Sadanori Akita MD, PhD

Sadanori Akita did his residency in plastic surgery at Nagasaki University Hospital. He received his PhD from the Graduate School of Nagasaki University specializing in plastic and reconstructive surgery. He later did a research fellowship at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) under the supervision of Shlomo Melmed MD on a cytokine expression and its regulation in vivo by using a transgenic animal model. Dr. Akita served as president of the World Union of Wound Healing Societies from 2012- 2016. He is also currently president of the Asian Wound Care Association (AWCA). His research interests include: cytokines and stem cells in wound healing, difficult wound healing (radiation injury), regenerative tissue enhancement to HIV-drug related-wasting patients, reconstructive surgery, burn and craniofacial surgery. Dr. Akita’s publications include 65 peer-reviewed English original articles, 12 English overviews, and 14 English book chapters with 3 editorship of the books.