Shuji Ogino
epidemiologist
Shuji Ogino (荻野周史, Ogino Shuji; born 24 April 1968) is a molecular pathological epidemiologist, pathologist, and epidemiologist. He is Professor of Pathology at Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women's Hospital, and Professor in the Department of Epidemiology at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
He is also Chief of Program in MPE (Molecular Pathological Epidemiology) at Brigham and Women's Hospital, and an associate member of Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard.
He has been known for his work on establishing a new discipline, molecular pathological epidemiology (MPE) – an interdisciplinary science of molecular pathology and epidemiology.
Education, training, and positions
Shuji Ogino graduated from the University of Tokyo School of Medicine, and from the University of Tokyo Graduate School of Medicine. From 1994 to 1995 he underwent internship in Japan at U.S. Naval Hospital Okinawa.
After coming to the United States, from 1995 to 1997 Ogino underwent residency training in anatomic pathology and clinical pathology at Allegheny General Hospital (Drexel University), and from 1997 to 1999 at Case Western Reserve University/University Hospitals Case Medical Center.
From 1997 to 1999 he underwent fellowship training in molecular pathology at the University of Pennsylvania Medical Center. After a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania, in 2001 he joined Dana–Farber Cancer Institute, Brigham and Women's Hospital, and Harvard Medical School as Instructor in Pathology. He was promoted to Assistant Professor in 2004, to Associate Professor in 2008, and to Professor of the institutes in 2015.
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