New IFMBE Honorary Life MemberFumihiko KajiyaFumihiko Kajiya was born in Yawatahama, Ehime, Japan in 1940. He received a B.M. from Osaka University, Medical School in 1965, and an M.D. from Ministry of Health Welfare, Japanese Government in 1966. His PhD was awarded from Electronics Engineering, Osaka University in the field of "Compartmental Analysis" in 1977 (related book published from Karger in 1984). He served as a research associate in both 1st Department of Medicine (professor H .Abe), Medical School and Electronics Engineering (Professors K. Miyawaki and S. Kodama), Osaka University from 1967 to 1977. He moved to Kawasaki Medical School, Kurashiki, Okayama as a professor of Medical Engineering and System Cardiology and worked there for more than 20 years. He was then invited to the Graduate School of Medicine and Dentistry, Okayama University as a Professor in the Department of Cardiovascular Physiology and BME in 2000 and is helping to establish a Cooperation Research Centre among Medicine, Dentistry and Engineering in the University. He is currently a visiting professor of Hokkaido University, Medical School, Sapporo and Kawasaki Medical School, and a visiting senior scientist at the Institute of Physical and Chemical Research (RIKEN), Saitama. As for the activity in IFMBE, Kajiya served as an AC member (1985-1991), Vice President (1991-1994) and President (1994-1997). He held the chair of the "Asia-Pacific" working group and made efforts to found IFMBE "Asia-Pacific Conference on MBE" (initially called "Far Eastern Conference"). The 1st conference was held in Tokyo under the presidency of Dr Yoshimoto, Hokkaido University in 1990, in which Kajiya held the vice-presidency. In 1991, he helped organise the Kyoto World Congress on Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering (president: H Abe) as the secretary general, leading its success with more than 3000 participants. More recently, he has been promoting "Physiome Project" as a powerful successor of Genome, obtaining successful outcomes. Domestically, he was President of Japanese Society for MBE (1998-2000) after serving as vice president (1994-1996). He has chaired domestic and international conferences, such as: the Japanese Biorheology Society (1982), Cardiovascular System Dynamics Society(1987), Okayama International Medical Engineering Forum(1994 & 1997), Japanese Society for MBE(1998), and Japanese Society of Microcirculation (2001). He has played important role in other BME-related fields over the years, e.g., Project Leader of Medical Imaging by Superphoton Synchrotron Radiation (SPring-8), Chairman of ISO TC210 in Japan, and acted as a reviewer of various grants in Japan and other countries. His research interests lie mainly in (1) coronary hemodynamics, (2) in vivo microvisualization of coronary, kidney and lung microcirculation, (3) interaction of monocyte with endotherial cell in relation with atherogenesis and (4) nano-order analysis of actin-myosis interaction of cardiac myocyte by SPring-8. He has published more than 100 peer-reviews papers (printed in English). He belongs to many scientific societies other than BME e.g.,Physiological Soc.Japan (bd. dirs,2002-), Japanese Soc. Microcirculation (bd.dirs.1998-), Japanese Soc. Biorheology (bd. dirs 1982) and Japanese Soc. Laser Medicine (bd. dirs. 2003-). Currently, he is the editorial board member or associate editor of Am J Physiol (heart & circulatory,1999-), Med. Biol. Engineering and Computing (2000-), Heart and Vessels (1985-) Cadiovasc. Engineering (2001-), J Mechanics in med. Biol.(2001-) and ASME J Biomech. Engineering (2003). He received the Berz Prize Boehringer Ingelheim, Tokyo, 1968, 73, the Research Encourage Award Science News Paper, Tokyo, 1974, The Sanyo Press Prize, Okayama, 1997, the Ogino International Prize (JSMBE), Tokyo, 1999, College of Fellow (AIMBE 1997-), Fellow of International Academy (IFMBE 2000-) and Fellow of American Heart Association.
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