Rate My Professor Mio Ishii

Mio Ishii is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Child Psychiatry at Yokohama City University Hospital. She earned her MD from Sapporo Medical University School of Medicine in 2007 and her PhD from Yokohama City University Graduate School of Medicine in 2017. Her clinical expertise centers on psychiatric emergency care and child and adolescent psychiatry. Ishii has held positions including roles at Numazu Chuo Hospital, Yokohama City University Medical Center, and Kawasaki City Inclusive Rehabilitation Center before returning to Yokohama City University in 2022. Her research focuses on person-centered care, minimizing behavioral restrictions, trauma-informed care, and digital psychiatry applications such as metaverse-based consultations and AI chatbots for youth mental health. Key publications include studies on the feasibility of shared decision making for first-admission schizophrenia patients published in BMC Psychiatry in 2014 and 2017, as well as recent papers on metaverse psychiatric consultations and AI interventions in JMIR journals from 2025 and 2026. She contributes to regional inclusive care systems and youth mental health support initiatives in administrative medicine roles.