Masahiro Akishita
Professor of Graduate School of the University of Tokyo
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Head of the Department of Geriatric Medicine at the University of Tokyo Hospital
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Professor of Graduate School of Medicine at the University of Tokyo (Geriatrics and Aging Science).
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Served as Assistant Professor at the Department of Geriatrics, School of Medicine, the University of Tokyo, Research Fellow at Stanford University, Research Fellow at Harvard University, Professor at Kyorin University School of Medicine, and Professor at the Graduate School of Medicine at the University of Tokyo before assuming his current position.
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Has researched the appropriate use of drugs for older adults, and has brought attention to this issue at conferences, lectures, newspapers, and magazines.
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Has played a central role in creating guidelines for drug therapy, including the "Screening tool for older persons’ appropriate prescriptions for Japanese" at the Japan Geriatrics Society.
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Has researched gender differences in geriatric medicine and frailty.
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Graduated from the University of Tokyo Faculty of Medicine in 1985.
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Born in Tottori, Japan in 1960.