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.

We are pleased to invite Dr. Satoko Nachi, a physician who is active as a representative of the NPO Myanmar Family Clinic and Garden. After graduating from Dokkyo Medical University, Dr. Nachi gained clinical experience as an internist at Nippon Medical School. In 2002, at the age of 39, she became the fifth Japanese doctor to join Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) and experienced various medical aid activities in many developing countries including Border of Thailand, Myanmar, and Jordan. In 2010, she started a mobile  clinic in  Ayeyarwaddy  region of Myanmar, and up to the present, she has been   in rural areas where is No Doctor : main Activities are mobile  clinic, health education, personal hygiene guidance and community organic  vegetable garden guidance. In the same year, she was elected as executive director of MSF Japan Branch. Dr. Nachi's achievements in supporting the health of the Myanmar people are significant, and she has received numerous awards.

Everyone is welcome to join us in a hearty discussion.

Topics

1) Personal Background and Vision

Her vision and mission for the future, the background/ triggers that led her to embrace them, role models, her decisions at multiple career crossroads, and difficulties she experienced along the way and how she managed them

2) Current / future activities

Current activities, future goals, and career steps

3) Mindset

What she keeps in mind when working in international medical downstream, her beliefs and philosophy, her mindset and decision-making when faced with difficulties

4) Advice for Students/ Healthcare Professionals

Message to students/healthcare professionals who aspire to work internationally or in areas of health poverty, what mindset they should have and what they should be working on/experiencing now