Mayuko Tamura
Medical Doctor, Pediatrician, PhD
Renens VD
Summary
I am a Japanese pediatrician with strong background both of clinical practice and scientific research. I experienced a lot in practice fields including general pediatrics, neonatal unit, and endocrinology. I have been taking care of numerous patients with from common diseases to chronic rare displeases. Along to the clinical career, I have piled up scientific careers in lab publishing achievements in both of scientific journal or domestic or international conferences.
Overview
11
11
years of professional experience
10
10
years of post-secondary education
7
7
Certifications
3
3
Languages
Work History
External Advisor as Pediatrician PhD
University of Tokyo
Tokyo (Full remote)
06.2020 - Current
- Take a main responsibility to publish some scientific articles about pediatric endocrinology.
- Supervising junior doctors and PhD student in order to accomplish their own goal.
- Developed team communications and information for meetings..
- Resolved problems, improved operations and provided exceptional service.
Pediatrician
La terre la mere
Lausanne
05.2020 - Current
- Established preventive health practices in alignment with developmental markers and family health history.
- Provide medical information to Japanese mothers, who tend to be isolated living in foreign countries as a volunteer in La Tere La mere, which I established in 2020 in Switzerland.
- Worked with obese pediatric patients and family members to devise health plans encompassing nutrition, exercise and alteration of eating habits.
- Provide consultation for each mother who would like to ask me about medical concerns or children's developmental concerns.
Guest Researcher
Dept. of Diabetes & Circadian Rhythms, Nestle Institute of Health Science
Lausanne
03.2017 - 02.2018
- Streamlined research processes to meet tight deadlines for multiple projects.
- Collaborated with leadership team to identify relevant questions and determine best methods of collection.
- Requested or acquired equipment or supplies necessary for projects.
- Gathered and organized information for research purposes.
- Wrote research papers, reports and summaries regarding diabetes, AMPK metabbolism.
Consultant Pediatrician
Department of Pediatrics, The University of Tokyo Hospital
Tokyo
10.2014 - 03.2016
- Diagnosed and treated patients of emergency restrict.
- Established preventive health practices in alignment with developmental markers and family health history.
- Monitored practice budget closely to prepare financial reports for monthly board of directors meetings.
- Collaborated with lab and radiology to order necessary services for pediatric care.
- Diagnosed and treated patients suffering from chronic conditions.
- Transfer patients' date to the lab conducting clinical research especially in pediatric endocrinology.
- Interviewed patients concerning physical complaints, discussed symptoms, asked questions and suggested treatment options.
- Monitored childhood developmental markers such as weight, height and blood pressure to screen for abnormalities
- Advised patients, parents or guardians and community members concerning activity, hygiene and disease prevention.
- Developed team communications and information for meetings.
Pediatrician
Department of Pediatrics, Toranomon Hospital
Tokyo
04.2013 - 04.2014
- Endocrinology and metabolism, neuro-oncology (pituitary adenoma, craniopharyngioma), common diseases (pneumonia, enteritis, Kawasaki diseases, asthma, ketotic hypoglycemia, malnutrition etc).
- Night shift (18:00-7:00) once/week
- Established preventive health practices in alignment with developmental markers and family health history.
- Diagnosed and treated patients suffering from acute or chronic conditions.
- Volunteered at community health clinic to provide high quality care for low-income and indigent patients.
- Monitored post-operative recovery and educated patients on at-home recovery.
- Focus on treatment of endocrinology and metabolism diseases such as diabetes type 1/2, precocious/delayed puberty, obesity, growth hormone deficiency dwarfism, Cushing disease/syndrome, rickets, etc.
- Pre/postoperative care of intracranial endocrinology tumor patients with extremely careful control for water, ion, glucose and other nutrition factors.
- Treated newborns of premature birth, providing close care and pulmonary intervention to promote health and growth.
- Supervise and give lectures for junior doctors.
Pediatrician
Department of Pediatrics, the University of Tokyo
Tokyo
10.2012 - 03.2013
- Diagnosed and treated patients suffering from chronic conditions.
- Rotate units of Endocrinology and metabolism, nephrology, immunology and allergology, hemato-oncology, neurology, cardiology, and emergency medicine.
- Lecturer for junior residents, medical interns, students, nurses, and other co-medicals upon clinical scenes.
- Clinical trials for developing new treatments or cures for rare diseases.
- Experimental research for hereditary endocrine and metabolism diseases (see Research Experiences).
- Night-shift 2/week.
