Keynote Speakers
Professor Brian Dolan
OBE, FFNMRCSI, FRSA, RMN, RGN
Brian Dolan is a dual-qualified nurse whose clinical background is in emergency and mental health nursing and has worked as an Executive Director and also Clinical Director of several emergency departments. He is the author/editor of seven books on emergency care, education and leadership. His ‘Clinician’s Survival Guide to ward leadership and management’ was published by Elsevier in August 2024, and he is working on a book on addressing deconditioning provisionally title ‘EndPJParalysis TODAY’ and which will be published in 2025.
He originated the global social movements #Last1000Days, to value patients’ time, and #EndPJparalysis, to encourage patients to get up, dressed and moving to reduce their risk of deconditioning while in hospital. He is the first nurse to become Honorary President of AGILE – the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy network for physios working with older people and holds Full and Honorary Professorships at Coventry University, Bond University, SE Queensland, and Salford University, Manchester.
Brian was voted one of the 20 most influential people in the 70-year history of the UK’s National Health Service in 2018 and in the Queen’s 2019 New Year’s Honours List, and was awarded an OBE in the ‘For Services to Nursing and Emergency Care’.
Jun
Sasaki
Yushoukai Medical Corporation CEO/Chairman
Graduated from Tsukuba University (1998).
General Practitioner and Gastroenterologist in Mitsui Memorial Hospital (1998-2003) Certified physician of the Japanese Society of Internal Medicine (2003).
CEO at Yushoukai Medical Corp, the largest group of home care clinics (24 clinics, 170 doctors, 9,000 home care patients) in Japan.
Expert Member, Regulatory Reform Promotion Council, Cabinet Office Board Member, Ageing Asia Innovation Forum
Asia-Pacific Eldercare Innovation Awards, Best Home Care Operator, Best Innovation Implementation 2 category: grand prize winner, 2016
Forbes Wellness Awards in the Publicness category: grand prize winner, 2017
Asia-Pacific Eldercare Innovation Awards Best improvement in Health Outcomes category: grand prize winner,2017/global influencer, 2018
Winner of the 2nd Nippon Management Foundation Award (Clinic Category), The Nippon Management Foundation, 2021
Awarded the 2nd Iwasa Prize for SDGs Japan Scholarship by the Iwasa Foundation for Education and Culture (medical care category), 2023
Asia-Pacific Eldercare Innovation Awards: Super Ageing Japan Outstanding Entrepreneur of the year, 2023
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