Eisei Hoshiyama received his bachelor's degree from Dokkyo Medical University in 2013. He has been working in the Department of Neurology at the same university since 2002. In 2008, he was assigned to the Emergency and Critical Care Center. He was promoted to Associate Professor in 2020 and currently serves as the head of the High Care Unit (HCU). His main areas of expertise are status epilepticus and neuro-emergency intensive care.
Katsuhiko “Katsu” Naruse, born 1973, is one of the well-known obstetricians of his generation in Japan, as well as having a
research interest in preeclampsia and placental biology. He graduated from Nara Medical University (NMU) in 1999 and finished his Ph.D. thesis in 2005 alongside his obstetrics, gynecology, and perinatal care training. His finding of Adiponectin alteration in pregnancy was one of the epoch-making topics in this era. From 2005 to 2007, he was a visiting lecturer in Newcastle, UK, after invitation by Emeritus Professor John Davison and Professor Steve Robson, performing research in trophoblast invasion and spiral artery remodeling. After his return to Nara, he continued his research in preeclampsia and other pregnancy complications from the view of placentation, inflammation, and adipokines. Concurrently, he served as the obstetrician-in-chief of NMU hospital, a tertiary emergency care center of the prefecture, until 2016. After his temporary appointment in St. Barnabas’ Hospital, Osaka, as a Hospital Director and Mid-wifely School Headmaster, in 2022, he was appointed as a head professor of Dokkyo Medical University, a tertiary perinatal center located in the north Kanto region. He works as a member of many research and professional societies in Japan that write official guidelines, including JSOG and JSSHP, or that produce international congresses, such as ISIR 2019 and ISSHP 2020/21 in Nara with Prof. Shigeru Saito.
