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Pediatrics Lab
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A pediatrics lab that engages in clinical care and research on children's physical and mental health, aiming to turn incurable diseases into curable ones.
AboutAbout the lab
Turning incurable diseases into curable ones.
With the goal of "turning incurable diseases into curable ones," the Pediatrics Lab addresses every kind of problem that arises in children's bodies and minds.
Its clinical groups are endocrinology, neonatology, hemodynamics, nutrition and growth, hematology/oncology and immunology, nephrology and bone metabolism, clinical neurology, and neurometabolism and clinical genetics, along with the United Graduate School of Child Development (Research Center for Child Mental Development).
Experts in each specialty work together to advance cutting-edge clinical care and research from the perspective of children and their families.
Titles of investigator-initiated clinical studies are listed for each clinical group, and details can be viewed as PDFs.
Key terms
- Clinical group
- A group within pediatrics organized by specialty area, such as neonatology, hemodynamics, and hematology/oncology and immunology.
- Investigator-initiated clinical study
- Clinical research whose titles are listed for each clinical group, with details viewable as PDFs.
ResearchResearch themes
With the goal of "turning incurable diseases into curable ones," the lab deals with every kind of problem that arises in children's bodies and minds, working as general pediatricians. Experts in the specialty areas of each clinical group work together to advance cutting-edge clinical care and research from the perspective of children and their families.
View More ↗MembersFaculty
The lab's members consist of faculty (Professors, Associate Professors, Lecturers, and Assistant Professors), staff physicians, graduate students, residents, and Clinical Professors and Clinical Associate Professors.As of 2026
- ProfessorYasuji Kitabatake
- Professor (United Graduate School of Child Development / Child Mental Health Care Center)Kuriko Shimono
- Professor (United Graduate School of Child Development / Child Mental Health Care Center)Ikuko Mori
- Professor (United Graduate School of Child Development / Child Mental Health Care Center)Masaya Tachibana
- Associate Professor: Clinical Chief PhysicianHidekazu Ishida
- Associate Professor (Department of Health Sciences)Kenichi Yamamoto
- Project Associate Professor (Department of Future Medicine Development)Yoshiaki Yamagishi
- Lecturer (Ward Director)Jun Narita
- Lecturer (Outpatient Clinic Director)Yasuhisa Ohata
- Lecturer (Comprehensive Perinatal and Maternal-Child Medical Center)Makoto Fujiwara
- Lecturer (United Graduate School of Child Development)Shoko Iwaya
- LecturerTakeshi Kimura
- Assistant Professor (Intra-Faculty Lecturer)Ryo Ishii
- Assistant Professor (First Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, School of Dentistry)Hirofumi Nakayama
- Assistant Professor (United Graduate School of Child Development)Ikuko Hirata
- Assistant Professor (Intra-Faculty Lecturer)Junpei Tanikawa
- Assistant ProfessorTaketo Yokoi
- Assistant Professor (Intra-Faculty Lecturer)Makiko Tachibana
- Assistant ProfessorTetsushi Yamamoto
- Assistant ProfessorKeiji Kawatani
- Assistant Professor (Intra-Faculty Lecturer)Atsuko Kato
- Project Assistant Professor (Intensive Care Unit)Shun Ishigaki
- Project Assistant ProfessorHiroki Nagano
- Project Assistant ProfessorTomoya Fukuoka
- Project Assistant ProfessorGenya Tsurunaga
- Project Assistant Professor (Japan Environment and Children's Study, Osaka Unit Center)Masashi Iwami
- Project Assistant ProfessorYusuke Tanaka
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The top and research theme images are illustrative and were not taken at the lab. They are cropped from Wikimedia Commons images. Cropped CC BY-SA images are provided under the same CC BY-SA license as the original (version shown on each line).
- Top image: “Belize City Hospital Childrens' Ward 1975 - Happy colouring” Infrogmation of New Orleans / CC BY 2.0 (cropped)
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