Dr.AkiyoTanabe Japan

Dr. Tanabe is the Chair of the Department of Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism and the Director of the Endocrine and Adrenal Tumor Center at the National Center for Global Health and Medicine in Tokyo, Japan. After graduating from Tokyo Women’s Medical University, she engaged in basic and clinical research on adrenal diseases and endocrine hypertension at the Center for Excellence in Endocrinology and Metabolism of the same university. Since 2015, she has continued her clinical practice and research at the National Center for Global Health and Medicine. She has served as a board member of the Japan Endocrine Society since 2019. As a committee member of the Society, she contributed to the development of the Clinical Practice Guideline for the Diagnosis and Treatment of Primary Aldosteronism (2021) and served as chair of the Clinical Practice Guideline for the Management of Pheochromocytoma and paraganglioma (2025). Since 2015, she has served as the principal investigator of ACPA-J, a multi-institutional collaborative database project supported by the National Center for Global Health and Medicine, aiming to improve the quality of diagnosis and treatment of intractable adrenal diseases and elucidate their pathogenesis. Since 2017, she has also served as a co-investigator in the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare policy research project on disorders of adrenal hormone secretion. She is the recipient of multiple awards.