HOMEAssistant Professor Kensuke Takahashi

Faculty

Assistant Professor Kensuke Takahashi

Speciality / Research theme / Keywords
Infectious disease, Clinical medicine, Humanitarian supports, Emergency medicine, General physician
Supervision
Masters ProgrammeDoctoral Programme

Qualifications

Medical Doctor, Ph.D., Fellowship of Japanese Society of Internal Medicine General Physician, Certificated Specialist of Infectious Diseases – The Japanese Association of Infectious Diseases

Personal/work Web page addresses

http://www.mh.nagasaki-u.ac.jp/emc/emir/initiatives/ https://www.msf.or.jp/team_msf/expats/interview/04.html

Affiliation(s)

Assistant Professor, Acute & Critical Care Unit, Nagasaki University Hospital Medical Doctor, Nagasaki Harbor Medical Center Board, Médecins Sans Frontières Japan

Background

2006 Medical School of Hirosaki University 2014 Médecins Sans Frontières (Ethiopia) 2015 Ph.D., Graduate school of Biomedical sciences, Nagasaki University 2015 – present Assistant professor, Nagasaki University 2021 – present Faculty staff, School of TMGH, Nagasaki University

Teaching

Travel medicine, Case conference of Tropical Diseases

Research

Respiratory diseases in Vietnam, Congenital Rubella Syndrome, Clinical management of COVID-19

The country/countries where you work currently

Philippine

Five MOST IMPORTANT/INTERESTING recent publications

  1. Takahashi K, Tsuzuki S, Le MN, Anh NH, Anh DD, Ariyoshi K, Yoshida L-M. Community-based pathogen-specific incidence of influenza-like illness due to respiratory viruses in South-central Vietnam in 2009–2012: after a pandemic of influenza A viruses. Trop Med Health. 2025; 53:51.
  2. Yanes RR, Malijan GMB, Escora-Garcia LK, Ricafrente SAM, Salazar MJ, Suzuki S, Smith C, Ariyoshi K, Solante RM, Edrada EM, Takahashi K. Detection of SARS-CoV-2 and HHV-8 from a large pericardial effusion in an HIV-positive patient with COVID-19 and clinically diagnosed Kaposi sarcoma: a case report. Trop Med Health. 2022; 50(1):72.
  3. Domai FM, Agrupis KA, Han SM, Sayo AR, Ramirez JS, Nepomuceno R, Suzuki S, Villanueva AMG, Salva EP, Villarama JB, Ariyoshi K, Mulholland K, Palla L, Takahashi K, Smith C, Miranda E. Measles outbreak in the Philippines: epidemiological and clinical characteristics of hospitalized children, 2016–2019. Lancet Reg Health West Pac. 2021; 19:100334.
  4. Haidar MK, Vogt F, Takahashi K, Henaff F, Umphrey L, Morton N, Bawo L, Kerkula J, Ferner R, Porten K, Baud FJ. Suspected paracetamol overdose in Monrovia, Liberia: a matched case-control study. BMC Pediatr. 2020; 20(1):139.
  5. Takahashi K, Suzuki M, Le Minh N, Anh NH, Huong LT, Son TV, Long PT, Ai NT, Tho Le H, Morimoto K, Kilgore PE, Anh DD, Ariyoshi K, Yoshida LM. The incidence and aetiology of hospitalised community-acquired pneumonia among Vietnamese adults: a prospective surveillance in Central Vietnam. BMC Infect Dis. 2013; 13:296.

Message

I’m keen in fusion of the clinical medicine and the research, as well as removing the border between domestic and global health. Now I’m straggling with “Evaluation of medical quality in humanitarian activities”.

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