Prof. Yoshiharu Morimoto is currently Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of IVF JAPAN group which includes two infertility centers of IVF Namba Clinicand IVF Osaka Clinic running 7,000 periods of IVF cycles in total. Both clinics are certified according to the ISO 9001:2008 and JISART(Japanese Institution for Standardizing Assisted Reproductive Technology) accreditation. He is active in the research area and his main research field is ultrastructural study on reproduction and concerns on oocytes maturation mechanism. He also practices the integrated medicineincluding counseling, Quiong, acupuncture, and aromatherapy.
Prof. Morimoto received his MD in 1977 and PhD with his thesis on ultrastructural study on organ cultured decidual cells in 1987. He is a guest professor at St. Marianna University School of Medicine ,Pochon CHA University and Assistant Professor at Kansai Medical University. He has a variety of academic and administrative positions; some of the representatives of these are President of Japan Society of Assisted Reproduction and President of Asia Pacific Initiative on Reproduction 2012 (ASPIRE 2012) in Japan (http://www2.convention.co.jp/aspire-jsfi2012/welcome.html).
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Prof. Yoshiharu Morimoto has published more than 140 scientific original articles in the international journal in the field of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Fertilization and Implantation, Human Reproduction, Fertility and Sterility, Reproduction and Development, etc… Prof. Morimoto has been invited as keynote speaker to more than 100 international conferences. He has been invited as a guest Professor at TanTao Medical School and School of Biotechnology, TanTao University from 2013 school year.