Hideki Mochizuki's Biography

Hideki Mochizuki, Professor and Chairman, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine

Dr. Mochizuki is currently Professor and Chair of the Department of Neurology at Osaka University in Osaka, Japan. Prior to his present position, he served as Professor and Chair of Neurology at Kitasato University in Kanagawa, Japan. He obtained his MD and PhD degrees from Juntendo University in Tokyo, and his neurology residency at Tokyo Metropolitan Neurological Hospital. He then completed a postdoctoral fellowship in the Developmental and Metabolic Neurology Branch of NINDS / NIH in Bethesda, Maryland under the tutelage of Roscoe Brady. He returned to Japan to serve on the faculty of Neurology at Juntendo University for eleven years, rose through the academic ranks until his appointment as Chairman first at Kitasato University and now at Osaka University.