Undergraduate and Graduate School
2024 Best Teacher Award
The winners of the 2024 School of Medicine Best Teacher Award have been decided.
At Hyogo Medical University School of Medicine, we aim to provide high-quality, fulfilling classes, and every year we conduct a "Student Class Evaluation Survey." As a result, the Dean School of Medicine presents the "School of Medicine Best Teacher Award" to faculty members who are recognized for their contributions to improving education.
The recipients for 2024 are as follows:
*If the number of survey responses from students falls below the threshold, they will not be eligible.
*Affiliation will be as of the time of award in 2024.
Selection criteria for each category
- Lecture Section
- Determined based on the results of a course evaluation survey
- Short-term clinical training course and long-term course
- Determined based on the results of clinical training evaluation
Lecture Department (1st year)

Award recipient: Associate Professor Fumiaki Sugawara (Biology)
Lecture Department (2nd year)

Award recipient: Yasutsugu Yamanegi, Clinical Lecturer (Pathology and Pathological Diagnosis Division)
Lecture Department (3rd year)

Recipient: Professor Hiromitsu Kishimoto (Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery)
Lecture Department (4th year)

Award recipient: Dr. Shigeto Otani, Lecturer (Department of Data Science)
Clinical Training Short Course Section

Award recipient: Lecturer Satoshi Hikasa (Transfusion and Cell Therapy Center)
Clinical Training Long-term Course Section

Recipient: Yasuhiro Takeshima, Chair Professor (Department of Pediatrics)
In addition, 1st year lecturers
Professor Tsukamoto Kura, Chair of Department of Biochemistry
Department of Laboratory of Anatomy and Neuroscience Professor Takeshi Dai
Assistant Professor Yusuke Minato, Department of Laboratory of Anatomy Cell Biology
Associate Professor Seiji Maeda, Department of Laboratory of Anatomy Cell Biology
In addition, second-year lecturers
Professor of Department of Medical Education Yukiko Hasuike
Department of Immunology Kazushi Matsushita Lecturer
Professor Yoshifumi Kuroda, Department of Immunology
Department of Immunology Yoshifumi Yasuda Associate Professor of Education
In addition, 3rd year lecturers
Kazuhisa Hayashida, Clinical Lecturer Department of Neuropsychiatry
Professor Shinichi Yoshimura, Chair of Department of Neurosurgery
Department of Dermatology Yu Natsuaki Clinical Professor
Professor Takashi Kimura, Chair of Department of Neurology
In addition, 4th year lecturers
Kazuhiko Nakajima, Associate Professor Department of Infection Prevention and Control
Department of Legal Medicine Takuma Yamamoto Associate Professor
Professor Gen Nishio, Head of Department of Legal Medicine
Pathology, Department of Pathological Diagnosis, Associate Professor Ikuo Matsuda
In addition, clinical training short-term course department
Department of Genetic Medicine
Pathology
In addition, clinical training long-term course department
Lower gastrointestinal surgery
Psychiatry and Neurology