Akira Akabayashi Dr. Akabayashi, MD, PhD, is Professor in the Department of Biomedical Ethics at the University of Tokyo Graduate School of Medicine and Director of UT-CBEL (University of Tokyo Center of Biomedical Ethics and Law). His research interests include cross-cultural bioethics, informed consent, end-of-life issues, research ethics, bioethics policy, and clinical ethics. Professor Akabayashi serves as Chair of the Ethics Committee at the University of Tokyo Faculty of Medicine. He is also a member of several government bioethics policy committees in Japan. He is an associate editor for BMC Medical Ethics, a consulting editor for Asian Bioethics Review, on the editorial boards of the Journal of Medical Ethics and Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics, and editor-in-chief of the Journal of the Japan Association for Bioethics. He is also a Fellow of The Hastings Center.

Education & Employment:

• 1983 M.D. in Medicine, The University of Tokyo
• 1990 Ph.D. in Medicine, The University of Tokyo
• 1993 Visiting scholar at The Hastings Center
• 1999 Lecturer, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo
• 2000 Professor, Department of Biomedical Ethics, School of Public Health, Kyoto University
• 2003 Professor, Department of Biomedical Ethics, School of Public Health, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo

Corresponding address:

Dr. Akira Akabayashi
Department of Biomedical Ethics
University of Tokyo Graduate School of Medicine
7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku
Tokyo 113-0033
Japan
FAX +81-35841-3319
E-mail: cbel-adm@umin.ac.jp

His publication list is here.