Background
Tawara, Akihiko was born on June 18, 1947 in Fukuoka, Japan. Son of Tatsuhiko and Tamano Tawara.
Tawara, Akihiko was born on June 18, 1947 in Fukuoka, Japan. Son of Tatsuhiko and Tamano Tawara.
Doctor of Medicine, Kurume University, Japan, 1974. Doctor of Science, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan, 1982.
Clinical staff Kyushu University, 1978—1983, assistant professor medicine, 1989—1996. Director Saiseikai Hospital, Fukuoka, 1983—1986. Postdoctoral fellow Baylor University College Medicine, Houston, 1987—1989.
Associate professor medicine Wakayama Medical College, Japan, 1996—1998. Professor medicine, chairman department University Occupational and Environmental Health Japan, Kitakyushu, since 1999. Public lecturer Yamaguchi (Japan) Ophthalmologists Society, 2000, Wakayama Health Center, 1996.
Member of Japanese Society Occupational Medicine and Traumatology (councilor since 2002), Association Research in Vision and Ophthalmology, International Society Eye Research, Japanese Society Ophthalmic Pathology since 1999, Japan Glaucoma Society since 1997, (Suda research award 1990), Japanese Ophthalmol. Society since 2001, (editor Journal since 2001).
Married Kazuko Kitazaki, November 4, 1974. 2 children.