Sapporo · Japan

Sapporo Medical University Hospital (札幌医科大学附属病院)

Inflammatory Bowel Disease Center (炎症性腸疾患センター)

The Inflammatory Bowel Disease Center was set up by Sapporo Medical University Hospital to give specialised, comprehensive care to people with ulcerative colitis, Crohn's disease and other IBD. Doctors, nurses, pharmacists and dietitians work as one team on treatment matched to each patient, with support aimed at quality of life. The centre's remit is IBD diagnosis and treatment, education of IBD healthcare staff, and IBD research, and its published membership includes a paediatrician, nurses, pharmacists and nutrition staff alongside gastroenterologists.

What this unit is strong at

  • A named centre with a published membership list: gastroenterology, paediatrics, nursing, pharmacy and nutrition
  • Doctors, nurses, pharmacists and dietitians working as one team
  • A remit that covers IBD diagnosis and treatment, education of IBD healthcare staff, and research
  • A deputy director from the university’s chair of IBD telemedicine (炎症性腸疾患遠隔医療講座)

Services

  • Adult IBD
  • Dietitian

The team

  • 仲瀬 裕志

    センター長 (Director), Inflammatory Bowel Disease Center; Professor, Department of Gastroenterology

  • 風間 友江

    副センター長 (Deputy Director), Inflammatory Bowel Disease Center; Specially Appointed Assistant Professor, IBD Telemedicine

Where this came from

Everything on this page was read on the centre’s own published pages. Nothing here is inferred, and nothing is filled in where we could not find it.

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