Sumio Yamada (Japan)

Session

Focused symposium:  Future Trends in Cardiac Rehabilitation (Speaker)

Biography

Sumio Yamada is a physical therapist and graduated from school of physical therapy at Kochi Rehabilitation Institute in 1978 and school of education at Aoyama Gakuin University in 1986. He was a research student at department of rehabilitation medicine at Fujita Health University from 1991 to 1994 and at Showa University from 1994 to 1999. He took a doctoral degree at Showa University in 1999. He is the director of the centre for elderly fitness and secondary prevention research and is a Professor, School of Health Sciences at Nagoya University. Yamada's research interests include the role of exercise in patients with congestive heart failure as well as exercise based life style change in cardiac patients. He is now in charge of nation-wide multi-central cohort trial which has started in collaboration with cardiologists and physical therapists at 24 hospitals in Japan and focuses on the time course of functioning and the effect of exercise on it in patients with congestive heart failure (Grant-in-aid scientific research from Ministry of ECSST; US$170,000). His current research also focuses on the prevention of stroke recurrence in mild stroke (Grant-in-aid scientific research from Ministry of ECSST; US$40,000) and the life style modification via the regional alliance path in patients with acute myocardial infarction. He has twenty years of clinical experience of cardiac rehabilitation at St. Marianna University Hospital and has been a vice president of the Japanese Association of Cardiac Rehabilitation since 2006. He has authored or coauthored more than 100 scientific articles and books.

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