Rate My Professor Yasuo Sugiura

Yasuo Sugiura serves as President and Professor at Nagoya University of Arts and Sciences, holding positions in the Faculty of Human Care, Department of Child Care, and concurrently as Professor in the Graduate School of Child Care Research since April 2013. Born in 1947, he graduated from Nagoya University School of Medicine in March 1971, earning his Medical Doctor degree, and completed the doctoral program at Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine in November 1975, obtaining his Doctor of Medicine. His extensive career encompasses serving as Assistant in the Department of Anatomy I at Nagoya University School of Medicine from 1975 to 1982, Lecturer in Basic Medical Sciences at the University of Tsukuba from 1982 to 1988, Visiting Associate Professor in the Department of Physiology at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine from 1984 to 1986, Professor in the Department of Anatomy I at Fukushima Medical University from 1988 to 1996, and Professor in the Department of Anatomy II (Functional Histology) at Nagoya University School of Medicine from 1996 to 2010. During his tenure at Nagoya University, he also acted as Head of the Medical Sciences Research Institute and Dean of the School of Medicine from 2003 to 2005, Director and Vice President from 2005 to 2009, and Advisor to the President from 2009 to 2010. Prior to joining Nagoya University of Arts and Sciences, he was Superintendent of the Aichi Prefectural Colony for Persons with Disabilities from 2010 to 2013.