Koichi Tanigawa MD, PhD

Dr Koichi Tanigawa, MD, PHD, Vice President of the Fukushima Medical University and Senior Director of Radiation Medical Science Center (Japan) Prof Tanigawa is vice president of Fukushima Medical University and director at Fukushima Global Medical Science Center. He is a graduate of Faculty of Medicine, Kyushu University in 1982, trained in emergency and critical care medicine in Fukuoka, Japan and Pittsburgh, USA. In response to the 2011 earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear crisis, Prof. Tanigawa led a radiation emergency medical team dispatched to Fukushima. Dr. Tanigawa reported the important issues learned from Fukushima Accident in Lancet, and has edited a book titled “Radiation Disaster Medicine” (Springer, 2013).