Shigeki Fujitani, M.D.

Assistant Professor and Associated Director

Emergency/Critical Care Medicine Department

St. Marianna Medical School

2-16-1 Sugao Miyamae-ku

Kawasaki-City, Kanagawa Prefecture

Japan 216-8511

Tel: +81-44-977-8111

Fax: +81-44-979-1522

E-mail: shigekifujitani@marianna-u.ac.jp

          Dr. Fujitani graduated from Jichi Medical School, Japan, in 1990 and worked as a surgeon in Shimane Central Prefectural Hospital in Shimane, Japan, from 1990-1999.  He earned Japanese Board of Surgery in 1994 and Gastrointestinal Surgery in 1997.  He did an internal medicine residency at the University of Hawaii from 2000-2003 and a critical care medicine fellowship at the University of Pittsburgh from 2003-2005.  To pursue infectious diseases, especially in the critical care medicine area, Dr. Fujitani completed an infectious disease fellowship at UCLA-VA, Los Angeles, California from 2005-2007.  He is currently working as a program director of critical care medicine in St. Marianna University, Kanagawa, Japan.  His interest is infection control and antibiotic stewardship in ICUs.