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Associate Professor of Medical Science, Clinician Educator, Associate Professor of Medicine, Clinician Educator

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In 2006, I joined the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University as Chief Medical Resident at Memorial Hospital of Rhode Island — stepping directly into that role without completing a traditional internship or residency at Brown, an opportunity for which I remain deeply grateful. That year of chief residency was formative: immersed in teaching medical students and physicians-in-training, I was honored at its conclusion with the Dean's Excellence in Teaching Award.

Three years later, after completing fellowship training in Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at Beth Israel Medical Center in New York, I was invited to return to Brown as an attending physician. I have remained ever since, now serving as Associate Professor of Medicine and Director of the Intensive Care Unit at Kent Hospital (Care New England).

I was born and raised in Japan, studied Computer Science and Physics at the University of Tokyo, and received my MD from Kyoto University in 1998. After residency and fellowship training in General Internal Medicine and Clinical Epidemiology at Kyoto University Hospital, I came to the United States to pursue further training, beginning as an intern in Internal Medicine at Beth Israel Medical Center in New York — starting, as it were, from the beginning.

My academic interests center on Point-of-Care Ultrasound (POCUS), Critical Care Ultrasonography (CCUS), simulation-based education, patient safety, and human error in medicine. I am board-certified in Internal Medicine (Japan and US), Pulmonary Medicine, Critical Care Medicine, and Adult Echocardiography (ASCeXAM and CCEeXAM). I serve on the ABIM Critical Care Medicine Approval Committee and chair the ACCP Ultrasound and Chest Imaging Section.

Teaching has been the constant thread throughout my career. Beyond Brown, I have had the privilege of bringing POCUS and critical care ultrasound education to physicians in Japan, Kenya, and Germany — including a JICA-funded training program for clinicians at Kenyatta National Hospital in Nairobi. It remains a deep honor to work alongside medical students, residents, and fellows both locally, nationally, and internationally, contributing in some small way to the formation of the next generation of clinicians worldwide.

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