Meet the Volume Editor

Dr. Norihide Fukushima is a professor at and the president of the Graduate School of Nursing, Senri Kinran University, Japan. He is also a visiting director at the National Cerebral and Cardiovascular Center and a recruit professor in the Department of Surgery, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Japan. After graduating from Osaka University Medical School, Dr. Fukushima completed clinical training in the 1st Department of Surgery, Osaka

University Hospital and obtained his Ph.D. in prolonged cardiac immerse storage in 1992. He worked at Loma Linda University, California, USA as a research and clinical fellow from 1991 to 1994. He studied the long-term survival of allogeneic heart transplant goats after a 24-hour immersed preservation technique and concordant (Rhesus monkey to baboon) and discordant (pig to baboon) cardiac xenotransplantation. His team performed the first heart transplantation in Japan in 1999. He and his colleagues revised the Transplant Act in 2010 to increase deceased organ donation and heart transplantation in Japan. He has been working to develop therapeutic strategies for advanced heart failure, such as mechanical circulatory support and medical care.
