Journal of Sports Medicine & Doping Studies

Takafumi Hamaoka

Biography

 Takafumi Hamaoka, Japanese preventive medicine educator. Recipient Young Investigators award 1st Congress of European College of Sports Science, Niece, France, 1996, Research award Tokyo Metropolitan Government, 1991, Grant-in-Aid award The Ministry of Education Science and Sports and Culture, 1997. Hamaoka, Takafumi was born on December 24, 1962 in Mikame-cho, Ehime, Japan. Son of Yoshitsugu and Mutsuko (Hamada) Hamaoka. Doctor of Medicine, Ehime University, Matsuyama, Japan, 1989; Doctor of Philosophy, Tokyo Medical University, 1993.Research associate department biochemistry and biophysics University Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 1990-1991. Chief instruction department Tokyo Metropolitan Health Promotion Center, 1993-1994. Researcher Collaborating Center Health Promotion Sports Medicine World Health Organization, Tokyo, since 1993.

Assistant professor preventive medicine public health Tokyo Medical University, since 1994. Lecturer Japan Sports Club Association, Tokyo, since 1994, Tokyo Gakugei University, 1996. Vice-chairman Japan Triathlon Medical Committee, Tokyo, since 1997.

Member editorial board environmental health perspectives National Institutes of Health, North Carolina, since 1997

Research Interest

Exercise Science, Exercise, Muscle, Near Infrared Spectroscopy, NIR, Spectroscopy, Muscle Physiology, Skeletal Muscle Physiology, Exercise Biochemistry