PROFILE

SHIMIZU Toshiaki, M.D., Ph.D.


Department of Preventive Medicine for Mass Infections

Short Biography

1977.04-1983.03
M.D. Juntendo University Faculty of Medicine
1984.04-1988.03
Ph.D. Juntendo University Graduate School of Medicine
The thesis: Prostaglandin and fatty acid metabolism in the patients with congenital biliary atresia.
1988.07-1991.08
Assistant in the Department of Pediatrics, Juntendo University Faculty of Medicine
1990.10-1992.09
Research Fellow in the Department of Pediatrics, University of Gothenburg, Sweden
1997.02-1999.09
Lecturer in the Department of Pediatrics, Juntendo University Faculty of Medicine
1999.10-2007.07
Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Juntendo University Faculty of Medicine
2001.10-2002.04
Research Fellow in the Child Nutrition Research Center, Adelaide University, Australia
2007.08-Present
Professor and Chairman, Department of Pediatrics, Juntendo University Faculty of Medicine
2011.07-Present
Professor, Department of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, Juntendo University Graduate School of Medicine
 

Keywords

  • Pediatric nutrition
  • Pediatric gastroenterology
  • Infectious disease medicine
  • Lipid metabolism
  • Medical education

Main Research Topics and Interests

  • Effects of n-3 PUFAs
  • Epidemiology and mucosal immunity of IBD
  • Pathophysiology of H.pylori infection
  • Preventive medicine for mass infection
  • Effects of probiotics

Publications (in English)

  • Original Articles: 323
  • Review Articles: 10
  • Books: 5
  • h-Index: 26 (Web of Science)
  • Sum of Times Cited: 3,253 (Web of Science)

Recent Main Publications

  • Sato H, Nakao A, Sato K, Otomo Y, Niijima S, Shimizu T. Comparison of time to positivity of pediatric blood cultures obtained within the first year of life and in later years. J Infect Chemother 26:813-817,2020
  • Tsujiwaki A, Hisata K, Tohyama Y, Matsunaga N, Uehara Y, Sasaki T, Hiramatsu K, Shimizu T. Epidemiology of methicillin resistant staphylococcus aureus in a Japanese NICU. Pediatr Int 62:811-919,2020
  • Horigome A, Hisata K, Odamaki T, Iwabuchi N, Xiao JZ, Shimizu T. Colonization of Supplemented Bifidobacterium breve M-16V in Low Birth Weight Infants and Its Effects on Their Gut Microbiota Weeks Post-administration. Front Microbiol 12:610080. 2021
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Other Specific Comments

  • Prevention of mass infection due to influenza virus and inhibition of nosocomial infection by MRSA using chlorine dioxide.

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