Yoshio YAMAOKA​

 

 

 

 

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CURRENT POSITION

Dean; Oita University Faculty of Medicine, Yufu, Japan

Professor and Chair;  Department of Environmental and Preventive Medicine, Oita University Faculty of Medicine, Yufu, Japan                                           

E-mail: yyamaoka@oita-u.ac.jp

Professor; Department of Medicine-Gastroenterology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas

E-mail: yyamaoka@bcm.edu

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EDUCATIONS / TRAINING

Kyoto University                                                B.S.         Resource Technology         1983

Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine     M.S.        Medicine                               1990

Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine     PhD        Medicine                               1997

Baylor College of Medicine                                             Research Associate             1997-2000

 

POSITIONS

2001                      Instructor,                           Department of Medicine-GI, Baylor College of Medicine, USA

2002-2004            Assistant Professor,           Department of Medicine-GI, Baylor College of Medicine, USA

2004-2011            Associate Professor,          Department of Medicine-GI, Baylor College of Medicine, USA

2009-present       Professor and Chair,          Department of Environmental and Preventive Medicine, Oita University Faculty of Medicine, JAPAN

2011-present       Professor,                            Department of Medicine-GI, Baylor College of Medicine, USA

2019-present       Dean,                                    Oita University Faculty of Medicine, Japan

 

2006                       Visiting Professor, Shaheed Beheshti of Medical University, Iran

2008-2009             Visiting Clinical Professor, Hokkaido University Hospital, Japan

2015-present        Visiting Professor, Mongolian National University of Medical Sciences, Mongolia

2016-present       Adjunct Professor, Airlangga University, Indonesia

2019-present       Bualuang ASEAN Thammasat University, Thailand

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HONORS

1999, 2004, 2014, 2018     Japanese Society for Helicobacter Research, Uehara Award

2005                                     Japanese Society for Helicobacter Research, Kobayashi Rokuzo Award

 

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CURRENT ASSOCIATE EDITORS

World Journal of Gastroenterology (Strategy Associate Editors-in-Chief)          2008-Present

Gut Pathogens                                                                                                             2008-Present

PLoS ONE                                                                                                                      2011-Present

Gastroenterology Research and Practice                                                                2011-Present

Scientific Reports                                                                                                        2019-Present

 

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PUBLICATIONS

Impact Factor 1631.26 (2019 Nov.)

Scopus: h-index 60, papers for peer-reviewed international journals 316