both medical professionals and patients/families in a difficult decision-making setting in healthcare. I am in charge of

I was the only one who attended online instead of from the larger venue in Yokohama. I reported on the use of big data and AI in Malaysia, using the response to Covid-19 as an example, and talked about the future international trends of medical bigdata and AI. I myself learned a lot from the

I once appeared on the Youtube channel of Rev. Sakuranbo, with three of my colleagues from my online salon. One of us is his old, old friend. It was surprisingly well received, and I was grateful for the invitation to appear on his channel as solo this time. For a full hour, I talked about

人口減少によって国内需要の縮小が懸念される中、海外市場の開拓とインバウンド需要の取り込みが求められており、今後はますます「グローバル・エリート」の活躍が期待されます。昨12月にマレーシアに移住した私が、半年間の体験も示しながら、教育制度の課題、これからの「グローバルエリート」の在り方、育成法について多方面から考えた本セミナーには、20名程度の方々が川崎市だけでなく遠方からも駆けつけて下さり、とても賑やかなイベントとなりました。コミュニティ向けイベント「おとなの寺子屋」主宰で行われ、いつも通り我らが「スーパー大家」の木村さんの全面協力により、セミナー後は駄菓子の木村屋パブリックスペースにてBBQ（と、もちろん酒盛り）。懐かしい顔たちと旧交を温めました！ なんと今回のイベントは、正式に外務省の日本大使館（在マレーシア・クアラルンプール）から協賛（協賛イベントページはここ）を貰っていたのですが、そのお眼鏡にかなうものだったかどうか…は、恐らく参加された方々の今後の行動にかかっているかと思います。こうご期待！ また、今回は「おとてら」期待の若人たち、あきはくん、りゅーどーくん、ななちゃんが、揃って8月以降に海外留学することが正式決定したとの報告を皆の前で行ってくれました！しかもその中で「フル奨学金」まで獲得したという快挙！！このような、海外へ飛び出していける勇敢で知力のある若者を、自分の周りからどんどん輩出したいと思いつつこの活動を5年続けてきた「寺主」の私としては、この驚くべきアウトカムは大変嬉しかったです。

The picture of the event I attended the other day as a panelist (the name was a bit overstated in nature, I feel). I had initially planed to go there in usual Nori style of T-shirt and casual long pants, but I went there in suits with a tie (very unusual for a man who forgets how to tie it) after having got a text regarding the dress code.