WTD STEERING COMMITTEE

Yukio Ozaki, MD, PhD

Professor and Chairman
Department of Laboratory Medicine

Faculty of Medicine
University of Yamanashi
Yamanashi, Japan

Professor Yukio Ozaki is on the Faculty of Medicine for the Department of Laboratory Medicine at the University of Yamanashi, Japan. He obtained his doctorate of medicine from the University of Tokyo in 1977, and his doctorate in 1985, followed by 12 years of research and clinical practice. In 1997, he was appointed Professor of Laboratory Medicine and Director of the Laboratory Unit at the University of Yamanashi. He is a council member of the ISTH, current President of the Japanese Society of Thrombosis and Hemostasis, and Treasurer of the Asian-Pacific Society of Thrombosis and Hemostasis. During his career, he has contributed to more than 190 papers in international journals and textbooks, and served as Editor-in-Chief of the Japanese Journal of Thrombosis and Hemostasis for 8 years until 2011. He is now Senior Associate Editor of Thrombosis Research, Associate Editor of Journal of Thrombosis and Haemostasis and is a co-Editor-in-Chief of Thrombosis Journal. His research focuses on the pathophysiology of atherothrombosis related to platelet activation, signal transduction pathways of platelets, and laboratory medicine related to thrombosis, especially of platelet functions.