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Re-designation ceremony as an IAEA Collaborating Centre

Re-designation ceremony of Hiroshima International Council for Health Care of the Radiation-exposed (HICARE) as collaborating centre (*) for International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) was held,which is the second renewal of the designation. 

Liaison officers, Dr. Kodama and Dr.Nagata, also Director Dohy talked about workplarns for the next four years with Dr. May.

 

Date November 11, 2022
Venue Rihga Royal Hotel Hiroshima
Attendants IAEADirector May Abdel-Wahab : IAEA Division of Human Health
 HICARE

President Kenji Kamiya : Vice presien to of Hiroshima Univ.

Executive secretary Kazunori Kodama : Director, Radiation Effects Research Foundation

Executive Secretary Yasushi Nagata : Professor, Hiroshima Univ.

Director Hiroo Dohy : Honorary Director, Hiroshima Red Cross Hospital & Atomic-bomb Survivors Hospital

HICARE Secretaly General and others

 

* Collaborating Centre

Collaborating Centre is institution with high technologies that meet the IAEA requirements to promote projects related to research, technological development, education/training, etc. in collaboration with IAEA. HICARE was designated as such on May 26, 2014.

Re-designation Ceremony as an IAEA Collaborating Centre

Re-designation ceremony of Hiroshima International Council for Health Care of the Radiation-exposed (HICARE) as collaborating centre (*1) for International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) was held at IAEA main office in the presence of Mr. Yukiya Amano, Director General of the IAEA.

 

   Date November 3, 2017
  Venue IAEA Headquarters, Vienna,
Attendants

 IAEA

Yukiya Amano: Director General of the IAEA

Aldo Malavasi: Deputy Director General / Head of the Department of Nuclear Sciences and Applications

May Abdel-Wahab : Director of the IAEA Division of Human Health.

The Permanent Mission of    Japan to the International  Organizations in Vienna

Minister Hirotaka Matsuo

HICARE

Dr. Satoshi Tashiro: Executive Secretaries Professor of Hiroshima University Research Institute for Radiation Biology and Medicine, gave a lecure

Dr. Hamasaki: Researcher Department of Molecular Biosciences, Radiation Effects Research Foundation (Dispatched from HICARE)

 

 

【Contents】

Director Amano presented Professor Tashiro (Executive Secretary of HICARE) the designation plaque of Collaborating Centre.

Professor Tashiro read a statement on behalf of President Hiramatsu, to announce that HICARE will continue to cooperate with IAEA and promote further contribution to the medical care for the Radiation-exposed through human resource development and joint research collaborating on three regions as followings;

1. Biodosimetry

2. Radiation Accidents and Disasters

3. Advanced Radiotherapy.

Designation Ceremony as an IAEA Collaborating Centre

May 2014, Hiroshima International Council for Health Care of the Radiation-exposed (HICARE) was designated as a collaborating centre (*1) for International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). After National Institute of Radiological Sciences in Chiba, HICARE became the second such collaborating centre in Japan. HICARE, however, is the first consortium to be designated as a collaborating centre by IAEA.
  To mark this occasion, on May 26, 2014, HICARE held a designation ceremony and seminar at the Rihga Royal Hotel in Hiroshima City. (For more details about the seminar, refer to "Enhancement of Public Awareness")

 

*1 Collaborating Centre
IAEA designates institutions with advanced technologies (that meet the IAEA requirements) as collaborating centres to promote projects related to research, technological development, education/training, etc. in collaboration with IAEA.

[ Designation Ceremony ]
Dr. Rethy Chhem of IAEA (Director of Division of Human Health) presented the designation plaque to Dr. Okubo (President of HICARE) in the presence of a number of dignitaries including the Governor of Hiroshima Prefecture and the Mayor of Hiroshima City.
  HICARE will further its contribution to the international society through closer collaboration with IAEA in the field of “Capacity Building in Radiation Effects and Human Health” – a message engraved on the plaque.

From left, HICARE director - Dr. Dohy and Dr. Hiramatsu, the Mayor - Mr. Matsui, Dr. Okubo, Dr. Chhem, Governor Yuzaki, Mr. Asahara - President of Hiroshima University, and HICARE director - Dr. Matsumura