Hisako Ikeda

Background

Ikeda, Hisako was born on July 31, 1928 in Osaka, Japan. Daughter of Kiguma and Chizu (Adachi) Okamula.

Education

Bachelor, Tokyo Bunrika University, 1953; Master of Arts, Tokyo Bunrika University, 1955; Doctor of Philosophy, London U., 1960; Doctor of Science, London U., 1980.

Career

Research assistant, Institute of Psychiatry, London, 1956-1960; Alexander Piggot fellow, Institute of Ophthalmology, London, 1961-1965; lecturer neurophysiology, Institute of Ophthalmology, London, 1966-1967; senior lecturer ophthalmology, Royal College of Surgeons, London, 1968-1972; senior lecturer physiology, St. Thomas' Hospital Medical School, London, 1973-1976; head vision research unit, Rayne Institute, London, since 1974; professor visual physiology, St. Thomas Hospital Medical School, London, since 1982. Honorary consultant St. Thomas' Hospital, London, since 1990. Emeritus professor visual physiology United Medical and Dental Schools Guy's and St. Thomas' Hospital.

Examiner Doctors of Philosophy and others U. London, U. Oxford, U. Cambridge, U. Keele, United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Australia, since 1977. Referee grants and other MRCand other bodies, Europe, United States, Australia, since 1973.

Achievements

• Hisako Ikeda has been listed as a noteworthy Visual neurophysiologist by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Member Physiological Society, International Society for the Clinical Electrophysiology ofVision, International Brain Research Organisation, European Neurosci. Association, Assn.for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology, International Society for Eye Research, Research Defense Society.

Interests

• Avocations: music, gardening, painting, grandchildren.

Connections

Married Tadashi Ikeda, June 13, 1949(divorced February 1967). 1 child, Utako Ikeda. Married John Horace Wolstencroft, May 17, 1974.

Children: Alan Wolstencroft, Helen Wolstencroft.

Father:

Kiguma Okamula

Mother:

Chizu (Adachi) Okamula

Spouse:

Tadashi Ikeda

Spouse:

John Horace Wolstencroft

child:

Helen Wolstencroft Ikeda

child:

Utako Ikeda

child:

Alan Wolstencroft Ikeda