PERSONAL INFORMATION
Sex: Male
Date of Birth: August 12, 1977
Place of Birth: Shimane Prefecture, Japan
Nationality: Japanese
EDUCATION HISTORY
2004–2008: Graduate School, Tottori University (Ph.D. conferred)
1996–2002: Faculty of Medicine, Tottori University (M.D. conferred)
1993–1996: Masuda Public High School, Shimane, Japan
OCCUPATION HISTORY
2021–Present: Assistant Professor, Division of Neurology, Department of Brain and Neurosciences, Faculty of Medicine, Tottori University, Japan
2019–2020: Tottori Prefectural Kousei Hospital, Japan
2012–2019: Department of Neurology, Faculty of Medicine, Fukushima Medical University, Japan
2008–2011: Department of Neurology, J.W. Goethe-University, Germany (Postdoctoral research fellow)
2008: Shimane Prefectural Central Hospital, Japan
2005–2008: Department of Neurology, Faculty of Medicine, Tottori University, Japan
2004–2005: Tottori Prefectural Kousei Hospital, Japan
2002–2004: Tottori Prefectural Central Hospital, Japan
2002: Department of Neurology, Faculty of Medicine, Tottori University, Japan
GRANTS:
2016, 2015, 2014, 2007: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan).
2015: Research grant from the SENSHIN Medical Research Foundation, Japan
2013: Research grant from the Kanae Foundation for the Promotion of Medical Science, Japan
2012: Research grant from the Takeda Science Foundation, Japan
2008: Postdoctoral Research Fellowship for the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Germany
AWARDS:
2024: The Editor’s Choice Award (February, Clinical Neurophysiology)
2021: Best Oral Presentation Award (International Conference of Korean Movement Disorder Society, Korea)
2020: Poster Award (Takeda Expert Conference on Parkinson’s disease, Tokyo, Japan)
2018: Travel Grant Award (4th Taiwan International Congress of Parkinson’s Disease and Movement Disorder, Taiwan)
2017: Encouragement Prize (Japanese Society of Clinical Neurophysiology, Yokohama, Japan)
2017: Travel Award (The 2nd International Taiwanese Congress of Neurology and 2017 Annual Meeting of Taiwan Neurological Society, Taiwan)
2015: Mentor Award (112th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society of Internal Medicine, Kyoto, Japan)
2011: Travel Award (3rd Neurobiology of Language Conference 2011, USA)
2010: Best Investigator Award (29th International Congress of Clinical Neurophysiology, Kobe, Japan)
2010: Best Investigator Award (29th International Congress of Clinical Neurophysiology, Kobe, Japan)
2010: Poster Prize (2010 TMS Summer School, University of Oxford, UK)
2010: Best Poster Prize (54. Jahrestagung der DGKN, Germany)
2008: Best Paper Award (The YONAGO Medical Association, Yonago, Japan)
LICENSURE and BOARD CERTIFICATION
2023: Board Certified Clinical Neurophysiologist of Japanese Society of Clinical Neurophysiology
2018: Fellow of the Japanese Society of Internal Medicine
2015: Board Certified Trainer of the Japanese Society of Neurology
2008: Diploma for Neurologist, the Japanese Society of Neurology
2002: Full Medical Doctor’s License in Japan
EDITORIAL BOARD
2014–2020: Clinical Neurophysiology