Tomisaku Kawasaki

Tomisaku Kawasaki (Japanese川 崎 富 作, Kawasaki Tomisaku; born February 7, 1925 in Tōkyō ) is a Japanese pediatrician. According to him, the first described by Kawasaki as a disease in Kawasaki syndrome is named.

Life

Kawasaki was born as the youngest of seven children. He developed in his youth a significant interest in plants, but eventually followed his mother's wish that wanted him to become a doctor. He began immediately after the end of World War II his medical studies at the University of Chiba. There Kawasaki finally decided to pediatrics. Because of financial difficulties his family, he asked for help, whereupon him a spot in the Red Cross Hospital in Hiroo district was mediated by Tokyo. In this hospital, he should then its fortieth years working.

After working for about ten years at the hospital he met in 1961 on the first patient with symptoms that he could assign any disease, a then four year old boy. He put the case before on an internal conference at the hospital. There is a case of scarlet fever was suspected by other doctors, one first agreed to an indefinite diagnosis. In the following six years, Kawasaki patients fell on with the same symptoms. He published the observation of the disease in 1967 in a Japanese journal. As a result, there were numerous reactions from all over Japan to the article. 1970, a committee was set up to research the disease under Kawasaki by the Government of Japan. In the japan -wide investigation Kawasaki assumption of an independent disease confirmed. For the study of this disease in 1989, he received the Asahi Prize.

Kawasaki from 1990 was director of the Kawasaki Disease Research Center, Visiting Professor at the University of Kurume and taught in America. He has received numerous awards, including first prize at the Japanese Pediatric Society.