Prof. Dr. Sadanori Akita (Japan) EXTERNAL ADVISOR

Position

Professor, Fukushima Medical University/Director, Tamaki-Aozora Hospital, Plastic Surgery

Qualifications:

MD, PhD

Dr. Akita is currently a professor at Fukushima Medical University. And he was a professor and chief of department of plastic surgery, wound repair and regeneration of Fukuoka University, school of medicine from 2016 to 2021 and he is a professor at Fukushima Medical University.

He did his residency in plastic surgery at Nagasaki University Hospital. He received his PhD from the Graduate School of Nagasaki University specializing in plastic and reconstructive surgery. He later did a research fellowship at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) under supervision of Shlomo Melmed MD on a cytokine expression and its regulation in vivo by using a transgenic animal model. He serves as a general secretary of World Union of Wound Healing Societies, which will be held in Yokohama, September 2-6, 2012, http://wuwhs2012.com/ and will be president of the world union of wound healing societies, for the years of 2012 to 2016. He is the president of the World Union of Wound Healing Societies (WUWHS) from September, 2012 to September, 2016 and currently the president of the Asian Wound Care Association (AWCA). His research interests include: cytokines and stem cells in wound healing, difficult wound healing (radiation injury), regenerative tissue enhancement to HIV-drug related-wasting patients, reconstructive surgery, burn, craniofacial surgery and hemangioma/avascular malformations. He serves as an editorial board member of renowned journals such as ePlasty, Wound Repair and Regeneration, which is also a senior editor, Advances in Wound Care, WOUNDS, Advances of Wound Care, International Journal of Lower Extremity Wounds, International Journal of Molecular Sciences, Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery-Global Open and a regular reviewer in journals of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Lancet, Nature and Annals of Surgery.

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He intends to develop basic molecular science to clinical problem-oriented of mechanism and functional solution with esthetic concerns with translational approach.

Along with clinical and research actives, he interacts with international communities by lecturing and workshops on site in this way, he is ready for diverse and broadened views