TERAKAWA Naoki

  • Director, Nissay Hospital, Osaka, Japan
  • Professor Emeritus, Tottori University, Tottori, Japan

Degree

  • Receiving the MD in 1971 (Tottori University School of Medicine)
  • Receiving the PhD in 1982 (Osaka University Medical School)

Employment

  • Clinical Fellow at Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Osaka University Medical School (1971-1976)
  • Research Fellow at Department of Pathology (Professor Keishi Matsumoto), Osaka University Medical School (1976-1977)
  • Research Fellow at Department of Biochemistry (Professor Leo T Samuels), University of Utah (1977-1979)
  • Clinical Associate (1980-1988) and Assistant Professor (1988-1990) at Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Osaka University Medical School
  • Professor and Chairman of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Tottori University School of Medicine (1990-2008)

Professor Terakawa specialises in the field of medical hormones and cancer,  and endometriosis.

Science

  • Memberships in Japan Society of Obstetrics and Gynaecology
  • Scientific Society: Japanese Endocrine Society
  • Japan Society for Reproductive Medicine
  • Japanese Cancer Association
  • Endocrine Society
  • American Society for Reproductive Medicine
  • American Association for Cancer Research
  • World Endometriosis Society

Professor Terakawa has been a WES Ambassador since 2011.