Dr. Naoki Ikegami

Internationally recognized expert on health policy, long-term care, and pharmacoeconomics

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Naoki Ikegami, MD, PhD, MA, is professor and chair of the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Keio School of Medicine in Japan, from which he received his MD and PhD. He also received a Master of Arts degree in health services studies with Distinction from Leeds University (United Kingdom).

Dr. Ikegami's research areas are health policy, long-term care and pharmacoeconomics. His publications include "The Art of Balance in Health Policy - Maintaining Japan's Low-Cost Egalitarian System" (Cambridge University Press, 1998) with John C. Campbell, "Quality Life Evaluation Handbook for Clinicians" (Igakushoin, 2001) in Japanese with Shunichi Fukuhara et al, "Measuring the quality of long-term care in institutional and community settings" in "Measuring Up - Improving Health Care Performance in OECD Countries" (OECD, 2002) with John Hirdes and Iain Carpenter.

During 1990-1991, he was a visiting professor at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School and Medical School, and has continued to be a Senior Fellow at the Wharton. He is a board member of interRAI (a non-profit international consortium of researchers and clinicians focused on care planning instruments), Priorities in Health Care, and the Japanese Society on Hospital Administration. He has served as consultant to the WHO and the World Bank, and has also sat on various national and state government committees.