Nippon Medical SchoolJapan
Biography
Rei Ogawa has the M.D. and Ph.D. degrees. He is currently a faculty member at the Nippon Medical School in Tokyo, Japan, with a position of Professor and Chief at the Department of Plastic, Reconstructive, and Aesthetic Surgery. Also, he is a visiting lecturer at Tokyo University from 2013.
He is a fellow of American College of Surgeons (ACS) and a member of American Association of Plastic Surgeons (AAPS). In addition, he is now directing the Mechanobiology and Mechanotherapy Laboratory at his medical school. He joined the Tissue Engineering and Wound Healing Laboratory, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA, where he worked between 2007 and 2009 as a Research Fellow. He has focused his recent studies on the mechanobiology and its application to tissue engineering, wound healing and anti-aging medicine. His clinical specialty is reconstructive surgery and scar management, for example, abnormal scar (keloid and hypertrophic scars) prevention and treatment. In relation to this, he studied mechanobiology of wound healing and scarring, and he is a world leader in this area.
He was the recipient of several awards, for example, the Award of Japanese Society of Plastic Surgery, and many research grants (e.g., grant-in-aid for scientific research in Japan). Moreover, he holds several national patents in the field of tissue engineering and mechanobiology. He is an Editorial Board Member of many international and local scientific journals (e.g., Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery) and is a Board Member of international and local medical societies (e.g., Japanese Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery (JSPRS)).
He has coauthored over 50 chapters in international and national books, coauthored over 400 papers in scientific journals, and has presented over 1500 coauthored papers at international and national conferences including over 250 invited lectures.
Fields of Interest
- Wound Healing
- Scar
- Keloid
- Anti-Aging
- Hypertrophic Scars