Saturday 24 May 2014

Upcoming conference on medical tourism - Rikkyo University, Niisa, Japan - 18-19 July 2014

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

  • 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


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)
16:00-16:20 Break / 休憩 

16:20-17:00 Discussion / ディスカッション