Division and Department

Department of General Internal Medicine and Clinical Laboratory Medicine


Shigeharu UEKI, M.D. & Ph.D.

A Greeting from the Professor

Welcome to the Department of General Internal Medicine and Clinical Laboratory Medicine at Akita University Graduate School of Medicine!
The mission of our department is to contribute to the improvement of diagnosis in medicine for better outcomes through better diagnosis. We pride ourselves on diversity of individual clinical expertise and academic interest, teamwork and transparency.
We are involved in medical care and education by having clinical expertise in internal medicine at Akita University hospital, including primary care medicine and inpatient consultation (Division of General Medicine), clinical laboratory medicine (Central Laboratory Division) and hospital infection control (Division of Infection Control and Prevention). We have strong research expertise in allergy and immunology. Specific areas of academic interest include allergic/eosinophiic diseases, hematological diseases, infectious diseases and autoimmune liver disease.

Staff

Professor:
Shigeharu UEKI, M.D. & Ph.D.

Associate Professor:
Yuki MORITOKI, M.D. & Ph.D.

Lecturers:
Akiko SAGA, M.D. & Ph.D.

Research Areas

  1. Biology of human eosinophils and their role for allergic disease Eosinophil awareness project:
    https://kousankyuueosman.wixsite.com/eosman/eosman?lang=en
  2. Pathophysiology of autoimmune liver disease
  3. Immune modulation in hematological diseases
  4. Infection control and hospital epidemiology
  5. General internal medicine and interprofessional medical education

Contact Information

Yuki Moritoki, M.D. & Ph.D.
1-1-1 Hondo, Akita, 010-8543, Japan
Phone: +81-18-884-6180
Fax: +81-18-884-6209
E-mail: ymoritoki@hos.akita-u.ac.jp

Most Recent Achievements

Shigeharu UEKI, M.D. & Ph.D.
Loop: https://loop.frontiersin.org/people/363904/overview
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3537-7735

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