Prof. Akio Niimi: the clinical identification of cough variant asthma

• Vol 6, Supplement 7 (October 2014): Journal of Thoracic Disease (Chronic Cough)

Article Abstract

Authors: Betty Zhang

Abstract

Dr. Akio Niimi is the Professor of Department of Medical Oncology and Immunology, Nagoya City University Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Nagoya, Japan.

He trained in Chest Disease Research Institute, Kyoto University in 1985-1987, 

and then he worked in Respiratory  Medicine, Wakayama Red Cross Hospital in the 

next two years. 

From 1989 through 2012 Dr. Niimi worked in Kyoto University Hospital and 

promoted to Associate Professor in 2008, and to Head of Respiratory Medicine in 

2011. 

During 2002-2003, Dr. Niimi conducted his post-doctoral research under the 

supervision of Prof. Kian Fan Chung, in National Heart & Lung Institute, Imperial 

College London, UK.

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