A Southern Medical University delegation headed by Vice President Yang Hai Wen visited President Hirofumi Makino at Okayama University on April 11.

Vice President Yang, President Makino and Dr. Yasutomo Nasu, Dean of the Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences discussed how the two universities are interacting with each other and how they will promote exchanges and the cooperative relationship between the two academic institutions in the future.

The delegation also visited medical facilities and other buildings of Okayama University
Hospital on Shikata campus. They talked with the hospital’s director Dr. Susumu Kanazawa, Dr. Aiji Ohtsuka, Dean Medical School and Dr. Yoshihiro Takeda, Dean of the Graduate School of Health Sciences and exchanged opinions about future cooperation with teaching staff at the undergraduate and graduate schools of medicine, dentistry and pharmaceutical sciences at Okayama University.

In 2011, the Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences at Okayama University concluded a faculty-level agreement with Zhujiang Hospital of Southern Medical University. In 2015, Okayama University signed an university-level agreement with Southern Medical University. In accordance with these agreements, the two universities conduct collaborative research, cohost seminars and symposiums, exchange students and teaching staff and interact with each other in various other ways. The two universities are planning to further expand exchanges in the future.