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personal history

Nagasaki University School of Medicine Graduated in 1978
1978-1980 Resident in Internal Medicine at Nagasaki University Hospital
1980-1984 Postgraduate Clinical Fellow at the First Department of Internal Medicine, Nagasaki University School of Medicine
1984-1987 Endocrine Research Fellow at the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, UCLA School of Medicine
1987-1990 Assistant Professor, the First Department of Internal Medicine, Nagasaki University School of Medicine
1990-2011Professor and Chairman, Department of Molecular Medicine and Department of International Health and Radiation Research, Atomic Bomb Disease Institute, Nagasaki University School of Medicine
2004-2006 Scientist, Team Leader, Radiation and Environment Health, SDE/PHE, WHO/HQ
2009-2011 Dean, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical
3/2011- Advisory committee of radiation health risk control in Fukushima
7/2011- Vice-president, Specially appointed Professor Fukushima Medical University
4/2013- Trustee/ Vice President Nagasaki University　

works/thesis

1. Chernobyl: a decade (Yamashita S, Shibata Y, eds., Elsevier) International Congress Series No.1156, pp613, 1997
2. Shibata Y, Yamashita S, Masyakin VB, Panasyuk GD, Nagataki S: 15 years after Chernobyl: new evidence of thyroid cancer. Lancet 358(9297): 1965-1966, 2001
3. Cardis E, Yamashita S, et al: William D: Risk of thyroid cancer after exposure to 131I in childhood. J Natl Cancer Inst 97(10): 724-732, 2005
4. Demidchik YE, Demidchik EP, Reiners C, Biko J, Mine M, Saenko VA, Yamashita S: Comprehensive clinical assessment of 740 cases of surgically treated thyroid cancer in children of Belarus. Ann Surg 243(4): 525-532, 2006
5. Yamashita S, Saenko V: Mechanisms of Disease: molecular genetics of childhood thyroid cancers. Nat Clin Pract Endocrinol Metab 3(5): 422-429, 2007
6. Radiation Health Risk Sciences (Nakashima M, Takamura N, Tsukasaki K, Nagayama Y, Yamashita S, eds., Springer) pp.304, 2009
7. Takahashi M, Saenko VA, Rogounovitch TI, Kawaguchi T, Drozd VM, Takigawa-Imamura H, Akulevich NM, Ratanajaraya C, Mitsutake N, Takamura N, Danilova LI, Lushchik ML, Demidchik YE, Heath S, Yamada R, Lathrop M, Matsuda F, Yamashita S: The FOXE1 locus is a major genetic determinant for radiation-related thyroid carcinoma in Chernobyl. Hum Mol Genet 19(12): 2516-2523, 2010
8. Saenko V, Yamashita S: Chernobyl thyroid cancer 25 years after: in search of a molecular radiation signature. Hot Thyroidology (www.hotthyroidology.com), HT 8/10, 2010