Medical Tourism In Asia: Current Trends and Issues
Conference Programme
18 July 2014 - At Rikkyo University, Niiza campus (In English)
11:00-12:30 Welcome / Opening remarks by Tsutomu INAGAKI
Session 1: Medical tourism and national development policy
12:30-13:30 Lunch Break
13:30-15:00 Session 2: Medical tourism as a service industry
15:00-15:30 Break
15:30-17:00 Session 3: Reproductive travel and ethics
19 July 2014 - At Rikkyo University, Ikebukuro campus (With simultaneous English-Japanese interpretation)
13:00-14:05 Keynote / 基調講演
14:05-14:15 Break / 休憩
14:15-16:00 Panel session - The current state of medical tourism in Asia and its challenges / パネル発表 ７名の発表者がアジアの医療ツーリズムの現状分析と課題を提示
Moderator: Shinji SHIGEMATSU, Professor Emeritus, Nagoya University) / [司会者: 重松伸司 名古屋大学 名誉教授 ]
16:20-17:00 Discussion / ディスカッション
Conference Programme
18 July 2014 - At Rikkyo University, Niiza campus (In English)
11:00-12:30 Welcome / Opening remarks by Tsutomu INAGAKI
Session 1: Medical tourism and national development policy
- Mika TOYOTA ‘Medical tourism as national economic development in Asia: comparative case study of Singapore and Thailand versus Japan and Taiwan’
- Toshiki MANO ‘The situation of medial tourism policy in Japan and Asia’
- YANXIA Zhang ‘The rise of Chinese birth tourism: getting on the fast track to superior citizenship’
12:30-13:30 Lunch Break
13:30-15:00 Session 2: Medical tourism as a service industry
- Mayumi ONO ‘Retirement migration facilitating Elderly Care Service: The case of Malaysia and Thailand’
- Timothy LEE ‘Current issues of the medical tourism industry: the case of South Korea’
- Meghann ORMOND ‘Intermediaries, Facilitators, Agents, and Guides: Steering International Medical Travel to Malaysia’
- Session Commentator: Takashi KAWABATA
15:00-15:30 Break
15:30-17:00 Session 3: Reproductive travel and ethics
- Danicar MARIANO ‘The Bioethics Advisory Committee’s role in motivating Singaporeans to become Fertility Tourists’
- CHEE Heng Leng ‘Moral Discourse in medical tourism’
- Andrea WHITTAKER ‘From intimate industry to rotten trade: reproductive travel in Southeast Asia’
- Session Commentator: Meghann ORMOND
19 July 2014 - At Rikkyo University, Ikebukuro campus (With simultaneous English-Japanese interpretation)
13:00-14:05 Keynote / 基調講演
- Speaker: Andrea WHITTAKER (Monash University, Australia / モナシュ大学) ‘Questions, controversies and challenges in cross border reproductive care in Asia’
- Commentator: Namie TSUJIGAMI, Associate Professor, University of Tokyo / コメンテーター 辻上 奈美恵 (東京大学 特准教授)
14:05-14:15 Break / 休憩
14:15-16:00 Panel session - The current state of medical tourism in Asia and its challenges / パネル発表 ７名の発表者がアジアの医療ツーリズムの現状分析と課題を提示
Moderator: Shinji SHIGEMATSU, Professor Emeritus, Nagoya University) / [司会者: 重松伸司 名古屋大学 名誉教授 ]
- Overview of Asia - アジア圏の医療ツーリズムの特色と概要 (Meghann ORMOND, Wageningen University, The Netherlands)
- Japan - 日本の事例 (Toshiki Mano, Tama University / 真野俊樹、多摩大学)
- Korea - 韓国の事例 (Timothy LEE, Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University / 立命館アジア太平洋大学)
- India - インドの事例 (Masanori KONDO, International Christian University / 近藤正規、国際基督教大学)
- Thailand - タイの事例 (Mika TOYOTA, Rikkyo University / 豊田三佳、立教大学)
- Malaysia - マレーシアの事例 (CHEE Heng Leng, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Malaysia)
- Singapore - シンガポールの事例 (Danicar MARIANO, National University of Singapore, Singapore)
16:20-17:00 Discussion / ディスカッション
