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Place of Birth: Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan
About Akira Nakajima
- Akira Nakajima (?? ?, Nakajima Akira, 14 July 1923) was a Japanese ophthalmologist. At Tokyo University, Nakajima became a Doctor of Medicine in 1945 and a Doctor in Medical Science in 1953.
- From 1945 to 1949, he worked in the department of ophthalmology of University Hospital, University of Tokyo.
- From 1949 to 1954 he was the Akita Professor of the eye clinic at the Hanaoka Mine Hospital.
- At Juntendo University in Tokyo he worked in the ophthalmology department as an assistant professor from 1954 to 1960 and a full professor from 1960 to 1989, retiring there as professor emeritus in 1989. Dr.
- Nakajima has done research on many topics in ophthalmology, including Behçet's disease, clinical investigations of lamellar keratoplasty, the epidemiology of age-related cataracts in Tibet, and experimental degeneration of the retina in mice.
- He is a member of the Academia Ophthalmologica Internationalis.
- He is also a member of the International Council of Ophthalmology (president 1990–1998 and honorary life president since 1998).
- He was the president of the Asia-Pacific Academy of Ophthalmology in 1972–1976.He married in 1953 and is the father of two children.
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