ISHIMURA Atsushi, Ph.D. / Senior Assistant Professor

The Center for Clinical Pharmacology and Pharmaceutics

Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences

Research Topics

1. Pharmacotherapy Management Protocol

2. Type-2 Diabetes

3. Hospital Pharmacist

Treatment of diabetes mainly consists of a drug regimen and requires patients to manage medications by themselves at home for extended periods of time. As such, in order to avoid treatment discontinuation, it is important to understand several factors such as the age of the patient, living environment and social background to better explore therapies suitable for individual patients. Therefore, hospital pharmacists must provide not only guidance on medications/injection techniques, but also appropriate medication assistance according to the patients’ level of understanding and their medical treatment.
Therefore, my study is a pharmacotherapy management protocol search intended to improve medication adherence and treatment effects for patients with diabetes.

Representative Publications

1. Okabe Y, Ishimura A, Watanabe F, Kamei M, A survey on experience of hospital based education programs for patients with typeⅡ diabetes in Japan, The Journal of Community Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, 12(1), 46-52 (2020).

2. Ishimura A, Watanabe F, Fukui M, Suzuki R, Kamei M, Design and implementation by hospital pharmacists of a pharmacotherapy management protocol for outpatients with type-2 diabetes, The Journal of Community Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, 11(1), 35-43 (2019).

3. Ishimura A, Watanabe F, Fukui M, Kamei M, How type II diabetes outpatients expect hospital pharmacists to be involved, Japanese Journal of Pharmaceutical and Diabetes, 7(2), 132-139 (2018).