Prof.Keita Morikane Yamagata University HospitalJapan

Dr. Keita Morikane is a Chair and Professor of Division of Clinical Laboratory and Infection Control, Yamagata University Hospital, Yamagata, Japan. He is a Board Certified Surgeon, Board Certified Physician of Clinical Laboratory Medicine and Certified Infection Control Doctor. He is serving as Executive board member at Japan Society for Surgical Infection, Japanese Society for Infection Prevention and Control and Japanese Society of Laboratory Medicine. He graduated from University of Tokyo in 1989. He then pursued his surgical career as a gastrointestinal surgeon until 2003, when he moved to National Institute of Infectious Diseases. After five years of experience in public health and healthcare-associated infection, he moved to his current affiliation. His research interest includes surveillance and prevention of surgical site infection and catheter-associated bloodstream infection, environmental control to prevent transmission of multidrug-resistant organisms, and many more. He has published more than 60 peer-reviewed papers as the first author or co-author.