Dr. Ichizo Tsujino

2005 recipient

Dr. Ichizo Tsujino graduated from Hokkaido University School of Medicine in 1992. He received his clinical training in internal medicine, cardiovascular medicine and interventional cardiology primarily at First Department of Medicine of Hokkaido University Hospital and at Hokkaido Social Insurance Hospital. In 2002, he received the degree of Doctor of Medical Science at Hokkaido University. He then joined the Center for Research in Cardiovascular Interventions at Stanford University as the 8th recipient of the Stanford-Getz Brothers Scholarship Program in July 2005. His research interests included the role of IVUS and other current imaging devices in field of the interventional cardiology, as well as the basic mechanisms of atherosclerosis particularly provoked by diabetes mellitus.