Faculty Listing: Hokkaido University Graduate School of Medicine

As of February 1, 2012

Physiological Science

Biochemistry

Molecular Biology

Professor	Hisataka Sabe
Associate Professor	Shigeru Hashimoto
Assistant Professor	Ari Hashimoto
Assistant Professor	Yasuhito Onodera

Medical Chemistry

Professor	Shigetsugu Hatakeyama
Assistant Professor	Tadasuke Tsukiyama
Assistant Professor	Tomonobu Sato
Assistant Professor	Hidehisa Takahashi

Anatomy

Anatomy and Embryology

Professor	Masahiko Watanabe
Lecturer	Miwako Yamasaki
Assistant Professor	Taisuke Miyazaki
Assistant Professor	Kohtaro Konno (concurrent)
Assistant Professor	Motokazu Uchigashima

Histology and Cytology

Professor	Toshihiko Iwanaga
Associate Professor	Hiromi Takahashi-Iwanaga
Assistant Professor	Junko Nio-Kobayashi
Assistant Professor	Shunsuke Kimura
Assistant Professor	Megumi Yamakami

Physiology

Chronophysiology

Professor	Sato Honma
Assistant Professor	Shin-ya Nishide
Assistant Professor	Yujiro Yamanaka
Assistant Professor	Ryosuke Enoki (concurrent)

Sensorimotor and Cognitive Research

Professor	Masaki Tanaka
Assistant Professor	Takanobu Yamanobe
Assistant Professor	Sergei A. Kurkin

Pharmacology

Neuropharmacology

Professor	Mitsuhiro Yoshioka
Assistant Professor	Takeshi Izumi
Assistant Professor	Takayuki Yoshida
Assistant Professor	Yu Ohmura

Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology

Professor	Soichi Miwa
Lecturer	Takahiro Horinouchi
Assistant Professor	Koji Terada

Pathological Science

Pathology

Professor	Masanori Kasahara
Lecturer	Utano Tomaru
Assistant Professor	Noriyuki Otsuka
Assistant Professor	Yukiko Miyatake

Molecular and Cellular Pathology

Professor	Shinya Tanaka
Associate Professor	Yusuke Ohba
Assistant Professor	Masumi Tsuda
Assistant Professor	Mishie Tanino
Assistant Professor	Taichi Kimura (concurrent)

Molecular and Diagnostic Pathology (cooperative dept.)

Professor

Yoshihiro Matsuno (concurrent)

Microbiology

Microbiology and Immunology

Professor	Tsukasa Seya
Associate Professor	Misako Matsumoto
Associate Professor	Sayuri Yamazaki
Lecturer	Hiroyuki Oshiumi
Assistant Professor	Hiroaki Shime (concurrent)
Assistant Professor	Hussein Hassan Aly Ibrahim
Assistant Professor	Haruko Sato
Assistant Professor	Kenji Funami

Infectious Diseases

Professor	Jiro Arikawa
Associate Professor	Kumiko Yoshimatsu
Assistant Professor	Kenta Shimizu
Assistant Professor	Rie Isozumi

Social Medicine

Preventive Medicine

Environmental Biology

Professor	Hiroyoshi Fujita
Associate Professor	Atsushi Oda
Assistant Professor	Hiroshi Wakao

Public Health

Professor	Hidehiko Tamashiro (concurrent)
Assistant Professor	Seiko Sasaki

Global Health and Epidemiology

Professor	Hidehiko Tamashiro
Assistant Professor	Yoshihide Obayashi
Assistant Professor	Asuna Arai

Forensic Medicine and Medical Informatics

Forensic Medicine

Professor	Koh-ichi Terazawa
Assistant Professor	Kotaro Matoba
Assistant Professor	Manabu Murakami

Medical Statistics and Healthcare Systems Research

Professor	Koh-ichi Terazawa (concurrent)
Assistant Professor	Hidenobu Kawabata
Assistant Professor	Toshihito Nakamura

Internal Medicine

Respiratory Medicine

Professor	Masaharu Nishimura
Lecturer	Satoshi Konno
Assistant Professor	Naofumi Shinagawa
Assistant Professor	Katsura Nagai (concurrent)

Clinical Immunology and Metabolism

Professor	Tatsuya Atsumi
Lecturer	Shinsuke Yasuda

Gastroenterology and Hematology

Professor	Hiroyuki Tsutsui (concurrent)
Associate Professor	Satoshi Hashino
Assistant Professor	Mitsuru Nakanishi (concurrent)
Assistant Professor	Shunsuke Ohnishi

