Professor:
Shusuke HIRAGI, MD, MBA, PhD

Areas of Interest

Healthcare Management, Health Economics & Informatics

Self Intro

Drawing on my clinical experience as a nephrologist and hospital management experience through information systems management (as a hospital CIO), I am conducting research and education focused on management issues in the healthcare field. I am particularly interested in visualizing the 'value of healthcare' and aim to solve problems through information technology.

Work / Education History

• 2016 - 2021 Assistant Professor, Division of Medical IT and Administration Planning
• 2019 - 2021 Deputy Manager, Office for Hospital Strategic Planning, Kyoto University Hospital
• 2021 - 2024 Chief Information Officer and Assistant Hospital Director, Medical Research Institute KITANO Hospital, PIIF Tazuke-kofukai, Osaka, Japan
• 2024 - Professor, Institute of Business and Accounting, Kwansei Gakuin University

Degrees & Certifications

• Master of Business Administration (UMass Lowell)
• Ph.D in Medicine (Kyoto University)
• National Board of Medicine, Registration No. 500919
• Board Certified Nephrologist of the Japanese Society of Nephrology
• Registered Information Security Specialist

Publications

• Token Economy-Based Hospital Bed Allocation to Mitigate Information Asymmetry: Proof-of-Concept Study Through Simulation Implementation. (JMIR Formative Research 6 (3), e28877)
• Estimating the Net Utility Gains Among Donors and Recipients of Adult Living Donor Kidney Transplant. (Transplantation proceedings 51 (3), 676-683)
• The effect of model selection on cost-effectiveness research: a comparison of kidney function-based microsimulation and disease grade-based microsimulation in chronic kidney disease modeling. (BMC Med Inform Decis Mak. 2018 Nov 9;18(1):94.)

Lectures

Contact:

Email: shusuke-hiragi[at]kwansei.ac.jp