Kei Okami
Kei Okami (center) withAnandi Gopal Joshi (left) andSabat Islambouli (right), picture from 10 October 1885
Born	(1859-09-11)11 September 1859 Aomori Prefecture, Japan
Died	2 September 1941(1941-09-02) (aged 82)
Other names	Nishida Keiko, Keiko Okami, Kei Nishida Okami, Kyōko Okami
Alma mater	Women's Medical College of Pennsylvania, 1889.
Occupation	Physician
Known for	The first Japanese woman to obtain a degree in Western medicine from a Western university

Kei Okami (岡見 京,Okami Kei; 11 September 1859^[1][2] – 2 September 1941^[1]) was a Japanese physician. She was the firstJapanese woman to obtain a degree inWestern medicine from a Western university (Women's Medical College of Pennsylvania, USA).

Kei Okami was born as Nishida Keiko inAomori Prefecture in 1859. She graduated from the Yokohama Kyoritsu Girls' School in 1878, and then taughtEnglish at the Sakurai Girls' School. She married an art teacher, Okami Senkichiro, at the age of 25. The couple subsequently traveled to the United States.^[3]

In America, Kei Okami studied at theWoman's Medical College of Pennsylvania, receiving aid from the Women's Foreign Missionary Society of the Presbyterian Church. After four years of study, she graduated in 1889, withSusan La Flesche Picotte.^[4][5] She thus became the first Japanese woman to obtain a degree in the Western medicine from a Western university.^[3]

After returning to Japan, Kei Okami also worked at the Jikei Hospital (now theJikei University School of Medicine hospital) at the invitation ofTakaki Kanehiro. She resigned because the Emperor,Meiji, refused her care because she was female.^{[6][7][unreliable source?]} Then, she opened her own clinic, operating out of her home in Akasaka Tameike,Minato.^[8] Kei Okami worked in gynecology and also treated tuberculosis patients.^{[7][unreliable source?]}

Later, she closed the practice, and served as the vice-principal of Shoei Girls' school (a predecessor of theShoei Girls' Junior and Senior High School), which was founded by her brother-in-law Kiyomune. In 1897, she opened a small hospital for sick women in partnership with a friend, Mrs. True. She also established a school of nursing in the same premises. The hospital closed after nine years, as there were very few patients, mostly limited to foreign female preachers. Subsequently, she retired due tobreast cancer.^[8] A devoutChristian, she participated in missionary work in Japan, as well as teaching anatomy to nurses in one of Japan's largest hospitals.^[9]

• Kusumoto Ine, first Japanese woman trained in Western medicine, at a Japanese school
• Ogino Ginko, who graduated from theJuntendo University in 1882.

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