Sapporo Medical University

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Sapporo Medical University

札幌医科大学

The building of Sapporo Medical University

Former names

| Hokkaidō Women's Medical College
Type| public
Established| 1950
President| Taiji Tsukamoto[1]
Students| 1016 (as of 2006)[2]
Location|

Sapporo

Hokkaidō

Japan

Campus| urban
Nickname| SMU
Website| www.web.sapmed.ac.jp

Sapporo Medical University (札幌医科大学, Sapporo ika daigaku) is a public university in Chūō-ku, Sapporo, Hokkaidō, Japan. The precursor of the school was founded in 1945, and it was chartered as a university in 1950.

## History

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The Hokkaidō Women's Medical College (北海道立女子医学専門学校, Hokkaidōritsu joshi igaku semmon gakkō), the precursor of the university, was founded in 1945. The Sapporo Medical University was established in 1950 with the School of Medicine, and the Graduate School of Medicine was also founded in 1956,[3] as part of Hokkaidō's development project.

In 1968, Jurō Wada, one of the pioneers of heart surgery, performed a heart transplant for the first time in Japan, which was later accused of a failure in the Wada Heart Transplant Incident.[4] The Sapporo Medical University Hygiene Junior College was established in 1983, and it was reorganized and incorporated to its current School of Health Science in 1993.

## Overview

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The University has a hospital in affiliation, called Sapporo Medical University Hospital, and has performed a number of surgeries including organ transplant. It hosts the Bilomedical Research Center, the Marine Biological Institute, Biomedical Center and Animal Research Center. The university also has some laboratories and institutes which affiliated with Hokkaidō University and Otaru University of Commerce.

## Notable alumni

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* Hisashi Kazama \- a politician
* Junichi Watanabe \- a novelist, a winner of Naoki Prize

## References

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1. ^ "Sapporo Medical University".
2. ^ university outline in 2006 Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine (pdf file)
3. ^ GOTOJP.NET Archived 2007-12-03 at the Wayback Machine
4. ^ "Weakly Taranco". Archived from the original on 2006-05-09. Retrieved 2007-12-24.

## External links

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* Sapporo Medical University official website

Authority control databases

International|

* ISNI
* VIAF

National|

* United States
* Japan
* Czech Republic

Academics|

* CiNii

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