Educational Background

College: Harvard University, 1989, A.B. (Magna Cum Laude, Biology)

Medical School: University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine, 1994, M.D.

Internship: University of Chicago, Internal Medicine, 1994-1995, 1996-1998

Residency: University of California San Francisco, Anesthesiology, 1995-1996

Fellowship: University of California San Diego, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, 1998-2001

Professional Career

Faculty at UCSD since 2001. Fellowship program director 2009-2017. Currently, Professor of Medicine in the Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, Sleep Medicine, & Physiology. Section Chief of Pulmonary Vascular Medicine. Medical Director of Pulmonary Thromboendarterectomy Program.

Research Field

Evaluation and treatment of pulmonary arterial hypertension

Interventional and medical management of chronic thromboembolic disease

Perioperative management following pulmonary thromboendarterectomy

Balloon pulmonary angioplasty for chronic thromboembolic disease

Clinical trials in pulmonary hypertension

Papers, Books, etc. presented or published by your name

As of Nov 2025: 132 peer-reviewed publications on pulmonary hypertension including, pulmonary arterial hypertension and chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension

Lead author for the 5th, 6th, and 7th World Symposium on Pulmonary Hypertension task force on “Chronic Thromboembolic Pulmonary Hypertension”. 4th World Symposium on Pulmonary Hypertension task force member: “Endpoints and Clinical Trial Design in PAH” and “Interventional and Surgical Modalities of Treatment in PH”.

Educational Background

1976 – 1978 Premedical Course, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Chiba, Japan

1978 – 1982 M.D., Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Tokyo, Japan

2000 Ph.D. (Doctor of Medicine), Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Tokyo, Japan

Professional Career

1991 Board certified in Pediatrics, Japanese Pediatric Society

2011 Board certified in Pediatric Cardiologist, Japanese Society of Pediatric Cardiology and Cardiac Surgery

2011 Board certified in PALS provider, American Heart Association

Research Field

Japanese Medical Specialty Board and Instructor of Pediatrics

Specialty Board of Pediatric Cardiology

Honorary fellow of Japanese Society of Pediatric Cardiology and Cardiac Surgery

Honorary fellow of Japanese Pulmonary Circulation and Pulmonary Hypertension Society

Papers, Books, etc. presented or published by your name

Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator for Primary Prevention in Children With Arrhythmogenic Right Ventricular Cardiomyopathy: A Case Series. Cureus. 2025 Jan 10;17(1):e77253

Systematic Review of the Application of Pulmonary Hypertension Treatments in Ventricular Septal Defect, Pulmonary Atresia, and Major Aortopulmonary Collateral Arteries. J Clin Med. 2026 Jan 30;15(3):1087. doi: 10.3390/jcm15031087