Cardiovascular Medicine

Professor	Hiroyuki Tsutsui
Assistant Professor	Shintaro Kinugawa
Assistant Professor	Takeaki Kaneko
Assistant Professor	Hirofumi Mitsuyama

Medical Oncology

Professor	Hirotoshi Akita
Lecturer	Ichiro Kinoshita
Assistant Professor	Satoshi Takeuchi
Assistant Professor	Yasushi Shimizu

Hematology and Oncology

Professor	Masahiro Imamura
Associate Professor	Jyunji Tanaka

Health Care Medicine (cooperative dept.)

Professor

Manabu Musashi (concurrent)

Radiology and Nuclear Medicine

Radiation Medicine

Professor	Hiroki Shirato
Lecturer	Rikiya Onimaru
Lecturer	Shinichi Shimizu
Assistant Professor	Tsuguhide Takeshima (concurrent)
Assistant Professor	Norio Katoh (concurrent)
Assistant Professor	Noriyuki Fujima
Assistant Professor	Hideaki Nihongi
Assistant Professor	Yuichi Hirata

Nuclear Medicine

Professor	Nagara Tamaki
Associate Professor	Tohru Shiga
Assistant Professor	Shouzo Okamoto
Assistant Professor	Feng Fei

Radiobiology (cooperative dept.)

Professor	Yuji Kuge (concurrent)
Associate Professor	Naoki Kubo (concurrent)
Assistant Professor	Kazuki Aita (concurrent)

Comprehensive Radiological Science (collaborative dept.)

Visiting Professor	Tadashi Kamada
Visiting Professor	Tsuneo Saga

Surgery

Gastroenterological Surgery I

Professor	Akinobu Taketomi
Associate Professor	Toshiya Kamiyama

Gastroenterological Surgery II

Professor	Satoshi Hirano
Lecturer	Toshiaki Shichinohe
Assistant Professor	Joe Matsumoto (concurrent)

Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery

Professor

Yoshiro Matsui

Renal and Genito-Urinary Surgery

Professor	Katsuya Nonomura
Associate Professor	Nobuo Shinohara
Assistant Professor	Kimihiko Moriya

Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine

Anesthesia and Perioperative Medicine

Professor	Yuji Morimoto
Assistant Professor	Toshikazu Hashimoto

Acute and Critical Care Medicine

Professor	Satoshi Gando
Lecturer	Atsushi Sawamura

Specialized Medicine

Reconstructive Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine

Orthopedic Surgery

Professor	Akio Minami
Associate Professor	Norimasa Iwasaki
Assistant Professor	Tomohiro Onodera

Sports Medicine and Joint Surgery

Professor	Kazunori Yasuda
Lecturer	Eiji Kondo
Lecturer	Nobuto Kitamura

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Professor	Yuhei Yamamoto
Lecturer	Hiroshi Furukawa
Assistant Professor	Emi Funayama

Spinal Reconstructive Surgery

Professor

Kuniyoshi Abumi

Rehabilitation Medicine (cooperative dept.)

Professor	Katsunori Ikoma (concurrent)
Associate Professor	Harukazu Tohyama (concurrent)

Reproductive and Developmental Medicine

Pediatrics

Professor	Tadashi Ariga
Lecturer	Toshihiro Tajima
Lecturer	Ichiro Kobayashi

Obstetrics

Professor	Hisanori Minakami
Lecturer	Takashi Yamada
Research Associate	Itsuko Furuta

Reproductive Endocrinology and Oncology

Professor	Noriaki Sakuragi
Associate Professor	Masataka Kudou
Assistant Professor	Mahito Takeda

Sensory Organ Medicine

Dermatology

Professor	Hiroshi Shimizu
Associate Professor	Riichiro Abe
Assistant Professor	Ken Arita (concurrent)
Assistant Professor	Satoru Shinkuma
Assistant Professor	Hongjiang Qiao

Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery

Professor	Satoshi Fukuda (concurrent)
Associate Professor	Nobuhiko Oridate
Associate Professor	Akihiro Honma
Assistant Professor	Satoshi Kano (concurrent)
Associate Professor	Tomohiro Sakashita

