Biography

As a Physician, a Researcher, a Regulator, and a Family of Stroke Survivors Haruko Yamamoto, MD, PhD started her carrier as a stroke physician at National Cerebral and Cardiovascular Center (NCVC). After 5-year resident life, she studied in Lausanne University Hospital and Osaka University Hospital where she received her doctoral degree.

She started a new carrier as a new drug reviewer in the millennium year. She reviewed low-dose aspirin and cilostazol as the drugs for second prevention of stroke, and made a great contribute to let start a domestic clinical trial of alteplase.

After returning to NCVC, she has begun another carrier, a clinical trial professional, designing and producing clinical trials for development of new drugs and medical devices to make stroke treatment better.

She was also a family of stroke survivors. Her grandmother, grandfather and father suffered stroke. Her grandfather who taught mathematics in a junior high school got acalculia, her talkative father got aphasia. She is a person who knows the stroke survivors’ pain of sudden loss of their faculties.