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Robert Yoshiyuki Osamura

• Degree:M.D. Ph.D.
• Business Address:
  Nippon Koukan Hospital
  1-2-1, Koukandori, Kawasaki-ku, Kawasaki, Kanagawa, Japan. 210-0852
  
• E-mail address: osamura@keio.jp

Academic career:

• Mar.1970　Graduated from Keio University School of Medicine, Tokyo
• Apr.1970　Instructor, Department of Pathology, Keio University School of Medicine
• Jul.1970-Jun.1974　Resident in Pathology University of Colorado Medical Center
• Jul.1974-Aug.1975　Clinical Fellow, Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, Michigan
• Aug.1975-Mar.2010　Department of Pathology, Tokai University School of Medicine
• Apr.1988-Mar.2010　Professor, Department of Pathology, Tokai University School of Medicine
• Apr.1996-Mar.2005　Associate Dean, Tokai University School of Medicine
• Nov.2009-Nov.2018　Clinical Professor, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California
• Apr.2010-present　Professor Emeritus, Tokai University
• Apr.2010-Mar.2016　Professor, International University of Health and Welfare(IUHW)
• Apr.2015-present　Visiting Professor, Teikyo University College of Medical Technology
• Mar.2016-present　Visiting Professor, Keio University School of Medicine

Appointments for International and Domestic Societies (2020):

• President, International Academy of Pathology (IAP)
• Past President, the International Academy of Cytology (IAC)
• Past Chair, the Japanese Society of Clinical Cytology (JSCC)
• Past Chair, the Japanese Society of Pathology (JSP)
• Past President, the International Federation of the Societies of Histochemistry and Cytochemistry (IFSHC)
• Past Vice President (Asia), the International Academy of Pathology (IAP)
• Past President, the Japanese Society of Histochemistry and Cytochemistry (JSHC)
• Senior Councilor, the Japan Endocrine Society (JES)

Editorial Board:

• Modern Pathology
• Acta Cytologica
• Diagnostic Cytopathology
• J Histochemisty & Cytochemistry（JHC）
• Pathology International
• Acta Histochem et Cytochem（AHC）

Awards

• Physician's recognition Award, AMA, 1976
• First prize, MAS, 1997
• Congress Recognition Award, the Japanese Society of Clinical Cytology, 2002
• Japan Pathology Award 2003
• Yoshimura Award, the Japan Society for Pituitary Research, 2004
• Takamatsu Award, The Japan Society of Histochemistry and Cytochemistry, 2008
• Distinguished Endocrinologist　Award, The Japanese Society of Clinical Cytology, 2009
• Paul Nakane Prize, the International Federation of Societies of Histochemistry & Cytochemistry, 2012
• Kazumasa Masubuchi Life-time Achievement in Clinical Cytology Award, 2013

Publications in English

• Total 521 international referee journals
• WHO Classification of Tumours of Endocrine Organs, WHO/IARC Classification of Tumours, 4th Edition, Volume 10, 2017, Edited by Lloyd RV, Osamura RY, Klöppel G, Rosai J