Ophthalmology

Professor	Susumu Ishida
Lecturer	Kousuke Noda
Assistant Professor	Atsuhiro Kanda

Neurological Disorder

Psychiatry

Professor	Tsukasa Koyama
Associate Professor	Ichiro Kusumi
Associate Professor	Satoshi Asakura
Assistant Professor	Naoki Hashimoto
Assistant Professor	Atsuhito Toyomaki

Neurosurgery

Professor	Kiyohiro Houkin
Associate Professor	Kazutoshi Hida

Neurology

Professor	Hidenao Sasaki
Visiting Professor	Jun Utsumi
Associate Professor	Ichiro Yabe
Assistant Professor	Takahiro Kano

Collaborative Medicine

Advanced Medical Sciences

Neurobiology

Professor

Haruyuki Kamiya

Clinical Statistics

Professor	Nagara Tamaki (concurrent)
Associate Professor	Yoichi M. Ito

Human Evolution Studies

Professor	Nagara Tamaki (concurrent)
Lecturer	Hitoshi Fukase

Tracer Kinetics and Bioanalysis (cooperative dept.)

Professor	Songji Zhao (concurrent)
Professor	Komei Washino (concurrent)
Lecturer	Ken-ichi Nishijima (concurrent)
Assistant Professor	Feng Fei (concurrent)

Cellular Informatics (cooperative dept.)

Professor

Tetsuo Ueda (concurrent)

Translational Research Management (cooperative dept.)

Professor

Norihiro Sato (concurrent)

Medical Physics and Engineering (cooperative dept.)

Professor	Masayori Ishikawa (concurrent)
Assistant Professor	Seishin Takao (concurrent)
Assistant Professor	Naoki Miyamoto (concurrent)
Assistant Professor	Chie Toramatsu (concurrent)
Assistant Professor	Kenneth Sutherland (concurrent)

Applied Molecular-Imaging Physics (cooperative dept.)

Professor	Masayori Ishikawa (concurrent)
Assistant Professor	Taeko Matsuura (concurrent)

Lecturer	Hiroko Takano
Assistant Professor	Yimin
Assistant Professor	Ryosuke Enoki
Research Associate	Shoji Satoh
Research Associate	Hideki Nakamura

Cooperative Departments (Institute for Genetic Medicine)

Immunology

Molecular Virology

Professor

Hisatoshi Shida (concurrent)

Immunobiology

Professor

Kenichiro Seino (concurrent)

Immunoregulation

Professor

Takashi Nishimura (concurrent)

Molecular Immunology

Professor

Toshimitu Uede (concurrent)

Pathological Oncology

Cancer Biology

Professor

Masayuki Noguchi (concurrent)

Tumor Virology

Professor	Kenzo Takada (concurrent)
Associate Professor	Seiji Maruo (concurrent)

Cancer-Related Genes

Associate Professor

Jun-ichi Hamada (concurrent)

Research Center for Cooperative Projects

Professor	Nagara Tamaki (concurrent)
Professor	Jiro Arikawa (concurrent)
Professor	Masayori Ishikawa
Professor	Hiroki Shirato (concurrent)
Professor	Songji Zhao
Professor	Ken-ichi Honma (concurrent)
Professor	Sato Honma (concurrent)
Professor	Kazunori Yasuda (concurrent)
Professor	Komei Washino
Professor	Masahiko Watanabe (concurrent)
Associate Professor	Satoru Masubuchi
Lecturer	Ken-ichi Nishijima
Lecturer	Toshiyuki Hamada
Assistant Professor	Yoriko Ando
Assistant Professor	Yimin (concurrent)
Assistant Professor	Ryosuke Enoki (concurrent)
Assistant Professor	Rumiko Kinoshita
Assistant Professor	Kin Kin Tha
Assistant Professor	Kwon, Hyuck Joon
Assistant Professor	Kenneth Sutherland
Assistant Professor	Yoko Suzuki
Assistant Professor	Seishin Takao
Assistant Professor	Chie Toramatsu
Assistant Professor	Jinmin Nam
Assistant Professor	Noriyuki Hatsugai
Assistant Professor	Yoshihiro Hirata
Assistant Professor	Feng Fei (concurrent)
Assistant Professor	Taeko Matsuura
Assistant Professor	Shintaro Mikuni
Assistant Professor	Naoki Miyamoto
Assistant Professor	Tomoko Yoshikawa
Research Associate	Hideki Nakamura (concurrent)

