Yoshiaki Omura

Yoshiaki Omura
Department of Family & Community Medicine
New York Medical College, USA

Biography

Dr. Omura (M.D) Yokohama City University, with internship at Toyoko University Hospital, Tokyo and Sc.D. - in Pharmaco-Electrophysiology of Single Cardiac Cells, Columbia University, New York), far-reaching expertise is rooted in a strong academic background involving an unusual combination of fields including experimental physics (B.S. in Applied Physics, Waseda University, Tokyo--the founder of the SONY Corporation graduated from the same Engineering School--and three years in Graduate Experimental Physics, non-matriculated, Columbia University), medical electronics (Research Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, Manhattan College, where he introduced the first course in Biomedical Electronics), and basic and clinical medicine (Research Fellow in Cardiovascular Surgery, and Residency at the Cancer Research Hospital, Columbia University) from both Western and Oriental perspectives (several teaching and research Professorship appointments at various universities in Japan and the U.S.).