Born in Amagasaki, Hyogo

March 1982

Graduates Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine

May 1982

Joins the Department of Pediatrics of Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine and serves as a resident in pediatrics at affiliated hospitals

April 1989

Graduate School of Medical Science, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine (Internal Medicine Course)

March 1993

Completed the graduate program of Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine

September 1994

Visiting Lecturer, Department of Anatomy and Developmental Biology, University of South Carolina School of Medicine

April 1997

Lecturer in pediatric cardiology and nephrology, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine

2000 to 2001

Visiting Researcher, Divisions of Cardiology and Molecular Cardiovascular Biology, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center

July 2008

Head, Department of Pediatric Cardiology, National Cerebral and Cardiovascular Center　

April 2009

Head, Pediatric Circulatory and Perinatal Department, National Cerebral and Cardiovascular Center

March 2017

Head, Department of Education Promotion (also acted as a physician of the Department of Pediatric Cardiology)

April 2022

Visiting Researcher Emeritus, National Cerebral and Cardiovascular Center
Senior Scientist, Japan Medical Device Corporation

• Pediatric cardiology; congenital heart disease; genetic disease; pediatric cardiac pathology; 3D imaging; 3D printing

• Cardiac embryology; molecular cardiology

• Japanese Society of Pediatric Cardiology and Cardiac Surgery (specialist physician, councilor, director [2009 to 2021], chief editor of the society’s journals [2013 to 2019], chief editor of the Journal of Pediatric Cardiology and Cardiac Surgery [2015 to 2019], president of the 57th Annual Meeting in 2021)
• Japan Pediatric Society (specialist physician, member of the Council for Pediatric Chronic Disease)
• The Japanese Circulation Society (specialist physician, FJCS, editor of the Circulation Journal [2022], member of the Cardiac Transplantation Committee [2022], member of the Cross-Disciplinary Committee for Transition Medicine)
• Japanese College of Cardiology (FJCC, editor of the Journal of Cardiology Cases [2022])
• Japanese Society for Adult Congenital Heart Disease (director [2022], councilor, chairperson of the examination committee [2022])
• American Heart Association (FAHA, council member; Young Heart, Basic CV Science)
• European Society of Cardiology (FESC, committee member; Cardiac Anatomy & Development)
• Weinstein Cardiovascular Development and Regeneration Conference (Co-organizer, Meeting 2018 in Nara)
• Associate editor of the Journal of Cardiovascular Development and Disease (United States)

We do our utmost to provide reliable medical care for children with heart disease and their parents.
We also make our best efforts to promote education and clinical research at the National Cerebral and Cardiovascular Center.

• Toshiaki Hisada, Professor Emeritus, The University of Tokyo
• Seiryo Sugiura, Professor Emeritus, The University of Tokyo

• Takumi Washio, Project Associate Professor
• Jun-ichi Okada, Project Researcher

• Sei Nakanishi, President and CEO

• Takafumi Okano, President and CEO

• Masatoshi Takeda, Representative Director; Katsunori Hatanaka, Managing Director

• Kenichi Kurosaki, Specially Appointed Head, Department of Pediatric Cardiology (AMED Clinical Research Director)
• Hajime Ichikawa, Director, Pediatric Circulatory and Perinatal Department
• Shigemitsu Iwai, Head, Department of Pediatric Cardiovascular Surgery
• Tetsuya Fukuda, Head, Department of Radiology
• Manabu Minami, Head, Department of Data Science

• Takaaki Suzuki, Professor, Department of Pediatric Cardiac Surgery

• Kisaburo Sakamoto, Hospital Director

• Shinichiro Oda, Lecturer, Department of Pediatric Cardiovascular Surgery

• Shingo Kasahara, Professor, Cardiovascular Surgery Department