Center for Medical Education

Professor	Nagara Tamaki (concurrent)
Professor	Mitsuhiro Yoshioka (concurrent)

Educational Research and Development

Professor	Junji Otaki
Associate Professor	Masashi Kohanawa (concurrent)

Educational Support

Assistant Professor	Katsura Nagai
Assistant Professor	Joe Matsumoto
Assistant Professor	Mitsuru Nakanishi
Assistant Professor	Ken Arita
Assistant Professor	Norio Katoh
Assistant Professor	Satoshi Kano
Assistant Professor	Kohtaro Konno
Assistant Professor	Taichi Kimura
Assistant Professor	Hiroaki Shime

International Relations

Professor	Masanori Kasahara (concurrent)
Lecturer	Hiroko Takano (concurrent)

Public Relations

Professor	Hiroki Shirato (concurrent)
Associate Professor	Masako Wada (concurrent)
Research Associate	Shoji Satoh (concurrent)

Office for Supporting Innovations in Medical Care

Professor	Hiroki Shirato (concurrent)
Associate Professor	Masako Wada

Support Office for World-Leading Innovative R&D on Science and Technology

Professor	Kikuo Umegaki
Associate Professor	Kenji Naoe
Associate Professor	Kenta Mochizuki

Institute for Animal Experimentation

Professor	Shigetsugu Hatakeyama (concurrent)
Professor	Jiro Arikawa (concurrent)
Assistant Professor	Tsutomu Osanai
Assistant Professor	Noriko Tosa

Endowed Departments

Molecular Imaging

Professor	Nagara Tamaki (concurrent)
Professor	Kikuo Umegaki (concurrent)
Professor	Keiichiro Yoshinaga
Visiting Associate Professor	Takeshi Sakamoto
Visiting Associate Professor	Hisaaki Ochi
Lecturer	Ken-ichi Nishijima (concurrent)
Lecturer	Naoya Hattori

Chronomedicine

Professor	Ken-ichi Honma
Professor	Sato Honma (concurrent)

Joint Replacement and Tissue Engineering

Professor

Tokifumi Majima

Molecular Surgery

Professor	Michitaka Ozaki
Associate Professor	Tomomi Suzuki

Ocular Inflammation and Immunology

Professor	Shigeaki Ohno
Professor	Susumu Ishida (concurrent)
Visiting Associate Professor	Nobuyoshi Kitaichi
Assistant Professor	Atsuhiro Kanda (concurrent)

Women's Health Educational System

Professor	Noriaki Sakuragi (concurrent)
Associate Professor	Masanori Kaneuchi
Assistant Professor	Dong Peixin

Translational Pathology

Professor	Shinya Tanaka (concurrent)
Associate Professor	Hiroshi Nishihara

Advanced Medicine for Spine and Spinal Cord Disorders

Professor	Manabu Ito
Lecturer	Hideki Sudo

Ocular Circulation and Metabolism

Professor	Susumu Ishida (concurrent)
Lecturer	Kousuke Noda (concurrent)
Lecturer	Wataru Saito

Organ Transplantation

Professor	Satoru Todo
Associate Professor	Kenichiro Yamashita
Assistant Professor	Kazuaki Nakanishi
Assistant Professor	Hirofumi Kamachi

Cancer Preventive Medicine

Professor	Masahiro Asaka
Visiting Professor	Masanobu Kobayashi
Visiting Professor	Naomi Uemura
Assistant Professor	Hidetaka Hosono

Hokkaido Organization for Translational Research

Professor

Kazunori Yasuda (concurrent)

TR Planning

Professor	Eiichi Nagai
Professor	Kiyohiro Houkin (concurrent)
Professor	Osamu Sugita (concurrent)
Associate Professor	Fujio Inage
Lecturer	Hiroo Matsumoto
Assistant Professor	Yosuke Kobayashi

HTR-network Promotion

Professor	Hiroki Shirato (concurrent)
Professor	Mitsuhiro Yoshioka (concurrent)
Associate Professor	Kouji Nakamura
Associate Professor	Masako Wada (concurrent)
Assistant Professor	Reika Okamura

Clinical Trial Management

Professor	Norihiro Sato (concurrent)
Associate Professor	Fujio Inage
Associate Professor	Yoichi M. Ito (concurrent)
Lecturer	Hiroshi Hayashi
Assistant Professor	Naoki Nishimoto
Assistant Professor	Namiho Eguchi