Emergency Medicine

BIOGRAPHY

ACADEMIC POSITION:
Associate Professor, Trauma and Critical Care Center, Teikyo University School of Medicine

MEMBERSHIPS/AWARDS:
• National Board of Emergency Medicine and Intensivist, 1999
• Fellow, the Paris out-of hospital emergency medical service (SAMU), 1998
• Councillor, Japanese Association of Acute Medicine (JAAM), 2005 –present and Japanese Association of the Surgery for Trauma (JAST), 2004 – present
• Member, The Working Group on Health Research for Mass Gathering Medicine, the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare in Japan, 1999–2002
• Trauma Registry Committee, JAST, 1999-2004
• Clinical Indicator Committee, JAAM, 2004–present

RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Research interests include out-of-hospital/pre-hospital emergency medicine, critical care for traumatized patients, airway management/monitoring in ICU, cardiopulmonary resuscitation, and disaster/mass gathering medicine.