Moderator Profile

Executive Summary：
Yoshikazu Ugawa, MD, Emeritus Professor and Professor of Department of System Neuroscience, Fukushima Medical University, Fukushima, Japan, and works at Department of Neurology, the NHO Fukushima National Hospital. He survived the disaster of the earthquake 2011, Japan and still lives in Fukushima. He studied clinical neurophysiology of movement disorders under Professor Marsden and Professor Rothwell in Queen Square, London in 1987-1990. He received PhD from the University of Tokyo in 1992. He was a Director and Professor of Department of Neurology, Fukushima Medical University from 2007 to 2018. He was the secretary general of the International Federation of Clinical Neurophysiology (IFCN) from 2014 to 2017, he has been a chair of brain stimulation SIG of IFCN in 2017 to 2023 and an associate editor of Clinical Neurophysiology in 2006 to 2022, and the president of AO chapter of IFCN from 2021 to 2025. He is also the vice-president of Asian Oceanican Region of World Federation of Neurology (WFN) from 2023.

His main interest is non-invasive brain stimulation, such as TMS and newly developed transcranial ultrasound stimulation (TUS). His clinical interest is movement disorders.