Neonatologist
Department of Neonatology, Tokyo Metropolitan Bokutoh Hospital
Tokyo
04.2012 - 09.2012
- Learned new skills and applied to daily tasks to improve efficiency and productivity.
- Resuscitation and life supports, infectious controls for extremely low birth weight babies (>22-week gestational age,
- Daily nutrition control for premature babies.
- Investigation and treatment for neonatal complications.
- Successful planning for discharging.
- Educate parents to take care of their babies after discharging.
- Follow up babies after discharging
- Night-shift and weekend-shift 1-2/week
Pediatrician
Department of Pediatrics, Kitano Hospital
Osaka
04.2011 - 03.2012
- Emergency medicine, general pediatrics, pediatric hematology, neurology, endocrinology and metabolism, infection control, nephrology, cardiology, neonatology, hematology, oncology and immunology.
- Planning effective approaches to diseases, made a diagnosis, decided a treatment and prescription, and directed train junior resident doctors and co-medical staffs to execute the treatments.
- Certification in Neonatal Cardio-Pulmonary Resuscitation (NCPR) training.
- Supervise of junior doctors.
- Conduct case studies with laboratory experiments and publish the achievements.
- Nigh shift and weekend shift 2/week
Junior Resident Doctor
Matsushita Memorial Hospital
Osaka
04.2009 - 03.2011
- Rotation in departments of gastroenterology, endocrinology and metabolism, respiratory medicine, hematology, oncology, neurology, cardiology, surgery, neurosurgery, emergency medicine, anesthesiology, pediatrics, psychology, public health care, community-based clinical care, and radiology.
- Teamed with other physicians, specialists and health care providers to provide well-rounded care for complex cases.
- Evaluated patient histories, complaints and current symptoms.
- Administered high level of care to patients using active listening and open-ended questioning.
- Participated as monitoring physician in clinical trials of medications and treatments.
- Interviewed patients concerning physical complaints, discussed symptoms, asked questions and suggested treatment options.
- Treated and monitored care of geriatric patients at local long-term care facility.
- Conuct case studies and publish as an original case report in a peer-review journal.
- Volunteered at community health clinic to provide high quality care for low-income and indigent patients.
- Night-shift 1/week
Education
Medical Doctor - Medicine
Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine
Kyoto, Japan 04.2003 - 03.2009
PhD - Pediatric Endocrinology
The University of Tokyo
Tokyo, Japan 04.2014 - 03.2018
Certification
- Board Certified Pediatrician(12-033936) renewed
English-Experts
I speak and write excellent English in both of daily conversations and scientific occasion. I have written numbers of scientific articles in English published in peer-reviewed journals. I had several chances to speech in the international conferences. I had invited talk in Research Unit in CHUV and UNIL, Lausanne Switzerland. I worked in Nestle Institute of Health Science in Lausanne Switzerland, in which I achieved smooth communication with all the colleagues and bosses in English. I will take OET soon, to obtain the grade B.
Publication
Original articles (Peer-reviewed)
S Abali, M Tamura, A Bereket. Hereditary vitamin D-resistant rickets: a report of four cases with two novel variants in the VDR gene and successful use of intermittent intravenous calcium via a peripheral route. J Pediatric Endocrinology and Metabolism. 28; 33 (4): 557-562 (2020).
Y Oda, M Tamura, S Kitanaka. A 12-year-old girl with familial dysalbuminemic hyperthyroxinemia. Pediatrics International. 61(5):520-522,2019 (2019).
M Tamura, M Ishizawa, T Isojima, S Özen, A Oka, M Makishima, S Kitanaka. Functional analyses of a novel missense and other mutations of the vitamin D receptor in association with alopecia. Scientific Reports. 7: 5102. (2017).
M Itoh, J Tomio, S Toyokawa, M Tamura, T Isojima, S Kitanaka, Y Kobayashi. Vitamin D-Deficient Rickets in Japan. Global Pediatric Health. 4; 1-5. (2017).
M Tamura, T Isojima, T Kasama, R Mafune, K Shimoda, H Yasudo, H Tanaka, C Takahashi, A Oka, S Kitanaka. Novel DHCR7 mutation in a case of Smith-Lemli-Opitz syndrome, showing 46,XY disorder of sex development. Human Genome Variation. 4, 17015. (2017).
