Dr Motohiro EBISAWA

Motohiro Ebisawa is the Director of Clinical Research Center for Allergy and Rheumatology, Sagamihara National Hospital and the Professor of the Jikei University School of Medicine. He graduated from the Jikei University School of Medicine in Tokyo in 1985 and took short visiting resident course in the department of Pediatrics at St. Thomas Hospital in London, UK. He completed his postgraduate course at the Jikei University School of Medicine, where he earned his PhD. He did postdoctoral fellowship on the analysis of “eosinophil selective recruitment” in Dr. Robert P. Schleimer’s laboratory at Johns Hopkins University from 1991-1993. He also had a chance to visit Dr. Hugh Sampson’s food allergy unit regularly during his fellowship. After coming back to Japan, he started food allergy practice and research at Sagamihara National Hospital since 1995. He has published more than 300 papers on international journals.

He is a leading expert in food allergies and anaphylaxis in Japan and currently serves as the President of Japanese Society of Allergology (JSA) and Asian Pacific Academy of Pediatric Allergy, Respirology and Immunology (APAPARI). He is the Counselor of WAO. He also serves as an associate editor of PAI and COACI.