Name Sadanori Akita, MD, PhD
———————————————————————————————————
Date of birth 26-03-1965
———————————————————————————————————
Plastic Surgery, Nagasaki University, Japan
———————————————————————————————————
Additional qualifications
Education :
Graduating from medical school in Nagasaki, Japan in 1989
Training and post-doctoral course :
| 1989-1993 |
Resident in Plastic Reconstructive Surgery, Nagasaki Univ. Hospital |
| 1993-1996 |
Research Fellow, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA |
| 1996-1999 |
Fellow in Plastic Reconstructive Surgery, Nagasaki Univ. Hospital |
International peer-review publication: 42
Invitational lectures (International): 15
Invitational lectures (Domestic): 15
International presentations: 43
Awards (International) : 4
Awards (Domestic): 4 (including “Best scholar Award" in Nagasaki University in 2006)
Scientific committee (International): 2
Scientific committee (Domestic): 11
Scientific grant received: 20 since 1997
Main topic interested :
Cytokines and stem cells in wound healing
Difficult wound healing (Radiation injury)
Reconstructive Surgery
Burn and Craniofacial surgery
Summary :
”Dr. Akita started plastic surgical training program at Nagasaki University Hospital. He then proceeded to Graduate School of Nagasaki University (four-year, PhD course), specializing in plastic and reconstructive surgery from 1990 to 1994. In 1993, he further started research fellowship at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) under supervision of Dr. Shlomo Melmed, M.D. on a cytokine expression and its regulation in vivo by using a transgenic animal model until 1996. In 1996, after returning to Nagasaki University as a staff plastic surgeon, he also set-up his laboratory investigating craniofacial anomaly, flap physiology, cutaneous oncogenesis and wound healing. Clinically he became a board-certified plastic surgeon in 1999 and specializing in all aspects of plastic surgery and sub-specializing in craniofacial surgery, burn and intractable wound coverage and reconstruction. He has published more than 42 English peer-reviewed manuscripts including 5 Wound Repair and Regeneration, 2 Journal of Clinical Investigation. He is currently a trustee of Japanese Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery and of Japanese Society for Wound Healing. Also, he involves in various committee memberships such as a member of the trustee’s screening committee, scientific committee, a committee for affairs of affiliated academic societies and a member of the investigating future plan committee and will be a publication committee member of journal “Wound Repair and Regeneration” from 2008.
|
