
Narufumi Suganuma
Professor Narufumi Suganuma is Dean of Kochi Medical School since 2018 after served as Vice President of Research and then VP for International Affairs of the whole Kochi University for 6 years. He has been driving a force for the globalization of KMS and KU as a whole, connecting Japan and Brazil, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Thailand, Indonesia, and Philippines, and other countries. As an expert on occupational lung disease, he has served as ILO expert for WHO/ILO Global Programme for Elimination of Silicosis and provided courses for chest radiography reading hands-on seminars for almost 20 years. He has a special interest in medical screening of occupational environmental respiratory diseases using radiography and CT. He has a US NIOSH B reader and co-founder and director of the AIR Pneumo (Asian Intensive Reader of Pneumoconiosis) since 2006.