International Association of Risk Management in Medicine

(IARMM)


Steering Body




1 July 2026

 

(A)           Director Board

(Role of Chairing board)
1)
The Committee has a final responsibility to decide all of IARMM activities, including the IARMM budget plan.
2)
The Committee meeting is held in every World Congress. And email communication is carried out if necessary.
3)
The Committee member is valid in 4 years, and can be extended in another 4 years.

 

(President)

Ryoji Sakai

Former.  EPFL, USM, TWU etc. Tokyo

(Chair)

Hiroyuki Uetake

National Disaster Medical Center, Tokyo.  Former TMDU. Tokyo

(Vice Chairs)

Rusli Bin Nordin

Malaysian Allied Health Sciences Academy, Fac. Med

(Clinical safety)

 

 

Canada

Nathalie de Marcellis-Warin

Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal, Healthcare safety

Japan

Kento Doi

Univ. Tokyo, Acute Med., Med. Device Safety. 

Japan

Masaki Q. Fujita

Keio University Hospital, Forensic medicine, Tokyo

Japan

Yukio Naya

Teikyo Chiba Med Center,  Healthcare safety,

Japan

Kazuhisa Takemura

Waseda University. Psychology, Tokyo

Japan

Noriko Sakoda

Dokkyo Medical University, Nursing,  Tochigi

Japan

Haruo Nakayama

Toho University, Ohmori Hops. Neurosurgery, Tokyo

(Infectious disease control)

 

 

Russia

Ilyin KV

Russian Academy of Science, Moskow

Russia

Elena Ryabchikova

Russian Academy of Science, Novosibirsk

Japan

Hiroshi Yotsuyanagi

Univ. Tokyo, Inst. Med. Science Hosp. Tokyo

Japan

Takeya Tatsuya

Univ. Tokyo Hosp., Infectious Dis. Tokyo

USA

Helda Pinzon-Perez

California State University Fresno

(Envenom.  risk management)

 

 

Sweden

Kjell Andersson

Karita Research (radiation risk communication)

Ukraine

Alexander Pivovarov

Former Ukraine State Chemical-Technology University

(Disaster health risk management)

 

 

Japan

Yasuhiro Ohtomo

Tokyo Women’s Med Univ. Acute Med

Japan

Tadasi Ishi

Tohoku University Hospital (disaster medicine)

(Risk Management)

 

 

Japan

Satoshi Fujii

Univ. Kyoto, Fac. Engineering

 

 

(Secretary General)

Harou Nakayama, MD.    Toho University Ohmari Hospital, Tokyo, Japan

 

 

 

(B)  Councilor Board

(Role of Councilor)

1) Councilor should play a role to promote IARMM activities in an academic aspect.

2) The Board meeting is held in every World Congress.

3) Councilor is valid in 4 years and can be extended in another 4 years.

 

(Clinical safety)

 

Mary P Tully

Manchester Pharmacy School, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK (medication  error)

Toru Hashida

Dr Kobe City Medical Center Hospital, Pharmacology, Kobe, Japan

Haytham Kaafarani

Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA (surgical safety)

Ahmad Elsheikh

Director of Quality and Patient Safety, Makkah, Ministry of Interior, Saudi Arabia (patient safety)

Masao Nagayama

Intl  Med Welfare University, Japan (healthcare safety)

Naoto Ikeda

Showa Med Univ,  Japan (Neurosurgery)

Kazuki Hayashi

Nagoya City Med Unvi, Japan  (Healthcare safety)

(Infectious disease control)

 

Riaz-ul-Haq

Pakistan Red Crescent Society, National Headquarter, Islamabad, Pakistan

(Health risk management)

 

Peter Jewell

Peter Jewell Lab, Lancaster, UK

 

 

(C)          Honor member

http://www.iarmm.org/Ucommittee.shtml

 

 

(D)          Special guest member

(Clinical safety)

 

 

 

Canada

Bjoern Bruecher

New Westminster College, Vancouver.  Bon Secours Cancer Institute, USA (surgery)

 

China

Phillip Beh

University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong (forensic medicine)

 

Japan

Minoru Ono

University of Tokyo, Graduate School of Medicine (cardiovascular surgery)

 

Spain

Maria Angeles Cuadrado Cenzual

Completeness University of Madrid (internal medicine)

 

Spain

Enric Macarulla

Autonomous University of Barcelona (medical simulation)

 

UK

Michael Frost

Broomfield Hospital, UK (anesthetist)

 

UK  

Bryony Dean Franklin

University of College London, School of Pharmacy (medication safety)

 

UK

Dean Ian Curen

Queen Mary University of London (medical education)

 

UK

Peter McCulloch

John Radcliffe Hosp., University of Oxford

 

USA

May C. M. Pian-Smith

Harvard Medical School (anesthesia)

 

USA

Milenko J. Tanasijevic

Firmer Harvard Medical School (pathology & clinical laboratory)

 

Taiwan

Mingi Chan-Liao

Jen Ai Hospital, Tali-Taichung  (clinical safety)

 

Germany

Job Harenberg

Former Heidelberg University Hospital, Mannheim (internal medicine and clinical pharmacology)

 

Germany

Uvo M Hölscher

Ing. Münster University of Applied Sciences, Münster (medical technology and ergonomics)

 

Singapore

Gilbert Lau

National University of Singapore,

 

USA

Eric Poon

Former Harvard University,

 

(Health risk management)

 

 

 

Korea

Joon Pil Cho

Ajou University Hospital, Seoul (health risk management)

 

(Disaster health  risk management)

 

 

 

Japan

Kimiro Meguro

University of Tokyo (urban disaster safety)

 

(Occupational health & Safety)

 

Slovakia

Rimanova Kvetoslava

Institute of Hygiene, Medical School, Kosice

(Radiation health & safety)

 

 

Iran

S.M.J. Mortazvi

Rafsanjan University of Medical Science, Rafsanjan