Business Address: Miyagi Disaster Mental Health Care Center, Takeda Sendai Building 3F,
2-18-21 Honcho, Aoba-ku, Sendai city, Miyagi 980-0014, Japan
Phone: (+81)-22-263-6615
Fax: (+81)-22-263-6750
Professional Experiences
Clinical Associate Professor, Tohoku Medical and Pharmaceutical University
(2021-present)
President, Miyagi Disaster Mental Health Care Center (2021-present)
Vice President, Miyagi Disaster Mental Health Care Center (2018-2021)
Director, Miyagi Disaster Mental Health Care Center (2012-2018)
Medical Staff of Child Psychiatrics Department, Tohoku Welfare University Sendan Hospital
(2008-2012)
Medical Staff of Psychiatrics Department, Miyagi Psychiatric Center (2005-2008)
Hokkaido Ujiie Clinic for Psychosomatic Children (2003-2005)
Resident of Pediatrics Department, Aomori Prefectural Central Hospital (2001-2003)
Academic Background
Doctor of Medicine, Major: Public Health Tohoku University Graduate School of
Medicine, Miyagi, Japan (2008-2013)
Bachelor of Medicine Hirosaki University School of Medicine, Aomori, Japan
(1995-2001)
Specialization
Board Certificated Physician for Public Health and Social Medicine (2017)
Japanese Designated Child and Adolescent Psychiatry License (2015)
Certified Child Psychiatrists of the Japan Association of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
(2008)
Certified Psychiatrists of the Japanese Board of Psychiatry (2007)
Japanese Designated Psychiatrist License (2007)
Japanese Medical License Registration (2001)
Awards and Recognition
The 9th Congress of The Asian Society for
Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Allied Professions (ASCAPAP), Best Poster Presenter(2017)
Practice Incentive Award, The Japanese Society for Child and Adolescent
Psychiatry, Japan (2013)
Research Incentive Award, The Japanese Society for Social Psychiatry,
Japan (2016)
Publication
Naru Fukuchi, Eugen Koh. Children’s survivor guilt after the Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami: A case report. Educational
Psychology in Practice, DOI:10.1080/02667363.2022.2030674
Psychoeducation for children in a psychiatric ward in the immediate aftermath of the 2011 earthquake and tsunami in Japan. Naru Fukuchi.
Intervention-Jouranl of Mental Health and Psychological Support in Conflict Affected Areas. 18(1), 85-91, 2020.
Single-day psychoeducational
program for children after the Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami of 2011. Naru Fukuchi, Eugen Koh, Shusaku Chiba, Naomi Matsuura. International Journal of Emergency Mental Health and
Human Resilience. 21(4), 423, 2019.
Five Years after the 2011
Tohoku Earthquake and Tsunami: Disaster Psychiatry. World Child & Psychiatry. Naru Fukuchi. WPA, Child and Adolescent psychiatry section’s Official Journals, Issue 10, June
2016, 10-12, 2016. http://www.wpanet.org/uploads/Sections/Child_and_Adolescent_Psychiatry/WORLD_CAP_June2016.pdf
Association of Marital Status
with the Incidence of Suicide: A Population-Based Cohort Study in Japan (Miyagi Cohort Study). Naru Fukuchi, Masako Kakizaki, Yumi Sugawara, Fumiya Tanji, Ikue Watanabe, Akira Fukao,
Ichiro Tsuji. Journal of Affective Disorders, 150(3), 879-85, 2013.
The psychosocial impact of
disaster on people with developmental disabilities. Naru Fukuchi. Journal of Policy and Practice in Intellectual Disabilities, 10(2), 122,2013.
The Ohsaki Cohort 2006 Study:
design of study and profile of participants at baseline. Kuriyama S, Nakaya N, Ohmori-Matsuda K, Shimazu T, Kikuchi N, Kakizaki M, Sone T, Sato F, Nagai M, Sugawara Y, Tomata Y, Akhter
M, Higashiguchi M, Fukuchi N, Takahashi H, Hozawa A, Tsuji I. J Epidemiol, 20(3), 253-8, 2010.
Factors associated with
psychological distress in a community-dwelling Japanese population: the Ohsaki Cohort 2006 Study. Kuriyama S, Nakaya N, Ohmori-Matsuda K, Shimazu T, Kikuchi N, Kakizaki M, Sone T, Sato
F, Nagai M, Sugawara Y, Akhter M, Higashiguchi M, Fukuchi N, Takahashi H, Hozawa A, Tsuji I. J Epidemiol, 19(6), 294-302, 2009.
A case presenting with
hydrocephalus and posterior fossa subdural effusion. Riki Hosoya, Kensuke Murakami, Noboru Takahashi, Yasuhiro Suzuki, Takahiro Tomita, Naru
Fukuchi, Wataru Abo, Michiharu Nishijima..No Shinkei Geka, 31(9), 989-93, 2003.