Shigekazu HARUKI, MD
Visiting Professor, Kidney Center,
Tokyo Women's Medical University, Japan

Dr. Shigekazu Haruki has been one of the pioneer members for the development of Psychonephrology in Japan. He has been a board member for the Academy of Psychonephrology in Japan, Japanese Society for Dialysis Therapy, and the Japan Society for Transplantation since 1990. He has been an active participant in the International Psychonephrology Congress since 1986, which has also nourished the long-term friendship with Dr. Norman Levy of American Academy of Psychonephrology. Dr. Haruki was appointed to be the organizational chair for the XII World Congress of Psychonephrology, held in Yokohama, Japan in 2000.

Dr. Haruki received his M.D. from Yokohama City University School of Medicine in 1967. He worked as an assistant psychiatrist at the Department of Neuropsychiatry of the Yokohama City University Hospital from 1968 to 1973, then took a position as a court appointed psychiatrist for the Yokohama Municipal Court (handling civil cases) from 1973 to 1980. He then moved to Shimane, where he took a position at the Department of Psychiatry of the Shimane Medical University and worked for 8 years until he opened a clinic in 1988. He has been a lecturer at the Tokyo Women’s Medical University since 1975 and was appointed to be a visiting professor there since 1999. He also teaches at Yokohama City University School of Medicine and Shimane Medical University.

He suffered from acute renal failure which progressed to ESRD and led him to be on HD in 1972. Since then, he has been managing roles of a psychiatrist and a patient on HD. The area of Psychonephrology has been his main theme since then.