Naoki Sato

Kawaguchi, Japan

Director of Department of Cardiovasuclar Medicine

After completing medical school from Nippon Medical School (NMS) in Tokyo, Japan, Dr.Sato did his residency for two years at NMS and had trained cardiac catheterization and intervention for another three years. He had done basic research regarding heart failure under the direction of Prof. Stephen F. Vatner at Harvard Medical School for 4 years. He had several awards, e.g., AHA Melvin L. Marcus Young Investigator Award in Cardiovascular Integrated Physiology, the Samuel A. Levine award from AHA, Massachusetts affiliate, etc. He was professor of department of cardiovascular medicine and director of intensive care unit in NMS. He conducted many trials and registries, such as the largest acute heart failure registry (ATTEND) in Japan and works as a PI for many HF trials including global trials. His speciality is heart failure. He works as executive director of the Japanese Heart Failure Society and Japanese Society of Intensive Care Medicine. He served as president of the 28th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Heart Failure Society in Omiya, Saitama Prefecture from October 4 to 6, 2024. He will have the 53th annual meeting of the Japanese Society of Intensive Care Medicine from 5 to 7 March, 2026 in Yokohama, Japan.