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Name	YOSHIMITSU Kitaro
Department	Institute of Advanced Biomedical Engineering and Science Faculty of Advanced Techno-Surgery
Title	Assistant Professor
[Joint Appointment]
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Areas of Expertise	Medical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, and Robotics
Qualifications	Ph.D.
Biography	2001–2004 Department of Bioengineering, Tokyo Denki University, B.S. 2004–2006 Department of Human and Engineered Environmental Studies, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, Tokyo Denki University, M.S. 2006-2008 Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Grant-in-Aid for JSPS Fellows (DC1) 2006–2009 Department of Human and Engineered Environmental Studies, Graduate School of Advanced Frontier Sciences, Tokyo Denki University, Ph.D. 2009-2010 Postdoctoral fellow, Institute of Advanced Biomedical Engineering and Science, Tokyo Women’s Medical University 2010-2017 Instructor, Institute of Advanced Biomedical Engineering and Science, Tokyo Women’s Medical University 2012–2014 Research Associate, Department of Radiology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital/Harvard Medical School 2015- Visiting Researcher, Department of Innovation for Medical information Technology, Jikei University School of Medicine 2017-2020 Senior Engineer, Surgical Treatment Colution Division, Hitachi, Ltd. Healthcare Business Unit 2017-2020 Part-time instructor, Tokyo Women’s Medical University 2017- Part-time instructor, Waseda University 2017- Part-time instructor, Fukushima Medical University Hospital 2019- Visiting Researcher, Center Hospital of the National Center for Global Health and Medicine(NCGM) 2020- Assistant Professor, Tokyo Women’s Medical University
Publications	TWMU Database
Awards and Honors	Hitachi Lumada Award (2020) Hitachi Business Award Silver Place (2018) Tokyo Denki University Medical Engineering Association Fukuda Award (2018) The Japan Society of Computer Aided Surgery Young Investigator Gold Award (2015) APEC Accelerator Network Summit & Global Challenge Intel Award (2015) ISCAS Kikuchi Frugal Technology Award (2015) INTEL REALSENSE APPICATION CHALLENGE 2nd Place (2015) Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, Innovative Technologies 2013 (2013) Japan Society of Computer Aided Surgery, Award in Medicine (2013) Japanese Society for Medical and Biological Engineering, Ogino Award (2013) Microsoft Innovation Award 2013 The Best Award (2013) Microsoft Innovation Award 2013 Business Division Award (2013) Microsoft Innovation Award 2013 Audience Award (2013) Tokyo Medical Association, “Group Research Award” Tokyo Women’s Medical University Faculty of Advanced Techno-Surgery:FATS (2010) The Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers, Information, Intelligence and Precision Equipment Division, Paper Award in IIP Category (2010) Niwa Yasujiro Award (2009) Estonian Summer School on Computer and Systems Science Poster Award (2008) The Society of Instrument and Control Engineers Best session Award (2005)
Related Websites	https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Kitaro_Yoshimitsu
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