Yuichiro Yano, MD, PhD

Yuichiro Yano, MD, PhD, is a Professor of the Department of Advanced Epidemiology, Noncommunicable Disease (NCD) Epidemiology Research Center at the Shiga University of Medical Science, Yokohama City University Graduate School of Medicine, Duke University (USA), and Yonsei University College of Medicine (Korea), and Global Faculty at Stanford University. As a physician-scientist, He has been conducting prospective studies evaluating the prognostic values of the clinic, home, and 24-hour ambulatory blood pressure monitoring in Japan and the U.S. He has authored or co-authored more than 180 publications in peer-reviewed journals in the field, including Journal of American Medical Association (JAMA), New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM), and Lancet. In 2016 he received the American Society of Hypertension’s Young Scholar Award and the Sandra A. Daugherty Award from the American Heart Association. In 2017 he received the Hypertension Top Paper Award. He was recently recognized by the American Heart Association for authoring one of the most impactful publications of 2018. He received the Japanese Society of Hypertension Academic Award 2019 and the John Laragh Research Award.