Yuji Ikari, M.D., Ph.D., FSCAI
Yuji Ikari, M.D., Ph.D., FSCAI
Tokai University
Isehara
Japan
Biographical Sketch: Dr Yuji IKARI is a professor of cardiology in Tokai University, Japan. He is a president of Japanese Association of Cardiovascular Intervention and Therapeutics (CVIT) and an executive board member of Japanese Circulation Society since 2018. He was an editor-in-chief of CVIT journal from 2010 to 2018. He started transradial intervention (TRI) in 1994. He designed the patent-approved IKARI guiding catheter for TRI in 1995. His study about “physics of guiding catheter in TRI and TFI” is well-known because of its originality. He studied vascular pathology in University of Washington, Seattle, USA from 1996 to 1999. He is a core member of Slender Club Japan.
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