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On Sunday May 15 ERAS®Japan was officially inaugurated as a new ERAS®Chapter and partner to the ERAS®Society. The ceremony took place in Nagahama City with Professor Olle Ljungqvist co-founder and past chairman of the ERAS®Society and Professor Kyoichi Takaori from Nagahama city hospital, who has been leading the development of the chapter.
-Professor Takaori with our ERAS Society co-founder and past Chairman Professor Olle Ljungqvist
Professor Takaori is serving as the first President of ERAS®Japan, with a multi-professional and multidisciplinary board of prominent Japanese colleagues from around the country and from several Japanese medical societies.
The inauguration ceremony took place at the Grazie Hotel during the first ERAS®Japan conference in front of 150 delegates. During the meeting invited national and foreign speakers and members of the Board of the newly formed ERAS®Japan presented on various ERAS related topics. Of special interest was the reporting of initial promising results from the first ongoing ERAS® Implementation Program at Nagahama city hospital led by Drs Kwang Yeong How and VerazLim from ERAS®Singapore.
-The team at Nagahama City hospital and the Coure Director Prof. Ljungqvist and Trainers Dr. Kwang Yeong and Dr. Vera.
The initiation of ERAS®Japan has caught a lot of attention in the medical world of Japan, and the Society is already connecting to and collaborating with all other ERAS®Society National Chapters in the region and is very welcomed and important ERAS®Chapter partner to the ERAS®Society.
A message from our Chairman: “The initiation of ERAS® Japan is an important development within the ERAS® Society globally. Therefore, I very warmly welcome our newest member in the global network of National ERAS Chapters. We congratulate
Professor Takaori and his team for this great effort and look forward to collaborate with him and his team.”
Hans D. de Boer
Chairman ERAS Society
-Welcome Address by the Mayor of Nagahama City, Mr. Nobuyoshi Asami
