Masao Omata MD

Masao Omata is a Professor at the University of Tokyo. He has made an effort to revitalize the APASL (Asian Pacific association for the study of the Liver) with Dr. S. Sarin and others for the last 10 years. He is a Co-Editor in Chief of Hepatology International, an official journal of APASL. He graduated from Chiba University School of Medicine (Dr. Okuda) and continued his training at Yale University (Dr. G Klaskin) and in the Liver Unit at the University of Southern California (Dr. RL Peters). After 6 years in the US, he returned to the Department of Medicine at Chiba University in 1989 and started a molecular biological study on the Hepatitis B virus. 

In 1992, he became Chairman of the Second Department of International Medicine at the University of Tokyo, Japan, and then subsequently became chairman of the Department of Gastroenterology. Under his leadership, the Department of Gastroenterology had become one of the foremost centers in its field. 

Now, he is the president of the two hospitals at Yamanashi, west of Tokyo, where, although scenic place with Mt. Fuji, hepatitis virus infection is epidemic and his homeland. He and his colleague have published 1,164 articles in English Literature including, NEJM 5, Lancet 6, Ann Int Med 6, Hepatology 59, and Gastroenterology 43. The total impact factor is 6,723 and 42,844 citations with an H-index of 104 as of July 1st, 2017.