TOSHIO NAKANISHI
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Pediatric Cardiology, Heart Institute, Tokyo Women’s
Medical University
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81-3-3353-8111
81-3-3356-0441
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8-1 Kawada-cho, Shinjuku, Tokyo, 162-8666, Japan
CURRENT POSITION：
♦ Department Chief
EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND：
RESEARCH INTERESTS：
♦ Interventional Cardiology
♦ Molecular biology of cardiovascular system
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Mechanisms of closure of ductus arteriosus after birth
Toshio Nakanishi is a Professor of Department of Pediatric Cardiology, Tokyo Women’s
Medical University, Tokyo, Japan. He was born in 1950 in Japan. He graduated Hiroshima
University, School of Medicine in 1974. After he finished residency in Pediatrics at Hiroshima
University, he became a fellow of Pediatric Cardiology at Heart Institute of Japan, Tokyo
Women's Medical College in 1976. After he finished a fellowship of Pediatric Cardiology, he
became a Research Fellow of Pediatric Cardiology at University of California, Los Angeles in
1977. He spent 5 years at UCLA. He received a Young Investigator's Award from American
Academy of Pediatrics in 1981. He returned to Japan in 1983 and became an Assistant
Professor of Pediatric Cardiology, Heart Institute of Japan, Tokyo Women's Medical College. In
1993, he became an Associate Professor of Pediatric Cardiology, Heart Institute of Japan,
Tokyo Women's Medical College. Since 1988, he is a chief of Pediatric Interventional
Catheterization Laboratory at Heart Institute of Japan, Tokyo Women's Medical University.
Since 2007, he is a chief of the Department of Pediatric Cardiology, Tokyo Women’s Medical
University, Tokyo, Japan. Since 2009, He is a President of Japanese Society of Pediatric
Cardiology and Cardiac Surgery.
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