We have been holding a series of events called “Find-Your-Role-Model” Session to provide students with opportunities to interact with TMDU alumni and worldwide leaders in healthcare sciences. Through this roundtable-type, relaxed atmosphere event, we hope students will be able to find their role models to help facilitate their career development toward becoming future global leaders.

This time we will host clinician/clinical researchers Drs. Nao and Jun Sasaki, Assistant Attending Pediatricians and Assistant Professors of Pediatrics at Weill Cornell Medicine. After graduating from Tokyo Medical and Dental University School of Medicine, they did a one-year internship at U.S. Naval Hospital Yokosuka. Then, completed pediatric residencies and fellowships at renowned pediatric hospitals in the U.S. Dr. Nao Sasaki specializes in pediatric cardiology and Dr. Jun Sasaki in pediatric critical care.

Everyone is welcome to join us in a hearty discussion.

Topics

1) Personal Background / Mindset

Career vision and background that led them to where they are now.
Role models, decisions made at career crossroads, past hardships and failures and how they were overcome

2) Current / future activities

Career options of international medical graduates after clinical training in the U.S.
Academic career in the U.S.
Current activities, visions / missions

3) Careers of female physicians

Work-life balance of physicians / academicians in the U.S.,
Careers of female physicians in the U.S.,
Child care and household responsibilities

4) Advice for students

Advice for students considering post-graduate clinical study abroad
How to search for and gather information
Advice for preparation during one’s student years and early in one's career