Professor Emeritus
Keio University
Naoki Ikegami is Professor Emeritus at Keio University, Tokyo, and Adjunct Professor, Kurume University, Kurume. He was Chair of the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Keio School of Medicine, from which he received his MD and PhD, and Professor at St Luke’s International University School of Public Health (2016~21). He also received a Master of Arts degree in health services studies with Distinction from Leeds University (United Kingdom). During 1990-1991, he was a visiting professor at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School and Medical School and has continued to be a Senior Fellow at Wharton. He is a founding member of interRAI (a non-profit international consortium of researchers and clinicians focused on care planning instruments), and served as a consultant to the WHO and the World Bank. He has been President of the Japan Society of Healthcare Administration and of the Japan Health Economics Association. He has sat on various national and state government committees. His research areas are health policy, long-term care and pharmacoeconomics.