Professor
Keio University, Japan
Hisashi Urushihara, DrPH
Professor, Division of Drug Development and Regulatory Science, Faculty of Pharmacy, Keio University.
His research area is pharmacoepidemiology, pharmacovigilance, and regulatory science. His academic training and experiences were based on epidemiological methodology at Kyoto University School of Public Health, where he received his doctoral degree in clinical epidemiology in 2008. He has also job experience in clinical development and pharmacovigilance at Eli Lilly Japan for 13 years. He started academic career with Associate Professor at the Division of Pharmacoepidemiology, followed by Lecturer at the Committee of Medical Ethics in Kyoto University School of Public Health. He is accredited by Society for Clinical Epidemiology as a certified senior epidemiologist and by Japanese Epidemiological Association as a certified senior expert. He serves as the current President of Japan Society for Pharmacoepidemiology from 2019.