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Kotaro Yoshimura

Kotaro Yoshimura MD, PhD

Plastic Surgery
Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan

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Kotaro Yoshimura. M.D. is a professor and chairman of the Department of Plastic Surgery at Jichi Medical University, Japan. He received his medical degree and a doctorate from the University of Tokyo. After returning from research work at the University of Michigan, he worked for the University of Tokyo and directed his laboratory. His research interests cover skin/hair/scar biology, wound healing/angiogenesis, and regenerative medicine.

He published more than 150 full articles published in Medline-indexed journals as well as several textbook chapters and was awarded by the American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS) as a 38th Maliniac Lecturer in 2016. Prof. Yoshimura is currently an Asian Liaison of Plastic Surgery Research Council (PSRC) and a founding member and vice president of ISPRES.
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