SUZUKI, Mari

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  • Position:
    Professor (Health Services Center)
  • Degree:
    Ph.D. (Medicine), Tokyo Women�fs Medical University
  Specialty:
  Internal Medicine, Endocrinology
• Current Research Interests:
  1) Neuroendocrinology
  2) Eating disorders
  3) Osteoporosis
• Research and professional experience:

  1979	M.D, Faculty of Medicine, Nagasaki University Instructor at Department of Pathology of Saga Medical College
  1981	Resident, Department of Medicine, Tokyo Women's Medical College on clinical practice of endocrinology
  1983	Instructor, Department of Medicine, Tokyo Women's Medical College
  1985	Ph.D.(Medicine), Tokyo Women's Medical University Research associate at Department of Neuroendocrinology of the Salk Institute in USA
  1987	Instructor, Department of Medicine of Institute of Clinical Endocrinology, Tokyo Women's Medical University
  1999	Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, Institute of Clinical Endocrinology, Tokyo Women's Medical University
  2002	Professor, Health Services Center, National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS)

• Selected publications:
  Mari Hotta, Rina Ohwada, Hideki Katakami, Tamotsu Shibasaki, Naomi Hizuka, Kazue Takano. Plasma levels of intact and degraded ghrelin and their responses to glucose infusion in anorexia nervosa. J Clin Endocrinol Metab 89(11):5707-12 (2004)
  
  Mari Hotta, Rina Ohwada, Takashi Akamizu, Tamotsu Shibasaki, Kazue Takano, Kenji Kangawa Ghrelin increases hunger and food intake in patients with restricting-type anorexia nervosa.
  A pilot study. Endocrine J 56�F1119�|1128 (2009)
• Social contributions:
  �EMember of The Survey Committee for Eating Disorders of the Japanese Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare The Japanese Society of Internal Medicine
  �EEditor of Endocrine Journal of The Japanese Endocrine Society
  �ERepresentative of The Japanese Endocrine Society
  �ECouncilor of Japan Neuroendocrine Society
  �ECouncilor of The Japanese Society of Psychosomatic Internal Medicine
  �ECouncilor of Japan Society of Eating Disorders
• Other notable activities, achievements:
  The promoter of EAT family association for anorexia nervosa. http://www3.grips.ac.jp/~eatfamily/
• e-mail: marihs