Miharu Nakanishi is Associate Professor of Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine. She has worked in dementia care research, including (1) development and implementation of a psychosocial dementia care program to manage neuropsychiatric symptoms of dementia; (2) quality evaluation of end-of-life care for older adults using national data; and (3) facilitators and barriers to initiate advance care planning for people with dementia.
Prof. Nakanishi is currently working for the European Association for Palliative Care task force advance care planning in dementia, and a visiting researcher at Leiden University Medical Center from June 2023 until March 2024.