Message from the new Governor

After appointed to the post of governor, I was taken by surprise to know that governors have wide range of missions and now I’m feeling heavy responsibilities. However, as the three great predecessors, Drs. Kiyoshi Kurokawa, Shotai Kobayashi and Fumiaki Ueno, had set the right track, I believe that all I have to do is to go forward on the same track.

It has been 23 years since I became a member of ACP. Time flies! In those days, I was a co-chair of a committee of the Association of FJSIM (Fellows of Japanese Society of Internal Medicine) to encourage FJSIMs to join ACP, so Japanese Society of Internal Medicine (JSIM) was a close society with us in the beginning. I think ACP Japan Chapter and JSIM should cooperate in the future again because the purpose of the two organizations is the same. The first cooperation of the two entities was realized this year as a joint session for students and residents in the annual meeting of JSIM. I hope we will have chances to cooperate again and I will make efforts to achieve that aim.    

Thank you for everything you do for our chapter and for our profession.

All the best,

Kenji Maeda, MD FACP

Governor, American College of Physicians, Japan Chapter