Ito Kasuke

Background

Kasuke, Ito was born on July 20, 1911 in Saijo, Ehime, Japan. Son of Makiichi and Kuni Ito.

Education

Doctor of Medicine, Kyoto University, Japan, 1943.

Career

Lecturer dermatology Kyoto University Medical College, 1943-1948. Research chief Pharmaceutical Research Institute, Osaka, Japan, 1949-1979. Professor, chairman department dermatology Gifu (Japan) Medical College, 1952-1975.

Founder, director Castellani Research Institute, Gifu, since 1971. Professor, chairman department dermatology Fujita Health University, Toyoake City, Nagoya, 1975-1981. Research fellow department dermatology Essen (Germany) University, 1955-1956, Erich Hoffmann Gesellschaft, Bonn, Germany, 1955-1956, Castellani Laboratory, Lisbon, Portugal, 1971.

Organizer, secretary general II World Congress of International Society Tropical Dermatology, Kyoto, 1969. Member World Health Organization International Union Against Venereal Disease, Padua, Italy, since 1977. World Health Organization short-term consultant National Institute Dermatology, Bangkok, Thailand, 1975.

Honorary advisor National Institute Dermatology, Ministry Public Health Thailand, Bangkok, 1972. Lecturer Sir Aldo Castellani Inaugular Memorial lecturer Ceylon Physicians College, 1989.

Achievements

• Ito Kasuke has been listed as a noteworthy Research institute executive by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Board trustees Kansai Center Health and Human Service, Osaka, since 1985. Board directors Japan Association International Health, Tokyo, since 1987. Member International Society Human and Animal Mycology (emeritus), International Society Tropical Dermatology (honorary vice president 1979), Morgagni Medical Society (honorary 1993), New York Academy Medicine (life, honorary fellow 1979), American Academy Dermatology (life), Royal Society Medicine (life honorary), International Society Dermatology (advisory council since 1962), New York Academy of Sciences (life), Charles Darwin Associates.

Interests

• Avocation: baseball.

Connections

Married Nisato Mizushima, March 28, 1938. Children: Yuko, Hideki, Shinri.

Father:

Makiichi Ito

Mother:

Kuni Ito

Spouse:

Nisato Mizushima

child:

Shinri Kasuke

child:

Hideki Kasuke

child:

Yuko Kasuke