2023 Volume 60 Issue 3 Pages 186-191
It was an honor to serve as the 4th Chairman of the Board of the Japanese Society for Pediatric Hematology/Oncology (JSPHO) from June 2018 to June 2020. I would like to highlight three of the most memorable events during my term: 1) Revision of the structure between the Board and the Committees for better performance, 2) continuing the “Lifetime Care and Support for Child, Adolescent, and Young Adult Cancer Survivors” project commissioned by the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare, including devising the seminar system, and 3) the 60th Annual Meeting 2018 in Kyoto, for which I served as the president of the meeting, as well as the chairman of the society.
The slogan of the meeting was “Children First! To a Brighter Future for the World: Lessons from Children Fighting Intractable Diseases.” A description of this concept has been retained in a section of our website, thanks to my successor, Dr. Shoichi Ohga, present Chairman of the Board of JSPHO.
I would also like to express my sincere gratitude to Tsugumichi Koshinaga, the president of the 64th Annual Meeting, and Masahiro Hirayama, the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of the Japanese Society and all the people involved for their kind support in planning this program and this article on the journal.
Last but not least, I would like to congratulate the JSPHO on its 10th anniversary.
