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Biography of Professor Hitoshi Ohto, the Invited Editor for this Theme, Disasters and Blood Transfusion
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Brief biography
Biography of Professor Hitoshi Ohto, the Invited Editor for this Theme, Disasters and Blood Transfusion
Hitoshi Ohto has now edited the theme issue of Transfusion and Apheresis Science entitled “Disasters and Blood Transfusion” as a guest editor. He is chair of Department of Blood Transfusion and Transplantation Immunology, Fukushima Medical University (FMU), Japan. He graduated from FMU (MD) in 1977 and finished PhD thesis of medicine in 1984 at the University of Tokyo. His research focuses chiefly on bi-way of fetomaternal micro-transfusion
and its consequences to mother and child, including transmission of pathogens and alloimmune responses. He has studied mother-to-infant transmission of hepatitis viruses, and infantile microchimerism during and after pregnancy. He has contributed to world-wide transfusion safety initiatives, especially the prevention of transfusion-associated graft-versus-host disease, which is uniformly fatal, by introducing universal irradiation of cellular transfusion components at FMU in 1989, the first in the world. He has published more than 180 peer-reviewed scientific papers in international top journals. In the aftermath of the 2011 East Japan Mega-earthquake and nuclear power-plant accident, he has served the people in Fukushima, as the dean of School of Medicine, a director of Health Management Survey and as a trustee of FMU. Hitoshi Ohto * Blood Transfusion and Transplantation Immunology, Fukushima Medical University, Hikariga-oka 1, Fukushima City, Fukushima 960-1295, Japan * E-mail address: [email protected]
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.transci.2016.09.004 1473-0502/© 2016 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
Please cite this article in press as: Hitoshi Ohto, Biography of Professor Hitoshi Ohto, the Invited Editor for this Theme, Disasters and Blood Transfusion, Transfusion and Apheresis Science (2016), doi: 10.1016/j.transci.2016.09.004
Contents lists available at ScienceDirect
Transfusion and Apheresis Science j o u r n a l h o m e p a g e : w w w. e l s e v i e r. c o m / l o c a t e / t r a n s c i
Brief biography
Biography of Professor Hitoshi Ohto, the Invited Editor for this Theme, Disasters and Blood Transfusion
Hitoshi Ohto has now edited the theme issue of Transfusion and Apheresis Science entitled “Disasters and Blood Transfusion” as a guest editor. He is chair of Department of Blood Transfusion and Transplantation Immunology, Fukushima Medical University (FMU), Japan. He graduated from FMU (MD) in 1977 and finished PhD thesis of medicine in 1984 at the University of Tokyo. His research focuses chiefly on bi-way of fetomaternal micro-transfusion
and its consequences to mother and child, including transmission of pathogens and alloimmune responses. He has studied mother-to-infant transmission of hepatitis viruses, and infantile microchimerism during and after pregnancy. He has contributed to world-wide transfusion safety initiatives, especially the prevention of transfusion-associated graft-versus-host disease, which is uniformly fatal, by introducing universal irradiation of cellular transfusion components at FMU in 1989, the first in the world. He has published more than 180 peer-reviewed scientific papers in international top journals. In the aftermath of the 2011 East Japan Mega-earthquake and nuclear power-plant accident, he has served the people in Fukushima, as the dean of School of Medicine, a director of Health Management Survey and as a trustee of FMU. Hitoshi Ohto * Blood Transfusion and Transplantation Immunology, Fukushima Medical University, Hikariga-oka 1, Fukushima City, Fukushima 960-1295, Japan * E-mail address: [email protected]
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.transci.2016.09.004 1473-0502/© 2016 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
Please cite this article in press as: Hitoshi Ohto, Biography of Professor Hitoshi Ohto, the Invited Editor for this Theme, Disasters and Blood Transfusion, Transfusion and Apheresis Science (2016), doi: 10.1016/j.transci.2016.09.004