Prof. Jun Tsuruta

Teaching Professor, J TSURUTA is a dental educator holding the Certified Medical Education Specialist, the Japan Society of Medical Education. He got D.D.S. in 1997 and Ph.D. and 2001 at Tokyo Medical and Dental University(TMDU). He started his career for dental education from participating to organize first published the Model Core Curriculum in Dental Education in Japan (FY2001). In early 2000s, he joined in activities to establish foundation of Japanese dental education system. In 2003, being dispatched to the UK as an overseas researcher for the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, he had studied variety of curriculum of European dental schools via the DentEd and ADEE meeting. He works for TMDU more than 20 years and has rich experience to design the curriculum to foster talented dentists. Especially, he has made huge contribution to introduce the first interprofessional education among Faculty of Medicine and Faculty of Dentistry, TMDU since 2010. He works to support the dental curriculum and to discuss the next generation of the curriculum. Currently he also acts as a director, Japanese Dental Education Association and a member of International Affairs committee, Japan Dental Association etc. to work with educators in Japan and the world.