ABOUT US

ABOUT US

Founded in 1988 as Surgical Infection Society of Japan (SIS-J), Japan Society for Surgical Infection (JSSI) became an Academic society in 2002, incorporated in 2007.

MISSION

The mission of the JSSI is to promote the generation, application and archiving of research in surgical infections and disseminate this knowledge worldwide, promote the mutual understanding and friendship of the member and other foreign Societies.

JSSI is dedicated to providing its members and the scientific community with following:

1. Events: General Assembly and Academic Meeting
2. Publications: Journal of the JSSI, Articles, Book and Research Documents
3. Investigation and Research around the surgical infections
4. Relations in Japanese Society and Worldwide
5. Others

BUREAU

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JSSI Committees

Standing

1. CERTIFICATION COMMITTEE
   (Certification of Doctors on the Surgical Infection Control and validation of Acredited Learning Institutes)
   The purpose of the JSSI Certification Committee is to validate surgeons in the control of perioperative infection.
   The committee also intends to validate learning institutes, which should have be evaluated by their education program on surgical infection control.
   The committee intends to accomplish this by developing evaluation program in compliance with surgical resident education programs and implementation guidelines in consideration of Best Practices.
   
2. EDITORIAL COMMITTEE
   The Editorial Committee shall be responsible for the management and oversight of all publications of the Society. The Committee shall candidates for the editorial leadership. It shall encourage nominations of worthy persons for Society Awards, annually select a recipient for each award, and recognize the recipient at an appropriate event during Annual Meeting of the JSSI. Any active Member may make nominations for the awards according to the guidelines published annually. The awards are made solely to recognize outstanding contributions to the clinical report and the sciences of surgical infections.
   
   
3. EDUCATION COMMITTEE
   The Education Committee works to support Surgical Infection education. The Education Committee undertakes a broad range of projects and activities in support of the Surgical Infection education medical and related community, such as curriculum studies, resources for educators, and conference-related activities.
   
   
4. FINANCE COMMITTEE
   The role of the Finance Committee is to provide a preliminary examination of the annual budget, to include items such as the publications budget and Annual Meeting expenditures.
   
   
5. GUIDELINE COMMITTEE
   The Guideline Committee shall be update and inform about recent developments, changes and issues in the guideline area which is affecting the daily work and correlated scientific fields. It shall encourage the generation of comments or position papers related to draft guidelines.
   
   
6. INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS COMMITTEE
   The International Relations Committee shall be charged with enhancing communications with the international surgical infection community by (1) attracting international members; (2) interacting with foreign Surgical Infection Societies; and (3) initiating scientific activities in surgical infections around the world. In addition, the committee is expected promote a Panel Discussion in the 3rd SIS/SIS-E Joint Congress.
   
   
7. GENERAL COMMITTEE
   The General Committee shall make recommendations regarding the composition of JSSI Boards and committee.
   
   
8. PROSPECTIVE CLINICAL TRIALs COMMITTEE
   The Prospective Clinical Trials Committee shall be responsible for the promotion of the Society initiative. The Prospective Clinical Trials Committee should actively promotes individual clinical expertise as well as prospective and retrospective research on all aspects concerning surgical infections, as neither alone is enough.
   
   
9. QUALITY and SAFTY COMMITTEE
   The Quality and Safety Committee shall approach to improving the quality and safe delivery of surgical care by placing special emphasis on identifying circumstances that put patients at risk of harm, and acting to prevent or control those risks.
   
   
10. RCT COMMITTEE
    The Randomized Controlled Trials Committee shall be composed of impartial groups that oversees a clinical trial and reviews the results to see if they are acceptable. It shall reviews for studies on surgical infections and recommends for or against activation on their interpretation and a redefinition of their mission in relation to program development and evaluation.

Ad Hoc

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History

1988

We established the Surgical Infection Society of Japan.
President: Jiro Yura

2002

(Nov 29)
At the general meeting of the 15th Annual Meeting, we decided to reorganize from the Surgical Infection Society of Japan (research group) to the Japan Society for Surgical Infection (academic society).

(Nov 30)
We established the Japan Society for Surgical Infection.
Chairperson of the Board of Directors: Professor Yoshinobu Sumiyama

2004

(Beginning of August 2004)
Fail of outsourcing business centre, the Japan Business Center for Academic Societies.
We changed our membership fee control to our beureau, after this.

(Sep 10)
1st Publication of the Journal of Japan Society for Surgical Infection
[J Jpn Soc Surg Infec, ISSN 1349-5755]

(Oct 23)
Earthquake hit on the Annual Meeting venue before the 17th Annual Meeting

2007

(Sep 18)
Incorporated: JSSI registered at the Tokyo Legislative Bureau.

2008

(August 1)
Membership 1,419

Membership

Membership 1,664 persons (April 1, 2010)
Honorary
(past president) 24
(special member) 9
Directors 154
Regular 1,422
Associate 30
Supporting 25

Chairperson of the Board of Directors

Yoshinobu Sumiyama, MD / Toho University