Greetings

May 1, 2010

Welcome to the Forum

Dir Sir/ Madam

Since Union of Risk Management for Preventive Medicine (URMPM) was born in Switzerland in 2002 as an international academic society, the current academic members distribute over 70 countries in both of developed countries and underdeveloped countries, including many international regulatory organizations, such as UN, UNU, WHO, OECD, UNEP, ILO.

The URMPM hold e-conference for SARS crisis in 2003, which had been accessed by over 6000 around the world. Also, the URMPM has conducted 2 international forums, i.e., patient safety issue in 2005, and infectious disease issue in 2007, too.

According to urgent requests by our members in the URMPM, ‘Global Forum of Crisis Management and Crisis Communication for Health Care’ now launches in November 2010. The present academic congress is performed jointly with both issues of patient safety and new-infectious disease, together. Finally, the current targeted risks are medical accident, new influenza and disaster.

A year is a time when new influenza, disasters and medical accidents generate huge crisis in health care and community around the world.  To shire the experiences, the knowledge and the skills of crisis management and crisis communication in the above risks is clearly urgent to brush up fine heath care system in the international and national perspectives.

The URMPM wishes that all of you will join together around the word toward better heath care practice in our new globe.

Sincerely

International Science Board

Ryoji Sakai (Chair & President, Union of Risk Management for Preventive Medicine, Tokyo, Japan )

Pat Caplan (Emeritus Prof. University of London, UK)

Ranger.Lofstedt (Prof. King's College London, King's Center for Risk Management, UK)

James.E. Banta (Prof. George Washington University, Global Health, USA)

Paul Slovic (Emeritus Prof. University of Oregon, President of Decision Research, USA)

Walter C Willette (Prof. Harvard University, Boston, USA)

Bruno Gottstein (Prof. Zurich Medical University, Switzerland )

Kjell Anderson (President, Karita Research, Sweden)

Bjorm Malbert (Prof. Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden)

M. Ste-MARIE (Prof. Quebec Risk Management Committee, McGill University, Montreal, Canada)

Nathalie de Marcellis-Warin (Prof. École Polytechnique de Montréal, Canada)

Jean L. Virelizier (Prof. Institut Pasteur, Viral Immunology, Paris, France)

Michael Oborne (Executive Director, OECD, Paris, France)

V. K. Ilyin (Prof. Russian Academy of Science, Moscow, Russia)

Son Arck Wongkhomthong (President, Bangkok Hospital.  Former Prof. Mahidol University, Thailand)

Rusli Bin Nordin (Prof. Monash University, Malaysia)

Takahiro Kuichi (Prof. The University of Tokyo, Health Communication, Japan)

Kazuhiko. Maekawa (Emeritus Prof., The University of Tokyo, Acute Medicine, Japan)

Kouji. Matsushima (Prof. The University of Tokyo, Molecular Preventive Medicine, Japan)

Kimiro Meguro (Prof. The University of Tokyo, Urban Safety, Japan)

Hiroshi Yasuhara (Prof. The University of Tokyo Hospital, Surgery Operation Room, Japan)

Kenichi Yoshida (Prof. The University of Tokyo, Forensic Medicine, Japan)

,and others.

C) URMPM - Japan