Shunichi Yamashita

Dr. Shunichi Yamashita graduated from Nagasaki University School of Medicine in March 1978 and spent almost three years from July 1984 to March 1987 as the first endocrine research fellow at the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles. In October 1990, Dr. Yamashita became Professor of Molecular Medicine and International Radiation Health at the Atomic Bomb Disease Institute, Nagasaki University School of Medicine. He has been deeply involved in Chernobyl and Semipalatinsk medical aid and research projects for 25 years. Professor Yamashita is the Adviser to the Governor of Fukushima Prefecture on Health Risk Managemen immediately after the Fukusihma Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) accident. He was dispatched from Nagasaki University to Fukushima for two years after the Fukushima NPP accident. Since April 2013, he has been mainly in Nagasaki University but partly in Fukushima Medical University. He is still in charge of the Fukushima Health Management Survey, especially for the thyroid examination as a part-time Vice-President of Fukushima Medical University. Professor Yamashita is the Director of the WHO collaborating center for research on Radiation Emergency Medical Preparedness and Response Network, the council member of Science Council of Japan and the member of the Nuclear Diaster Expert Group of the Prime Minister Office of Japan. He is the former President of the Japan Thyroid Association.