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Prof. Toru Kita

Kobe City Hospital
Kobe, Japan


Education

1962 - 1965	High School
1965 - 1967	College of Liberal Arts, Kyoto University
1967 - 1971	Faculty of Medicine,Kyoto University, Graduation to M.D.
1975 - 1979	Graduate School of Kyoto University Faculty of Medicine, Graduation to Ph.D. (Professor Shosaku Numa)

Position

1971 - 1973	Resident at the Department of Internal Medicine,Kyoto University Hospital
1973 - 1975	Resident at the Department of Internal Medicine, Shinko Hospital in Kobe,Japan
1979	Clinical Fellow of Internal Medicine, Kyoto University
1980 - 1981	Research Associate,Department of Molecular Genetics, University of Texas Health Science Center,Dallas, Texas (Professor J.L Goldstein and M.S.Brown 1985 Novel prizor)
1981 - 1982	Senior Research Associate,Department of Molecular Genetics University of Texas Health Science Center,Dallas,Texas
1982 - 1983	Assistant Professor, Department of Molecular Genetics, University of Texas Health Science Center,Dallas,Texas
1983 - 1988	Assistant Professor, Department of Internal Medicine Kyoto University
1988 - 1994	Professor and Chairman, Department of Geriatric Medicine,Faculty of Medicine Kyoto University
1994 - 2002	Professor,Department of Geriatric Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University
1997 - 2001	Vice director of Kyoto University Hospital
2002 - 2008	Professor and Chairman, Department of Cardio-Vascular Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto Universit
2006 - 2008	Executive Vice President of Kyoto University
2008 -	Director,Kobe City Medical Center
2009 -	Executive Vice-President,Kobe City Hospital Organization


Editorial Board

2004	Circulation Research
1998 - 2008	Arteriosclerosis Thrombosis and Vascular Biology
1991 -	Japanese Journal of Medicine
1991 -	The American Journal of the Medical Sciences
1990 -	Atherosclerosis
1987 -	The Journal of Japan Atherosclerosis Society

Advisory Board

1995 - 1998	Journal of Lipid Research

2006 -	President, Japan Atherosclerosis Society
2007 -	Chairperson of Subcommittee for Aging, Committee of Clinical Medicine , Science Council of Japan
1992 -	Executive Vice-President,Japan Society of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology