The 145th Annual Meeting of the Pharmaceutical Society of Japan (Fukuoka)

Organizer: Tachi Tomoya (Grad. Sch. Phar., Nagoya City Univ.), Yoshihiro Noguchi (Gifu Pharm. Univ.)

In Japan, educational reforms utilizing AI and data science aimed at realizing Society 5.0 are underway. In healthcare, there is a need to widely utilize AI and data science to train pharmacists and pharmaceutical researchers, enabling them to leverage digital transformation (DX) to discover, develop, evaluate, and effectively use pharmaceuticals, thereby improving public health and providing seamless, high-quality healthcare. Currently, compared with other countries, few educational institutions in Japan offer systematic training in the knowledge and skills required to produce competent data scientists, and it is unclear whether training programs are sufficiently aligned with industry needs, particularly for data scientists who can link research in healthcare to social implementation. Against this backdrop, developing infrastructure to train data scientists capable of leading the medical DX era is urgent. In this symposium, pioneering researchers engaged in medical AI applications and healthcare data science education and research will discuss their current efforts.