Katsuji Inoue, MD, PhD, FJCS, Professor, Specialist in Internal Medicine and Cardiology, Department of Community Emergency Medicine, Ehime University Graduate School of Medicine, Ehime University Graduate School of Medicine, Toon, Japan

Dr. Inoue graduated from Ehime University in 1996, and completed his doctoral program in 2004. He is a fellow of Japanese Circulation Society (JCS), and a board-certified specialist in internal medicine, cardiology and cardiac imaging. His research currently focuses on left atrial mechanics in heart failure with echocardiography. Inoue has introduced a concept of left atrial work from pressure-strain relationship (Inoue K, Nakatani S, et al: Compensatory increase of left atrial external work to left ventricular dysfunction caused by afterload increase. Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 2015).

Dr. Inoue visited our research group for one year in 2018-2019 and has since been a valuable collaborator on several studies with our group.