Norihide FUKUSHIMA

Director, Department of Transplant Medicine, National Cerebral and Cardiovascular Centre,
Japan

Dr Norihide Fukushima is the Director of the Department of Transplant Medicine, National Cerebral and Cardiovascular Centre. Dr Fukushima graduated with his MD and from the Osaka University Faculty of Medicine in 1982, before joining the Department of Surgery and pursuing his PhD at the university, with a separate stint as a research and Clinical Fellow at the Loma Linda University, CA. After completing his PhD in 1992, Dr Fukishima remained at the University, eventually accepting professorship and rising to his current position as the Director of the Department of Transplant Medicine.

An avid researcher, Dr Norihide Fukushima has published almost 50 papers to his name, and is additionally credited as a co-author in more than 100 papers.