Junichiro Ito

Juichiro Ito
Born	1954 Tokyo, Japan
Nationality	Japan
Alma mater	Chiba University
Scientific career
Fields	Medicine
Institutions	National Institute of Mental Health, Japan

Junichiro Ito (伊藤 順一郎, born 1954) is a Japanese psychiatrist, and a medical researcher. He currently is the director of the Department of Psychiatric Rehabilitation, National Institute of Mental Health, which is a part of the National Center of Neurology and Psychiatry of Japan. Ito's research interests include Assertive Community Treatment, and help programs for socially withdrawn individuals, called hikikomori.

Biography

Ito was born in Tokyo in 1954. He graduated from the faculty of Medicine at the Chiba University with the degree of Bachelor of Medicine in 1980.

He was, then, appointed to the Assistant (equivalent to Assistant Professorship in North America) of the Department of Psychiatry at the Chiba University Hospital in 1984. He further became the Assistant of the Department of Psychiatry at the School of Medicine, Chiba University in 1992.

In 1994, he left the Chiba University for a research position at a national research institute; namely a division chief of a research division in the Department of Psychiatric Rehabilitation, National Institute of Mental Health.

In 1998, he completed a doctoral dissertation titled, "Distribution of EE and Its Relationship to Relapse in Japan," and earned a doctorate in Psychiatry and Neurology from Chiba University. He was promoted to the director of the Department in 2000.

References

"ITO Junichiro." Directory Database of Research and Development Activities. Tokyo. Retrieved on 1 Mar. 2009. Available at http://read.jst.go.jp/index_e.html.