KIYOSHI KUROKAWA
Dr. Kiyoshi Kurokawa has received his MD degree at the University of Tokyo Faculty of Medicine in 1962. After completion of clinical training in medicine and its subspecialty of nephrology, Dr. Kurokawa moved in 1969 to University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine (a fellow in Biochemistry), then to UCLA, USC, and then back to UCLA School of Medicine where he rose to the rank of Professor of Medicine and Chief, Nephrology Division of Nephrology, at West LA VA Medical Center. Following his academic career in USA which spanned over 14 years, he returned to the University of Tokyo Faculty of Medicine in 1984, and assumed Professor and Chair of Department of Medicine in 1990. He then became Dean of Tokai University School of Medicine in 1997.
Dr. Kurokawa is fully trained in medicine and nephrology and licensed to practice in both Japan and in the State of California. He is board certiied in internal medicine and its subspecialty of nephrology by the American Board of Internal Medicine. He is a member of prestigious professional societies in both USA and Japan including ASCI, AAP, IOM, and Master of American College of Physicians in US, and Science Council of Japan, and is/was board members of the Japanese Societies of Medicine, of Nephrology; is currently President of International Society of Nephrology. He will preside over the International Congress of Internal Medicine in 2002. He has served as Science Advisor to the Ministry of Education and Culture of Japan, and serves many advisory and academic committees of the Ministries of Health and Welfare, the Science and Technology Agency, the National Space and Development Agency, the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science. He has published over 300 papers in prestigious journals and given many invited lectures/seminars in national and international conferences and congresses and grand rounds/seminars in many medical schools in US and Japan. Thus, he is a rare species in academic medicine in Japan who has extensive experiences in academic institutions in both countries, thus has insights into and able to translate and compare the research policy/operations and the health care policy in both countries. He has been not only a leader in medicine and nephrology, but is a leader of in medical education. training, and health care policy in Japan.