Biography
Dr. Tomura graduated Akita University School of Medicine in 1981. He worked and studied neuroradiology and PET of cerebrovascular disorders as a neuroradiologist at Research Institute for Brain and Blood Vessels-Akita from 1986 to 1988. He completed his doctorate in radiology and nuclear medicine at Akita University in 1988. He got Japanese board of radiology in 1986 and Japanese board of nuclear medicine in 1991. He studied neuroradiology as a research fellow at Mount Sinai School of Medicine (New York) from 1991 to 1992. He was an associated professor of Radiology at Akita University in 1993. He got a grant from the Ministry of Welfare in 1987 and 1988, and a grant from the Ministry of Education in 1994, 1995-1997, 2005-2007. He got Japanese board of stroke society in 2002 and Japanese board of PET in 2003. He was recently a director of Department of Neuroradiology at Southern TOHOKU Research Institute for Neuroscience.