Kazuya Higashino

Background

Higashino, Kazuya was born on September 20, 1930 in Osaka, Japan. Son of Toshimasa Oue and Aiko Higashino.

Education

Doctor of Medicine, Osaka University, 1954. Postgraduate, Osaka University, 1960. Doctor of Philosophy, Osaka University, 1960.

Career

Intern Osaka University Hospital, 1954-1955, staff department medicine, 1960-1972, lecturer, 1972-1974, assistant professor, 1974-1978, associate professor, 1978-1981. Research associate University Pittsburgh, 1964-1965. Vice president Kinki Center Hospital, Itami, Hyogo, 1981-1982.

Professor medicine Hyogo College Medicine, Nishinomiya, 1983-1999, professor emeritus, since 1999. Hospital director Research Foundation for Gout, Shinjuku, Tokyo, since 1983. Director Japanese Foundation Applied Enzymology, Osaka, since 1991.

Director Osaka Foundation Promotion of Clinical Immunology, since 1991.

Achievements

• Kazuya Higashino has been listed as a noteworthy internist, educator by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Member Japanese Society Internal Medicine (councilor 1979-1996, distinguished member), Japanese Society Gastroenterology (councilor 1987-1996), Japan Society Clinical Biochemistry and Metabolism (councilor since 1984, director since 1990), Japanese Cancer Association (councilor since 1984), Japanese Society Uric Acid, Purine and Pyrimidine Disorders (councilor, director since 1976), Japanese Society Respiratory Disease, Japanese Geriatric Society (councilor since 1989), Japanese Association Gout and Nucleic Acid Metabolism (chairman board directors since 1999), Liver Cancer Study Group Japan (secretary 1990-1996), New York Academy of Sciences, Rotary.

Connections

Married Tamiko Okuda, February 27, 1962: children: Koji, Mayuko.

Father:

Toshimasa Oue

Mother:

Aiko Higashino

Spouse:

Tamiko Okuda

child:

Koji Higashino

child:

Mayuko Higashino