Meet the Volume Editor

Dr. Norihide Fukushima is a Professor and President of Senri Kinran University Graduate School of Nursing, Japan, a Visiting Director at the National Cerebral and Cardiovascular Center, and a Recruit Professor at the Department of Surgery, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Japan. After graduating from Osaka University Medical School, Dr. Fukushima finished clinical training in the 1st Department of Surgery, Osaka University Hospital,

and obtained his Ph.D. in Prolonged Cardiac Immerse Storage in 1992. Dr. Fukushima worked at Loma Linda University, USA as a research and clinical fellow from 1991 to 1994. 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.
