The mission of Tohoku University Hospital is “Providing advanced medical care with kindness.” This entails offering the best possible treatment while empathizing with patients, confronting all diseases including refractory and rare diseases through the utilization of advanced technologies, and striving towards the realization of sustainable medical care that continues into the future for the well-being of all individuals.

Established in 1915 as the Tohoku Imperial University College of Medicine Hospital, Tohoku University Hospital has contributed to the development of medical care in Japan for over a century. At the same time, we have taken responsibility for the provision of advanced medical care and support for regional medical care centering on the Tohoku region. Currently, while the Tohoku region is experiencing a rise in the number of elderly people and a declining population, there is an increasing diversity in the enhancement of medical care and societal demand, and the environment surrounding medical care is in a period of transition. There is a need for Tohoku University Hospital to respond precisely to these changes, and attempt to continuously improve regional medical care through the provision of advanced medical care and fostering personnel.

Tohoku University Hospital is the one and only Designated Special Functioning Hospital in Miyagi Prefecture, and in addition to providing advanced and safe medical care we are committed to its development, education and training. Furthermore, as the only Clinical Research Core Hospital and only Designated Core Hospital for Cancer Genomic Medicine in the Tohoku region, we promote world-class clinical research, drug discovery and medical equipment development. In the year 2024 Tohoku University was also certified as a University for International Research Excellence. In keeping with the fact that internationally top-class research results are hoped of us as a comprehensive university, we are required to perform our duties as a hospital capable of contributing to the creation of innovative medical care.

Since many roles are thus expected of Tohoku University Hospital, while placing the provision of medical care empathizing with patients as our base, we will provide advanced medical care, foster healthcare professionals with a high level of technical skills and sense of ethics, create new medical care, and steadily perform the mission of the Hospital to contribute to regional medical care throughout the Tohoku region. Our entire personnel will bring together their skills and aim for further progress as a hospital that is trusted by society.

We sincerely look forward to your ongoing understanding and support.