Professor Nishiyama's Profile

Career History

1993 Graduated from Kagawa Medical University, School of Medicine; Clinical Resident, Department of Anesthesiology, Okayama University Hospital.
1994 Clinical Resident, Department of Anesthesiology, National Iwakuni Hospital.
1998 Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Physiology, Tulane University School of Medicine, Tulane, USA; Research Fellow, American Heart Foundation.
1999 Graduated from Kagawa Medical University, Graduate School of Medicine.
2000 Assistant Professor, Department of Pharmacology, School of Medicine, Kagawa Medical University; Visiting Lecturer, Department of Physiology, Tulane University Health Science Center, USA.
2001 - 2010 Adjunct Faculty, Department of Physiology (renal and hypertension), Tulane University Health Science Center, USA.
2007- present Professor, Department of Pharmacology, Faculty of Medicine, Kagawa University.
2009-present Deputy director (concurrent post), Center for Advanced Medical Care and Development, Kagawa University Hospital.
2010-present Deputy director (concurrent post), Diabetes Center, Kagawa University Hospital.
2011-2013 Director, Animal Experimentation Division, Center for Life Sciences, Kagawa University.
2013-present Member, Research Strategy Council, Kagawa University.
2015-2021 Special Assistant (concurrent post) to the President for research.
2018-present Professor (concurrent position), Organization for International Rare Sugar Research and Education.
2021-present Deputy director (concurrent position), Kagawa University.

Academic Society activities

Japanese Society of Clinical Pharmacology American Nephrology Society
American Physiological Society International Nephrology Society
International Society for Hypertension (Asia) Japanese Society for Clinical Molecules (Councilor)
Japan Society for Anti-Aging (Councilor) Cerebral Cardiovascular Anti-Aging Study Group (Councilor)
Japanese Society of Toxicology Japanese Society of Nephrology (Secretary-General)
Japanese Society of Cardiovascular Endocrine and Metabolism (Director) Japan anesthesiology Society
Japanese Society of Circulation Pharmacology (Secretary / Secretary General) Japanese Circulation Society, Japanese Heart Disease Society
Hypertension-related disease model society (director) Japanese Physiological Society
American Heart Foundation (Fellow) Japanese Pharmacological Society (Representative)
Japan NO Society (Director) Japanese Society for Hypertension (Director)
Japanese Society of Cardiovascular Activators (Director) Japanese Society for Regulatory Science
Japanese Association of Kidney Rehabilitation (Representative) Japan Endocrine Society (Councilor) and others

Editorial activities

Associated Editor
Sci Rep (2015~),
J Pharmacol Sci (2018~),
Nephrology (2018~),
Pharm Res Persp (2020~),
Clic Sci (2022~), etc.
Editorial Board Member
Am J Physiol Renal Physiol (2012~),
J Hypertens (2012~),
J Am Soc Nephrol (2018~),
Am J Hypertens (2019~), etc.

Committee Member

2007 and 2010 FASEB Summer Research Conference, Program Committee Member and Organizer.
2010 International Society of Nephrology Symposium, NEXUS Kyoto 2010, Local Committee Member.
2011 40th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society of Cardiovascular Society
2011 Inter-American Society of Hypertension Meetings, Program Committee
2014-2020 Gordon Research Conference, Program Committee.
2018 International Society of Nephrology Symposium, ISN Frontiers Meeting 2015, Executive Director.
2019 International Nephrology Society, Program Committee.
2019 29th Japanese Society of Circulation Pharmacology / 55th Hypertension-related Disease Model Society, President of Joint Society.
2019-2022 International Society of Hypertension, ISH2022 PR Director.
2022 141th Kansai Section, Annual Meeting of the Japanese Pharmacological Society / 6th Local meeting, the Japanese Society of Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics / 6th Kuroshio Conference Organizer.

∧