Shigeki Yamada

Lecturer, Department of Neurosurgery, Nagoya City University Graduate School of Medical Science, Aichi, Japan
Researcher, Interfaculty Initiative in Information Studies / Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

He began working as a neurosurgeon in 1997 and began his research at Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine in 2001. During four years, he learned the basics of statistics and genetics. He joined a collaborative research initiative with the Laboratory of Computational Fluid Dynamics at the University of Tokyo Institute of Industrial Science in 2002 and attended the Centre National de Génotypage (the National Center of Human Genomics Research) in France in 2004. From 2013 to 2019, he worked at Rakuwakai Otowa hospital, he learned deeply about chronic adult hydrocephalus from Prof. Masatsune Ishikawa. From 2019 to 2022, he worked as an assistant professor at the department of Neurosurgery, Shiga University of Medical Science. Since October 2022, he has been working as a lecturer in the Department of Neurosurgery at Nagoya City University, where he promotes clinical research on hydrocephalus under Prof. Mitsuhito Mase.
In 2017, he started collaborating with Fujifilm Co., Ltd. for research on 3D/4D image analysis and with Digital Standard Co., Ltd. for research on 3D gait analysis. He participated in a joint research initiative between industry and academia and across the fields of medicine and engineering with the University of Tokyo, Osaka University, and Tokyo Metropolitan University (Graduate School of Systems Design) on fluid simulation image analysis of cerebral circulation and cerebrospinal fluid. He is also part of a similar joint research initiative which aims to examine cutting-edge techniques for 3D gait motion analysis and involves Tesseikai Spine and Spinal Cord Center, Yamagata University, and the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST).