Dr Shingo Yamamoto

Dr. Shingo Yamamoto graduated Faculty of Medicine, Kyoto University in 1987, and started his carrier as a urologist. He studied virulence factors of uropathogenic E. coli as a postgraduate school student in Kyoto University, and also studied immunology as a visiting scientist at Immunobiology Vaccine Center, University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA. He has been Professor and Chairman, Department of Urology, Hyogo College of Medicine since 2009. Recently, he has contributed to development of several domestic or international guidelines concerning urinary tract infections and surgical site infections.