Professor
Okayama University Hospital, Japan
Education:
1981 - 1987 Okayama University Medical School
1987 - 1991 Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine
Licensure:
1987 Medical Licence
1991 Ph.D. Thesis title: Alterations of retinoblastoma susceptible gene accompanied by c-myc amplification in human bone and soft tissue tumors.
1998 Orthopaedic Specialist approved by the Japanese Orthopaedic Association
2002 Professor License (Venia Legendi für das Fach Orthopädie) in German speaking countries
Professional Work (including Research):
1993 - 1996 Fellow of German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), Department of Orthopaedics, Münster University Hospital
1996 - 1999 Assistant Professor, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Okayama University Hospital
1999 - 2002 Guest Researcher of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Department of Orthopaedics, Münster University Hospital
2002 - 2005 Senior Lecturer, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Okayama University Hospital
2005 - Present Professor and Chairman, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Okayama University Hospital
2013 - 2019 Deputy Hospital Director, Okayama University Hospital
Awards and Honors:
2001 Best Poster Award, 14th European Musculoskeletal Oncology Meeting
2003 Japan Orthopaedics and Traumatology Foundation Prize
2015 Encouragement Award, Bone and Joint Japan
2019 Japan Award (Encouragement Award), Bone and Joint Japan
Major Committee Assignments:
2008 - Asia-Pacific Musculoskeletal Tumor Society (international advisory board member)
2013 - International Society of Limb Salvage (board member)
2013 - 2023 Japan Ewing Sarcoma Study, JESS (chairperson)
2014 - Japanese - Korean Combined Orthopaedic Symposium (faculty member)
2017 - Japan Clinical Oncology Group, JCOG (chairperson of bone and soft tissue tumor study group)
The Board of Directors:
2014 - Chairperson, Chugoku-Shikoku Orthopaedic Association
2013 - Japanese Society for Musculoskeletal Medicine
2017 - Japanese Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine
