Dr. Joyce Trompeta is selected as a Fulbright U.S. Scholar for 2024-2025
The UCSF Department of Surgery would like to congratulate Dr. Joyce Trompeta as being selected as a Fulbright U.S. Scholar in Japan for 2024-2025
Dr. Joyce Trompeta, Associate Professor at the University of California, San Francisco, Department of Surgery / School of Medicine, has received a Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program award in Public Health to Japan for the 2024-2025 academic year from the U.S. Department of State and the Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board. This distinguished achievement represents her second tenure as a Fulbright U.S. Scholar.
Japan performs 90% living organ transplantation. The country has the highest life expectancy in the world, the highest rate of kidney failure, and, significantly, the lowest consent rate for organ donation; soon, Japan will be faced with a scarcity of resources to support its chronic disease population as demand for dialysis increases. Dr. Trompeta will conduct a cross-sectional study that will provide new knowledge on attitudes, knowledge, and beliefs about organ donation and transplantation, contributing to the quality of life for Japan’s aging population. Comparisons will be examined between younger and older generations. Results are expected to give rise to future partnerships among researchers and clinicians in the US and Japan to develop effective and culturally sensitive programs to raise awareness about organ donation and begin to see an increase in organ donation consent rates. Dr. Trompeta has pioneered the “Kumamoto Model,” a strategic plan to increase deceased organ donations in Kumamoto Prefecture in Japan, and the slogan she has created is “Extend Life. Do the Honor. Be an Organ Donor.”
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Dr. Joyce Trompeta bio: https://transplantsurgery.ucsf.edu/meet-the-team/nurse-practitioners/joyce-trompeta-rn-phd-pnp.aspx
Additional resources:
https://www.fulbrightprogram.org/
https://www.fulbright.jp/eng/