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Kiyoshi Kurokawa
MD, MACP, FRCP(London)
Professor, National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies
Chairman, Health and Global Policy Institute
Chair , Co-Founder, IMPACT Japan
A graduate of University of Tokyo Faculty of Medicine; he spent in the US,
1969-85, was a professor of medicine, departments of medicine of UCLA
School of Medicine (1979-84), of University of Tokyo, (1989-96), Dean of the
Medical School at Tokai University (1996-2002), President of Science Council
of Japan (2003-06), Science Advisor to the Prime Minister (2006-08). He
served as an executive member of many national and international professional societies of his disciplines, Commissioner of WHO (2005-09), and is an elected member of various scientific societies including Institute of Medicine of the National Academies of Sciences of USA, Master of American College of Physicians. He has served and serves in many committees of the government of Japan.
He was awarded L'ordre national de la l_gion d'honneur from French Government (2009) and the ACCJ (The American Chamber of Commerce in Japan) Person of the Year for 2010. His website: http://www.kiyoshikurokawa.com/en
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