Prof.HirotakaShibata Japan

POSITION TITLE and INSITUTION Trustee (Research and Industry-University Collaboration), Vice-President, Oita University | Director, Institute for Research Management, Oita University | Professor, Department of Endocrinology, Metabolism, Rheumatology and Nephrology, Faculty of Medicine, Oita University EDUCATION and TRAINING I graduated from Keio University School of Medicine (M.D.) in 1988. I then graduated from Keio University Graduate School of Medicine (Prof. Takao Saruta’s Lab, M.D., Ph.D.) in 1993. I worked at Department of Cell Biology (Prof. Bert W. O’Malley’s Lab), Baylor College of Medicine (Houston, Texas, USA) as a Postdoctoral Fellow. I have been appointed as a Professor and Chairman of Department of Endocrinology, Metabolism, Rheumatology and Nephrology, Faculty of Medicine, Oita University since 2013. Now I am appointed as a Trustee and Vice-President of Oita University in 2025. EXPERTISE I have been assigned as a Vice President and Managing Director (General Affairs) of the Japan Endocrine Society. I was also assigned as Treasurer and now as a Board of the International Society of Endocrinology. My primary expertise is cardiovascular endocrinology, adrenal disorders and endocrine hypertension such as primary aldosteronism, Cushing’s syndrome and pheochromocytoma. I was a task force member of the Endocrine Society Clinical Practice Guideline of Primary Aldosteronism (2016). I was also a vice chair for Primary Aldosteronism Clinical Practice Guideline 2021 by the Japan Endocrine Society (2021). I was a task force member of The Japanese Society of Hypertension Guidelines for the Management of Hypertension (2019). I am serving an inaugural Associate Editor of JCEM Case Reports (The Endocrine Society). I am also serving an Associate Editor of Hypertension Research (Japanese Society of Hypertension). I will be a Congress Co-chair and Program Organizing Committee Co-chair for the 22nd International Congress of Endocrinology/99th Annual Congress of the Japan Endocrine Society in Kyoto, Japan (2026).