Norio Omagari

Dr. Norio Omagari graduated from Saga Medical School’s Faculty of Medicine, Saga University in 1997.

In the same year, he joined St. Luke's International Hospital as a resident, and then became a general internal medicine staff member. Thereafter, he joined Aida Memorial Hospital in 2001 and the Division of Infectious Diseases at the University of Texas-Houston Medical School in 2002. From 2004 to 2010, he assumed the posts of Senior Staff and Chief in the Division of Infectious Diseases at Shizuoka Cancer Center.

He joined the National Center for Global Health and Medicine and has been the center’s Director since 2012.

In 2015, he earned an M.D. in clinical infectious diseases from the Graduate School of Medicine, Aichi Medical University.