History of the Department of Metabolism, Endocrinology, and Molecular Medicine & Nephrology
(Former name: Second Department of Internal Medicine)

In 1950, Professor Kiyoshi Ishii first established our department as the Second Department of Internal Medicine, with the main research fields of metabolism, diabetology, endocrinology and nephrology. He was succeeded by Professor Masahisa Wada in 1964, Hirotoshi Morii in 1984, and Yoshiki Nishizawa in 1999. Professor Masaaki Inaba, who took up post as the fifth professor of our department in 2010, has broadened our research fields and improved the quality of our research, clinical care, and education more than ever. Now, our major fields include metabolic bone disease, sleep disorders, dialysis, and rheumatology in addition to diabetology, metabolism, endocrinology, and nephrology. Our department has graduated more than 400 physicians who work in various medical settings such as health administration, medical clinics, public/private hospitals, and academia. To date, our department has also produced professors of hematology, endocrinology, molecular pathology, and preventive medicine at our university and other universities.

Three Missions
We keep these three missions in mind in our daily work in education, research, and medical care.

3) We play an important and constructive role in providing fundamental treatment for highly advanced medical care at the university hospital by performing safe, holistic and sophisticated medical care as a specialized scientific physician.

Research Fields

4. Vascular Medicine group:
Vascular calcification

Clinical Fields

3. Nephrology group:
Glomerular nephritis, nephrotic syndrome, autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease, acute kidney injury, chronic kidney disease, hemodialysis