Yoshinori Mitamura, Ph.D.

Yoshinori Mitamura is Professor Emeritus of Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan with research interest in the development of a rotary blood pump implanted at the aortic valve position, numerical analysis of hemolysis in a rotary blood pump and medical applications of magnetic fluids.  Mitamura obtained BS degree in fine measurements at Nagoya Institute of Technology and Ph.D. degree in electronic engineering at Hokkaido University, Japan.  He was a post doctorial fellow at Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, USA.  He is an editorial board member of Artificial Organs.