Clinical & Experimental Cardiology
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Hiroaki Shimokawa

Biography

Dr. Shimokawa graduated from Kyushu University in 1979 and obtained MD and PhD degrees at the University. He studied at the Mayo Clinic in 1985-1987 and was appointed as an assistant professor at Kyushu University in 1991, and then associate professor in 1995. In 2005, he was appointed as the professor and chairman of the Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, Tohoku University. In 2020, he was appointed as the Vice Dean of Graduate School, International University of Health and Welfare. He has performed a number of innovative research in both basic and clinical cardiovascular medicine, 

Research Interest

 Arteriosclerotic vascular disease; Nitric oxide synthase; Knockout mice; Transgenic mice; Myocardial infarction

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