Norihiro Kato, M.D., D.Phil. Director, Department of Gene Diagnostics and Therapeutics Research Institute, National Center for Global Health and Medicine Medical Genomics Center, National Center for Global Health and Medicine

Education
1988 M.D. The University of Tokyo Faculty of Medicine
1997 D.Phil. University of Oxford Faculty of Clinical Medicine

Professional Experience
1988-1992 Resident in Internal Medicine, Toranomon Hospital
1992-1993 Clinical Staff, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo
1997-1998 Lecturer, Graduate School of Human and Environmental Studies, Kyoto University
1999-2000 Assistant Professor, Department of Internal Medicine, Teikyo University
2000-2010 Director, Department of Gene Diagnostics and Therapeutics, Research Institute, International Medical Center of Japan
2010-Present Director, Department of Gene Diagnostics and Therapeutics, Research Institute, National Center for Global Health and Medicine
2016-Present Director General, Medical Genomics Center, National Center for Global Health and Medicine

Research Interests
Individualized medicine of lifestyle-related diseases
Clinical genetic epidemiology
Clinical genome informatics

Clinical Speciality
Cardiology
Clinical genetics

Teaching
Clinical genome informatics (Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo)

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