Anesthesiology and the Japanese Society of Anesthesiologists: the science is amazing.

摘要

The science is amazing, the hosts are very gracious, and the food is incredible!" This was the response one of us (J.C.E.) received over dinner from a. well-known anesthesiologist and scientist from Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, when asked what got into his head to fly all the way from the East Coast of the United States to Japan for a 5-day visit. Similar comments, emphasizing the same three reasons and usually in the same order, have been expressed from more than a dozen gifted American investigators in the past few years. Not surprisingly, most of these individuals have close collaborative ties with Japanese investigators, sharing students, and fellows and in obtaining joint research funding. The research laboratory of Dr. Eisenach, for example, includes a faculty member who is a Japanese citizen, two Japanese fellows (one an anesthesiologist and the other a Ph.D. scientist), and the laboratory collaborates actively with Hideaki Obata, M.D., from Gunma University Graduate School of Medicine, Maebashi, Gunma, Japan.