Councilor Yoshiharu Yonekura
Present position
Guest Professor, Institute for Radiation Sciences, Osaka University
Education
- 1976-1980
- Postgraduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University (Ph.D.)
- 1967-1973
- Kyoto University School of Medicine (M.D.)
Employment
- 2019-2024
- Specially Appointed Professor, Division of Science, Institute for Radiation Sciences, Osaka University
- 2016-2019
- Senior Advisor, National Institutes for Quantum and Radiological Science and Technology
- 2006-2016
- President, National Institute of Radiological Sciences, Chiba, Japan
- 1998-2006
- Director, Biomedical Imaging Research Center, Fukui Medical University (2003 -, University of Fukui), Fukui, Japan
- 1995-2006
- Professor, Biomedical Imaging Research Center, Fukui Medical University (2003 -, University of Fukui), Fukui, Japan
- 1990-1995
- Associate Professor, Department of Brain Pathophysiology, Kyoto University School of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan
- 1987-1990
- Lecturer, Department of Nuclear Medicine, Kyoto University School of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan
- 1982-1983
- Research Fellow, Department of Radiology, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.A.
- 1980-1982
- Visiting Assistant Scientist, Medical Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory, New York, U.S.A.
- 1980-1987
- Assistant Professor, Department of Nuclear Medicine, Kyoto University School of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan
- 1975-1976
- Clinical Fellow, Department of Radiology, Kyoto University Hospital, Kyoto, Japan
- 1973-1975
- Resident, Department of Radiology, Kyoto University Hospital, Kyoto, Japan
Professional appointments
- Japanese Society of Nuclear Medicine
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- 2007-2008
President
- 1999-2009
Board member
- 2007-2008
- International Committee on Radiological Protection (ICRP)
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- 2013-2019
Chair, ICRP Working Party and Task Group 101; Radiological Protection in Therapy with Radiopharmaceuticals
- 2012-2014
Chair, ICRP Task Group 87; Radiological Protection in Ion Beam Radiotherapy
- 2005-2017
Member of ICRP Committee 3
- 2013-2019
- United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation (UNSCEAR)
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- 2015-2016
Chair
- 2014
Vice-chair
- 2013
Rapporteur
- 2013
Representative of Japan
- 2015-2016
- Science Council of Japan
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- 2011-2017
Council member
- 2005-2011
Member
- 2011-2017
Awards
- 2001
- Kuhl-Lassen Lectureship Award, Society of Nuclear Medicine (U.S.A.)
- 1985
- Japanese Society of Nuclear Medicine Award
Publications
3 Books
52 Book chapters
385 Peer reviewed articles in English