Profile
AKIRA KAWASHIMA
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- Name
- Akira Kawashima
- Sex
- Male
- Birth Date
- October 27, 1957
- Birth Place
- Tokyo, Japan
- Citizenship
- Japan
- Marital status
- Married
Education
- 1986-1990
- Postgraduate School
Tokyo Women’s Medical University, Tokyo, Japan
Ph.D. (Dr. of Medical Science) awarded 3/90 - 1977-1983
- Hokkaido University School of Medicine, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan
M.D. awarded 5/83
Postdoctoral Training
- 1993-1995
- Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Medicine Massachusetts General Hospital & Harvard Medical School Boston, MA, USA
- 1989-1993
- Guest Researcher, Department of Molecular Pathology Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Gerontology, Tokyo, Japan
- 1985-1986
- Clinical Fellow in Medicine Kidney Center Tokyo Women’s Medical University, Tokyo, Japan
- 1983-1985
- Resident in Internal Medicine Tokyo Women’s Medical University, Tokyo, Japan
Academic Appointments
- 2016/4-Presemt
- Visiting Professor Faculty of Medicine Hiroshima University
- 2015/4-Present
- Visiting Professor Niigata University of Pharmacy and Applied Life Sciences
- 2014/4-Present
- Professor Department of Acupuncture and Moxibustion Faculty of Health Sciences Tokyo Ariake University of Medical and Health Sciences
- 2006/4-Present
- Director The Institute of Integrative Medicine
- 2004/3-2014/3
- Director Associate Professor Division of Natural Medicine Aoyama Institute of Women’s and Natural Medicine Concurrent with Aoyama Hospital Concurrent with Institute of Oriental Medicine Concurrent with Department of Medicine and Blood Purification Kidney Center Tokyo Women’s Medical University, Tokyo, Japan
- 2003-2004/2
- Director Assistant Professor Division of Natural Medicine Aoyama Institute of Women’s and Natural Medicine Concurrent with Aoyama Hospital Concurrent with Institute of Oriental Medicine Tokyo Women’s Medical University, Tokyo, Japan
- 2002-2004/2
- Assistant Professor Institute of Geriatrics Tokyo Women’s Medical University, Tokyo, Japan
- 2001-2004/2
- Assistant Professor Department of Medicine and Blood Purification Kidney Center Tokyo Women’s Medical University, Tokyo, Japan
- 1990-2000
- Instructor, Department of Medicine Kidney Center Tokyo Women’s Medical University, Tokyo, Japan
Teaching Experience
- 2015-Present
- Integrative Medicine for pharmacy students in Niigata University of Pharmacy and Applied Life Sciences
- 2014-Present
- Integrative Medicine for acupuncture students in Tokyo Ariake University of Medical and Health Sciences
- 2009-2017
- Integrative Medicine for residents and medical students in Tokyo Women’s Medical University
- 2008-Present
- Integrative Medicine for nursing students in Hiroshima University
- 1990-2017
- Nephrology for residents and medical students in Tokyo Women’s Medical University
- 2010
- Integrative Medicine for nursing students in Miyazaki University
- 2010
- Integrative Medicine for nursing students in Musashino University
- 2009
- Integrative Medicine for medical students in National Defense Medical College
Licensure and Certification
- 2011
- Teaching Fellow of the Society for Integrative Medicine Japan
- 2010
- Certified Hypnotherapist of National Guild of Hypnotists
- 2010
- Certified Hypnotherapist of American Board of Hypnotherapy
- 2009
- Fellow of the Society for Integrative Medicine Japan
- 2006
- Fellow of Japanese Physicians Society for Homeopathy
- 2002
- Fellow of Japanese Association for Alternative, Complementary and Traditional Medicine
- 2002
- Licensed Associates Member of Faculty of Homeopathy
- 1998
- Teaching Fellow of Japanese Society of Dialysis Therapy
- 1995
- Teaching Fellow of Japanese Society of Nephrology
- 1991
- Fellow of Japanese Society of Dialysis Therapy
- 1991
- Fellow of Japanese Society of Nephrology
- 1989
- Fellow of the Japanese Society of Internal Medicine
- 1987
- Board Certified Member of the Japanese Society of Internal Medicine
- 1983
- National Board of Medical Doctor
Major Memberships
- 2015
- Japan Institute of Hypnosis
- 2011
- Japanese Society of Preventive Medicine
- 2010
- National Guild of Hypnotists
- 2010
- American Board of Hypnotherapy
- 2010
- The International Society for Complementary Medicine Research
- 2008
- Japanese Society of Psychosomatic Medicine
- 2007
- International Society of Life Information Science
- 2007
- Japanese Society of Preventive Medicine
- 2007
- Japanese Society of Aromatherapy
- 2007
- Therapeutic Hormesis Application Research
- 2002
- Japanese Society of Anti-Aging Medicine
- 2002
- Faculty of Homeopathy
- 2001
- Japanese Society for Therapeutics & Engineering
- 2000
- Japanese Society of Integrative Medicine
- 2000
- Japanese Society for Apheresis
- 2000
- The Society for Integrative Medicine Japan
- 1999
- Japanese Physicians Society for Homeopathy
- 1998
- Japanese Association for Alternative, Complementary and Traditional Medicine
- 1997
- The Japanese Society for Oriental Medicine
- 1993
- American Society of Nephrology
- 1989
- International Society of Nephrology
- 1985
- The Japanese Society of Internal Medicine
- 1985
- Japanese Society of Nephrology
- 1985
- Japanese Society of Dialysis Therapy
Officers and Committees Assignments
- President
- The Institute of Integrative Medicine
Therapeutic Hormesis Application Research - Executive Director
- Japan Holistic Medical Society
- Director
- Japanese Society of Preventive Medicine
Japanese Association of Eastern Medicine
International Society of Life Information Science
Japan Institute of Hypnosis
Japanese Society of Aromatherapy - Councilor
- Japanese Society of Nephrology
Japanese Society for Therapeutics and Engineering
Japanese Society of Anti-Aging Medicine
The Society for Comparative Integrative Medicine Japan - Inspector
- Japanese Society of Phytotherapy
