Position：
Emeritus Professor (Department of Innovative Cardiovascular Medicine,
Department of Evidence-Based Cardiovascular Medicine,
Graduated School of Medicine, Tohoku Unioversity)
Qualifications：
The Japanese Circulation Society Qualified Specialist Physician
Japanese Society of Internal Medicine Certified Internal Medicine Physician
Membership：
(President)
Japanese Association for Gender-Specific Medicine
(Vice-President)
Japanese College of Angiology
(Board member)
Japanese Heart Failure Society
Nitric Oxide Society of Japan
Japanese Society for Circulation Research
Japanese Association of Cardiac Rehabilitation
SFRR Japan
(Fellow)
American Heart Association
American Physiological Society
European Society of Cardiology
Affiliate Professors：
Mayo Clinic
Medical College of Wisconsin
University of Hong Kong
University of Iowa
University of South Alabama
Awards：
| 1985 | Young Investigator Award, Japanese Circulation Society |
| 1988 | Young Investigator Award, ACC |
| 1994 | Medical Research Encouragement Prize of The Japan Medical Association |
| 1999 | Sato Prize, Japanese Circulation Society, Japan Heart Foundation |
| 2001 | Distinguished Investigator Award on Vascular Pathophysiology (MOVD) |
| 2006 | Jeffrey M. Hoeg Award, American Heart Association |
| 2012 | Japan Medical Association Award |
| 2014 | The Commendation for Science and Technology by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology ( Prizes for Science and Technology / Development Category ) |
| 2014 | William Harvey Lecture Award, ESC |
| 2019 | The Commendation for Science and Technology by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology ( Prizes for Science and Technology / Research Category ) |
| 2019 | Society for Free Radical Research Japan, Society Award |
Scientific Activities：
Co-Editor：European Heart Journal, ESC
Associate Editor：Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis, and Vascular Biology (ATVB), AHA
Senior Guest Editor：International Journal of Cardiology
Senior Advisory Editor, Immediate Past Editor-in-Chief：Circulation Journal, JCS
Editorial Boards
( 11 journals [ International journal :6 / Domestic journal in English :5 ] ) ：
Circulation, American Journal of Physiology, Journal of Cardiovascular Pharmacology,
Tohoku Journal of Experimental Medicine, Heart and Vessels, etc.
Reviewers
( 27 journals [ International journal :26 / Domestic journal :1 ] ) ：
NEJM, JCI, PNAS, JACC, Hypertension, Cardiovascular Research, Stroke,
EJHF, FASEB Journal, etc.