Professor Mitsunori Miyashita
Visiting Senior Research Fellow
Home institution/role: Professor of Palliative Nursing, Health Sciences, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai, Japan.
Dr Mitsunori Miyashita is a visiting senior research fellow who is here with us from October 2017 to March 2018. His fellowship is supported by the Fund for the Promotion of Joint International Research from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, with his project titled “Development of a quality evaluation system for the palliative care for cancer patients.” Dr Miyashita’s primary interests are the quality evaluation of the provision of palliative care, especially on post-bereavement surveys, and the development/utilisation of outcome measures in palliative care research. He has authored and co-authored in more than 200 peer-review articles and textbooks.