Background
Nakazawa, Mitsuru was born on January 20, 1956 in Hakodate, Hokkaido, Japan. Son of Mitsutake and Chie (Kanazawa) Nakazawa.
Nakazawa, Mitsuru was born on January 20, 1956 in Hakodate, Hokkaido, Japan. Son of Mitsutake and Chie (Kanazawa) Nakazawa.
Doctor of Medicine, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan, 1980. Doctor of Philosophy, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan, 1989.
Resident in ophthalmology, Tohoku University Hospital, Sendai, 1980-1982;
fellow in ophthalmology, Tohoku University Hospital, Sendai, 1982-1985;
member ophthalmology staff, Tohoku University Hospital, Sendai, 1985, 88-89;
assistant professor ophthalmology, Tohoku University Hospital, Sendai, 1989-1995;
associate professor ophthalmology, Tohoku University Hospital, Sendai, 1995-1998;
professor, chairman opthalmology, Hirosaki (Japan) U. School of Medicine, since 1998;
postdoctoral assistant ophthalmology, U. Cincinnati, 1985-1988. Board directors Tohoku U. Eye Bank, Japanese Society Ophthalmic Diabetology. Member Research Committee on Chorioretinal Degenerations and Optic Atrophy, Ministry Health and Welfare, 1996.
President Hirosaki U. Eye Bank, since 1998.
Member Japanese Society Ophthalmology (councilor since 1999, Academy award 1996), Japan Ophthalmologists Association, Association Research in Vision and Ophthalmology, Japanese Society Ophthalmic Surgeons, Japanese Society Clinical Vision and Electrophysilogy, Vitreoretina Society Japan (board directors since 2001), Japanese Society Ocular Circulation (board directors since 2003), Japanese Society Gene and Clinical Practice, Japanese Society Low Vision.
Married Junko Oizumi, April 8, 1980. 1 child, Yuki.