Journal of Spine

Koichi Iwatsuki

Koichi Iwatsuki, M.D.,Ph.D. Associate professor Osaka University Medical School Japan

Biography

Koichi Iwatsuki graduated in medicine from the University of Tokushima and became a medical doctor in1988. He began　his　medical　career　as　a　general　neurosurgeon　and　obtained　certification　from　the　Japan　Neurosurgical Society in 1955. He then majored in spinal surgery. He is currently employed as an associate professor in the Department of Neurosurgery, Osaka University Medical School. His fields of research are spinal surgery and spinal cord injury, particularly neuronal regeneration. He studied axonal regeneration at the Egas-Moniz hospital in Lisbon, Portugal, in 2002. At that time, Dr. Carlos Lima who was a very famous neuropathologist for neuronal regeneration had already begun the clinical study of olfactory mucosa autograft transplantation for the treatment of spinal cord injury there. Dr. Iwatsuki began clinical trials of olfactory mucosa autograft transplantation for spinal cord injury from 2008 in Japan.

Research Interest

spinal surgery, spinal cord injury