Masako Okawa
Tokyo Medical University, Japan
Biography
Masako Okawa completed her Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Sleep Laboratory Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA in 1975, MD in Gunma University School of Medicine, Maebashi in 1967. She worked as Senior Staff Associate in Department of Clinical Neurophysiology, Goteborg University, Sweden from 1979. She held the position as Director, Department of Psychophysiology National Institute of Mental Health, National Center for Neurology and Psychiatry, Ichikawa from 1991 & Japan Foundation for Neuroscience and Mental Health, Tokyo in 2013. She worked as Professor of Sleep Medicine, Shiga University of Medical Science, Otsu & Somnology, Tokyo Medical University, Tokyo in 2006 and 2013 respectively. In her career she was awarded with Baelz Prize for the research on “Biological Rhythms of Elderly Patients with Dementia and Paul Janssen Prize in 1989 and 2005 respectively.