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Keio University is solidifying plans to build new hospital wings and other facilities in line with its effort to restructure the Keio University School of Medicine and Keio University Hospital.
Background and situation
- Guarantee of medical safety and security.
- Increasingly advanced medical quality.
- Response to bio and medical ethics.
- Interest in health within the elderly community, etc.
Directions and details
- Provide medical care that is gentle to, trusted by, and focused on patients.
- Develop advanced medical practices and provide high-quality and safe medical care.
- Develop highly capable medical personnel that possess strong interpersonal skills and ethics.
- Contribute to society on the international level through sophisticated medical research.
- Contribute to human welfare through medicine and medical care that respects human rights.
- Construction of a new preventive medicine framework and facility that takes advantage of Keio University’s medical resources.
A Center for Preventive Medicine (provisional name) will be opened within the Keio University Hospital to engage in prevention and early detection of heart disease, stroke, and dementia as well as early detection and lifestyle guidance for metabolic syndromes (adult diseases) associated with hypertension, diabetes, etc.
The center will play a leading role in advanced and fine-tuned preventive medicine.
Artist's rendering of Center for Preventive Medicine (provisional name)
- Building of frameworks and facilities toward establishment of a clinical research center.
The university will open a building for clinical research (scheduled to be completed in January 2008). Plans call for this building to become the home of a clinical research center that will handle new clinical research support functions, including support for treatments and translational research.
Update: An official opening ceremony for the new building was held on January 31, 2008. The new Keio Center for Clinical Research (CCR) is located on the first floor.
Building an S&T foundation for the future on the Yagami Campus
Background and situation
- While seeking to develop S&T, science and engineering persistently pursues sophistication, complexity, and compartmentalization.
- As part of this effort, it is important to develop human resources possessing fundamental academic capabilities and creativity as well as a broad perspective for activity in international society—based on the motto: learning the basics in order to open the next new field.
- With this in mind, the Faculty of Science and Technology is further promoting reform of its organizational framework for education and research. It is also enhancing basic education and research as well as bases and facilities for these purposes to achieve a fundamental understanding of the nature of things.
Pioneering the future and leading university reform at the global level
Background and situation
- The Shonan Fujisawa Campus has endeavored to develop human resources that can identify problems and then create solutions.
- Using Keio University’s 150th anniversary as a springboard, SFC is tackling challenges in pioneering fields as a campus that “designs the future.” These fields include social innovation, public policy, the Earth and its environments, information and media, and health and nursing care.
- SFC intends to begin addressing these challenges by introducing the “SFC Curriculum: On Designing the Future” in FY2007 and, further, developing a “Create the Future School” (provisional name) that includes facilities for this curriculum.
