2005 Volume 1 Issue 3 Pages 322-330
A pathological assessment plays an essential role in the risk assessment of chemicals. Because such an assessment depends on the observation-based evaluation by individual researchers, high skill and sufficient experience of the researchers are requested to maintain the accuracy and reliability of the assessment. Education and training for toxicologic pathologists are thus very important but has not been sufficiently being performed in Japan. In order to overcome this, Dr. Akihiko Maekawa, Director of the Sasaki Institute, Sasaki Foundation, established the Sasaki Institute Education Meeting Series for Toxicologic Pathology of Laboratory Animal in 1993. The series continued for 15 years to educate and train early- and mid-carrier toxicologic pathologists of academia, industry and regulatory agencies up to year 2005. This article was written by Dr. Isao Narama, Professor of Pathology, Setsunan University who contributed to the series and is by himself educating and training young people, to introduce the importance of the education and training of toxicologic pathologists for the risk assessment/management of chemicals.
<Abstract written by Dr. Dai Nakae (Department of Pathology, Sasaki Institute, Sasaki Foundation), the organizer of this special program of the journal>
