Academic backgrounds Graduation Date 31-Mar-2011 The Doctor’s Program of the Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences of Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Japan; Health Care Informatics Graduation Date 17-Mar-2006 The master’s Program of the Graduate School of Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Japan; Medical Administration Graduation Date 21-Mar-1997 The Faculty of Pharmacy School of Pharmacy, Kitasato University, Japan; Pharmaceutical Sciences ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Work Experiences 01-Aug-2022 to present Professor Division of Pharmacoepidemiology, Department of Healthcare and Regulatory Sciences, Showa University, School of Pharmacy, Tokyo, Japan 01-Apr-2019 Associate professor Department of Drug Safety and Risk Management, School of Pharmacy, Tokyo University of Pharmacy and Life Sciences, Tokyo, Japan 01-Apr-2014 Assistant researcher National Hospital Organization Headquarters 01-Apr-2013 Visiting researcher Section of Social Medicine, Department of Community Medicine and Public Health, Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Sweden 01-May-2010 Analyst / Assistant Professor University of Tokyo Hospital, The Database Center of the National University Hospitals Japan 01-Sep-2005 Director of Human Resources / General Manager Kanamachi Central Hospital, Tokyo, Japan 01-04-1997 Pharmacist University of Tokyo Hospital, Tokyo, Japan

Dr. Ryo WATANABE is a professor at the Graduate School of Health Innovation and the deputy director of the Center for Innovation Policy at Kanagawa University of Human Services in Kanagawa, Japan. His academic disciplines include health policy, health administration, and managerial accounting in healthcare. As a researcher, he focuses on health policy using secondary data including claim data an health check-up data. He received a B.S.H. from Ohio University and an M.P.H. from the University of Tokyo School of Public Health. He earned his Ph.D. from Hitotsubashi University in 2015. In 2018, he was appointed as a founding faculty member of the Graduate School of Health Innovation at Kanagawa University of Human Services. In addition to his academic roles, Dr. Watanabe serves as the president of the Initiative for Social & Public Health (iSPH; a non-profit organization) and as a scientific researcher at the Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development.

Dr. Miho Ishimaru is a project assistant professor at the Institute of Education, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Tokyo, Japan. She is a dentist and earned a Bachelor of Dental Surgery from Hokkaido University in 2012, a Master of Public Health from The University of Tokyo in 2016, and a Ph.D. in Medicine from The University of Tokyo in 2020. Her areas of expertise include clinical research and health services research in the field of dentistry utilizing real-world data.

She is a member of the Division of Pharmacoepidemiology, Office of Pharmacovigilance I at Pharmaceuticals and Medical Devices Agency (PMDA). In this position, she is engaged in pharmacoepidemiology studies for drug safety by using Real-World Data. She started working in PMDA after graduating from the pharmaceutical college and trained in epidemiology at Kyoto University School of Public Health during her tenure.