M Tamura, T Isojima, M Kawashima, H Yoshida, K Yamamoto, T Kitaoka, N Namba, A Oka, K Ozono, K Tokunaga, S Kitanaka. Detection of Hereditary 1,25-Hydroxyvitamin D-Resistant Rickets Caused by Uniparental Disomy of Chromosome 12 Using Genome-Wide Single Nucleotide Polymorphism Array. PLoS One Jul 8;10(7): e0131157 (2015).
T Isojima, M Ishizawa, K Yoshimura, M Tamura, S Hirose, M Makishima, S Kitanaka. Hereditary 1,25-Dihydroxyvitamin D-resistant rickets (HVDRR) caused by a VDR mutation: a novel mechanism of dominant inheritance. Bone Reports 2:68-73 (2015).
M Tsuchihashi (maiden name), S Nano, W Fuji, Y Kasamatsu, R Nakao, K Yokoyama. (A pulmonary cancer case presenting resistance for chemotherapy.) Shojinkai Igakushi (1):63-4 (2010).
T Yoshida, M Horinaka, M Takara, M Tsuchihashi (maiden name), N Mukai, M Wakada, T Sakai. Combination of isoliquiritigenin and tumor necrosis factor-related apoptosis-inducing ligand induces apoptosis in colon cancer HT29 cells. Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine 13: 281-7 (2008).
Book Chapters
M Tamura. Cortisol, in 小児臨床検査ガイド (Pediatric Clinical Examination Guide). M Mizuguchi, A Oka, K Onai, Editor. 2017. Bunko-do. p. 282-285.
90.1. M Tamura. DHEA-S, in 小児臨床検査ガイド (Pediatric Clinical Examination Guide). M Mizuguchi, A Oka, K Onai, Editor. 2017. Bunko-do. p. 286-290.
Invited talk
M Tamura. Molecular cell biology study for hereditary dihydroxyvitamin D resistant rickets and anti-diabetic drug based on AMPK. DOHaD Research Unit in CHUV and UNIL. Lausanne, May, 2019.
M Tamura, T Isojima, S Kitanaka. (An HVDRR case caused by uniparental disomy of chromosome 12 : Utility of SNP array.) Spring Seminar of Pediatric Endocrinology 2014. Osaka, June 2014.
Awards&Honors
2016/04-2018/03 Research Fellowship for Young Scientists, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, JSPS
2016/12 Research Encouragement Prize, Department of Pediatrics Alumni Association, The University of Tokyo School of Medicine
2016/02 Best Presentation Awards, the 35th Study Group Working on Pediatric Growth
2013/10 Best Presentation Awards, The 47th Annual Scientific Meeting of the Japanese Society for Pediatric Endocrinology
2013/09 ESPE 9th Joint Meeting Travel Awards; Nordiscience Awards, Japanese Society for Pediatric Endocrinology, Novo Nordisk Pharma
Reference
Available on request
Professional Societies
The Japan Pediatric Society
The Japanese Society of Pediatric Endocrinology
The Japan Endocrine Society
Timeline
- Board Certified Supervisor of Pediatrics (expected)
08-2022
External Advisor as Pediatrician PhD
University of Tokyo
06.2020 - Current
Pediatrician
La terre la mere
05.2020 - Current
- Board Certified Pediatrician(12-033936) renewed
03-2019
Guest Researcher
Dept. of Diabetes & Circadian Rhythms, Nestle Institute of Health Science
03.2017 - 02.2018
- Board Certified Pediatrician (12-033936)
12-2014
Consultant Pediatrician
Department of Pediatrics, The University of Tokyo Hospital
10.2014 - 03.2016
PhD - Pediatric Endocrinology
The University of Tokyo
04.2014 - 03.2018
Pediatrician
Department of Pediatrics, Toranomon Hospital
04.2013 - 04.2014
Pediatrician
Department of Pediatrics, the University of Tokyo
10.2012 - 03.2013
Neonatologist
Department of Neonatology, Tokyo Metropolitan Bokutoh Hospital
04.2012 - 09.2012
- Neonatal Cardio-Pulmonary Resuscitation Provider (NCPR)
06-2011
Pediatrician
Department of Pediatrics, Kitano Hospital
04.2011 - 03.2012
- Pediatric Advanced Life Support Provider (AHA-PALS)
01-2011
- Immediate Cardiac Life Support Provider (ICLS)
05-2009
Junior Resident Doctor
Matsushita Memorial Hospital
04.2009 - 03.2011
- Physician’s License, Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare in Japan (479671)
04-2009
Medical Doctor - Medicine
Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine
04.2003 - 03.2009