AFFILIATION: Department of Pediatrics, The University of Tokyo Hospital, Tokyo, Japan

CV SUMMARY

Worked as a pediatrician or a neonatologist for 18 years in Japan. For these several years, also contributed as a researcher regarding epigenetics among preterm and low birth weight infants, and performed first epigenome-wide association study (EWAS) among Japanese preterm infants.

WORK EXPERIENCE

2018-present

      Research Associate
      Department of Pediatrics, The University of Tokyo Hospital, Tokyo, Japan

Ø Engaged in neonatal medicine, especially the field of premature infants and congenital diseases (e.g. congenital heart disease, surgical disease, congenital anomaly, etc.).

Ø Engaged in the research of epigenetics among premature infants.

2014-2018

      Graduate School Student

Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Ø Research of ‘Newborn Epigenetics’, Cross-sectional study. This is the first epigenetic research of preterm or small-for-gestational-age infants using genome-wide methylation analysis in Japan.

2012-2014

      Clinical Fellow

      Department of Neonatology, Tokyo Metropolitan Bokutoh Hospital, Tokyo, Japan

Ø Engaged in neonatal medicine, especially the field of extremely premature infants.

EDUCATION

     1997-2003 The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

              Doctor of Medicine

     2014-2018 Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

PhD in Medicine (Advisor: Prof. Akira Oka; JPS president)