Kenichi Oishi, M.D., Ph.D.

ADDRESS
Johns Hopkins University, Department of Radiology
Address: 225 Traylor Building, 720 Rutland Ave.Baltimore, MD 21205
Tel: 410-502-3553 e-mail: koishi@mri.jhu.edu

RESEARCH INTERESTS
Early diagnosis and treatment of Neurodegenerative Diseases.
Non-invasive analysis of the human brain.

EDUCATION
2005 Ph.D. in Medical Science
2002 – 2004 Human Brain Research Center, Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan
2001 – 2005 Division of Endocrinology/Metabolism, Neurology and Hematology/Oncology, Department of Clinical Molecular Medicine, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, Kobe, Japan
1997 M.D., Japanese National Board for Medicine Examination and Licensure
1991 - 1997 Kobe University School of Medicine, Kobe, Japan

RESEARCH BACKGROUND
2006 - Postdoctoral researcher, Department of Radiology, Johns Hopkins University
2004 Research Assistant, Division of Endocrinology/Metabolism, Neurology and Hematology/Oncology, Department of Clinical Molecular Medicine, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, Kobe, Japan
2003 Teaching Assistant, Division of Endocrinology/Metabolism, Neurology and Hematology/Oncology, Department of Clinical Molecular Medicine, Kobe

CLINICAL BACKGROUD
2005 - 2006 Chief of Ward, Risk Manager, Assistant Professor, Department of Neurology, Kobe University Hospital, Kobe, Japan
1999 - 2001 Resident, Department of Neurology, National Center of Neurology and Psychiatry, Tokyo, Japan
1997 - 1999 Resident, Department of Internal Medicine, Kobe City General Hospital, Kobe, Japan

TEACHING
2003 National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology Biomedical Imaging Group 33rd Medical Vision Seminar, Osaka, (July 31, 2003).

MEMBERSHIPS
2001 - Japanese Society of Stroke
2001 - Japanese Society of Neuropsychiatry
2001 - Japanese Society of Clinical Neurophysiology
1999 - Japanese Society of Neurology
1997 - Japanese Society of Internal Medicine

PUBLICATIONS (Peer Reviewed Articles)
1. Kanda F, Sekiguchi K, Oishi K, Hamaguchi H, Mitsui S, Kobessho H, et al. Intermittent intravenous immunoglobulin infusion prevented relapses in patients with remission-exacerbation type chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy. Rinsho Shinkeigaku 2006; 46: 236-8.

2. Kobessho H, Fukunaga A, Mitsui S, Sekiguchi K, Oishi K, Ishihara H, et al. Adult onset Langerhans cell histiocytosis with progressive cerebellar ataxia and spastic paraparesis. Rinsho Shinkeigaku 2006; 46: 725-8.

3. Nakai T, Matsuo K, Ohgami Y, Oishi K, Kato C. An fMRI Study of Temporal Sequencing of Motor Regulation Guided by an Auditory Cue - A Comparison with Visual Guidance. Cognitive Processing, 2005;6(2) :128-35.

4. Oishi K, Toma K, Bagarinao ET Matsuo K, Nakai T, Chihara K, Fukuyama H. Activation of the precuneus is related to reduced reaction time in serial reaction time tasks. Neuroscience Research, 2005; May;52(1):37-45.

5. Sekiguchi K, Kanda F, Oishi K, Hamaguchi H, Nakazawa K, Maeda N, Ishihara H, Chihara K. HLA typing in focal myositis. J Neurol Sci. 2004 Dec 15;227(1):21-5.

6. Oishi K, Ogawa M, Oya Y, Kawai M. Whole-brain voxel-based correlation analysis between regional cerebral blood flow and intelligence quotient score in Parkinson's disease. European Neurology, 2004;52(3):151-5.

7. Naggar EA, Kanda F, Okuda S, Maeda N, Nakazawa K, Oishi K, Sekiguchi K, Ishihara H, Chihara K. Focal myositis in monozygotic twins. Intern Med. 2004 Jul;43(7):599-601.

8. Oishi K, Toma K, Matsuo K, Nakai T, Chihara K, Fukuyama H. Cortical motor areas in plantar response: An event-related functional MRI study in normal subjects. Neuroscience Letters, 2003;345(1):17-20.

9. Sekiguchi K, Oishi K, Hamaguchi H, Maeda N, Nishimoto K, Ishihara H, Kanda F, Chihara K. Acute hemorrhagic encephalitis by varicella-zoster virus in a patient with SLE. Nippon Naika Gakkai Zasshi. 2003 Jul 10;92(7):1328-30.

10. Oishi K, Yoshioka M, Ozawa R, Yamamoto T, Oya Y, Ogawa M, Kawai M.Dichloroacetate treatment for adult patients with mitochondrial disease. Rinsho Shinkeigaku. 2003 Apr;43(4):154-61.

11. Yamamoto T, Oishi K, Oya Y, Ogawa M, Kawai M.Compulsive repetition of movements in a case of progressive supranuclear palsy. Rinsho Shinkeigaku. 2002 Oct;42(10):925-9.

12. Oishi K, Oya Y, Yamamoto T, Shigeto H, Ogawa M, Kawai M.Quantitative evaluation of the effect of 3,4-diaminopyridine in a patient with Lambert-Eaton myasthenic syndrome using dynamic dynamometry. Rinsho Shinkeigaku. 2001 Aug;41(8):515-8.

13. Oishi K, Shigeto H, Maruyama K, Oya Y, Ogawa M, Nonaka I, Kawai M.Overloading to neck extensor muscles is an aggravating factor to induce further neck drop in isolated neck extensor myopathy (Katz). Rinsho Shinkeigaku. 2000 Sep;40(9):933-6.

14. Oishi K, Sugiura R, Shuntoh H, Kuno T. Cloning and characterization of hsc1+, a heat shock cognate gene of the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe. Gene. 1996 Nov 28;181(1-2):45-9.