Dr. Yoshihiro Morino

1999 recipient

Dr. Yoshihiro Morino received his M.D. from Gifu University School of Medicine, Japan in 1993. In 1998 he completed his residency in Medicine and a cardiovascular fellowship at the Mitsui Memorial Hospital, Tokyo, Japan. He has the distinction of being the 2nd Stanford - St. Jude Medical Scholarship Program recipient. He worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Research in Cardiovascular Interventions at Stanford Medical Center for 3 years. The focus of his research was the role of intravascular ultrasound for catheter-based brachytherapy, drug-eluting stent, and tissue characterization of vulnerable plaque. Currently, he works as a staff physician at Itabashi chuo medical center as well as the director at Tokyo Core Analysis Laboratory (TCAL).