Background
Yokota, Akira was born on February 2, 1958 in Osaka, Japan. Son of Hirotane and Sanae Yokota.
Yokota, Akira was born on February 2, 1958 in Osaka, Japan. Son of Hirotane and Sanae Yokota.
Doctor of Medicine, Yamaguchi University Medical School, Japan, 1977—1983. Doctor of Philosophy, Osaka University Medical School, Japan, 1986—1990.
Resident doctor Osaka University Hospital, Osaka, Japan, 1983—1984, Kinki Central Hospital, Itami, Japan, 1984—1986. Graduate student Institute for Molecular and Cellular Biology, Osaka University, Suita, Japan, 1986—1990, post-doctoral fellow Japan, 1990—1991, Harvard Medical School, Boston, 1991—1993. Staff doctor Osaka Minami National Hospital, Kawachinagano, Japan, 1993—1994.
Assistant professor Osaka University Medical School, Suita, Japan, 1994—1997. Senior staff doctor Osaka Prefectural Habikino Hospital, Habikino, Japan, 1998—2003, Osaka Prefectural General Hospital, since 2003.
Member of Japan College Rheumatology, The Japanese Society of Internal Medicine.
Married Yuko Mayuzumi. Children: Seiji, Reiji.