Harumi Gomi, MD, FACP, FIDSA, AFAMEE, (second from right) joins colleagues at a recent national annual infectious disease conference in her hometown of Okayama, Japan.
Harumi Gomi, MD, FACP, FIDSA, AFAMEE
— OCCUPATION —
Professor, Office of Medical Education and Center for Infectious Diseases, International University of Health and Welfare, School of Medicine, Narita, Japan— MEDICAL SCHOOL —
Okayama University Medical School, Okayama, Japan— RESIDENCY —
Okayama Red Cross Hospital, Okayama, Japan, and Beth Israel Medical Center, New York, NY
Although she was born, raised, and attended medical school in Japan, Dr. Harumi Gomi dreamed of doing her medical residency in the United States. She studied and worked in Dartmouth, NH, New York City, Baltimore, Houston, and Springfield, IL, before returning to Japan to teach medical students a different way of examining patients.
What inspired you to become a physician?
My interest began when I was 4 or 5 years old and I watched a TV program showing surgeries. It was truly exciting to me, and I started to dream about becoming medical doctor. My major turning point came in high school, when I met Yuko Ishizaki, who was medical student at the time and just a bit older than me. She explained how much she was enjoying medical school and she completely convinced me to pursue a career in medicine. We’ve been very good friends in the 35 years since then. She’s a professor of pediatrics in Osaka and we still meet occasionally and talk about our personal and professional lives.
ACP日本支部Physician’s Well-being Committee（以下、PWC）からACP会員の皆さまにご報告です。この度、PWCから”Burnout, depression, anxiety, and insomnia of internists and primary care physicians during the COVID-19 pandemic in Japan: A cross-sectional survey”の論文がAsian Journal of Psychiatry誌で出版されましたのでご報告させて頂きます。調査にご協力頂いた皆様に心より御礼申し上げます。
Akira Kuriyama, Kiyoshi Shikino,Mitsuru Moriya, Michito Sadohara, Saori Nonaka, Kazuya Nagasaki, Yoshito Nishimura, Takahiro Matsuo, Kumiko Muramatsu, Tetsuya Makiishi. Burnout, depression, anxiety, and insomnia of internists and primary care physicians during the COVID-19 pandemic in Japan: A cross-sectional survey. Asian Journal of Psychiatry. 2022.
