Background
Taketomo, Yasuhiko was born on July 30, 1921 in Tokyo. Came to the United States 1950. Son of Torao and Yoshi (Fujii) Taketomo.
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Yasuhiko Taketomo
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Bachelor of Science, Daiichi Koto-Gakko, Tokyo, 1942. Doctor of Medicine, Osaka University, Japan, 1945. Doctor of Philosophy, Osaka University, Japan, 1949.
Certified in Psychoanalytic Medicine, Columbia University College Physicians and Surgeons, 1959. Doctor of Medicine, State University of New York Board Regents, 1981.
Career
Research fellow, assistant in biochemistry and neuropsychiatry, Osaka U., 1945-1950;
resident in psychiatry, Albany (New York) Medical College, 1950-1951;
resident in psychiatry, Worcester (Massachusetts) Eastern State Hospital, 1951-1952;
resident research psychiatrist, senior scientist research facility, Rockland Eastern State Hospital, Orangeburg, New York, 1952-1964;
research assistant, research associate, Columbia University College Physicians and Surgeons, New York City, 1962-1964;
career scientist New York City Research Council, St. Vincent's Hospital and New York Medical College, New York City, 1964-1969;
unit chief, associate director residency program, Bronx Psychiatric Center, 1970-1988;
assistant professor/clinical professor psychiatry emeritus, Albert Einstein College Medicine, since 1970;
attending physician, Montefiore Medical Center/The Jack D. Weiler Hospital, Bronx, since 1976;
attending physician, St. Vincent's Hospital/Medical Center of New York, Westchester Facility, since 1989. Head transcultural psychiatry component Research Fellowship Progressive, department.psychiatry Albert Einstein College Medicine, since 1988. Academic chairman Japanese Center for Quality of Life Studies, Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center, since 1992.
Lecturer in psychiatry Columbia University College Physicians & Surgeons, since 1997.
Achievements
Membership
Fellow American Psychiatric Association, American Academy Psychoanalysis (trustee since 1990). Member American Psychoanalytic Association, Association for Psychoanalytic Medicine, International Psychoanalytic Association, Japan Psycho-Analytic Association.
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Married Haruko Kishimoto, May 27, 1946. Children: Masahiko, Toshihiko.
