Koichi Akiyama has completed his medical education. at the age of 27 years from Kyoto Prefectural University of medicine. He has been working as anesthesiologist for 13 years. He is a Japanese Society of Anesthesiologist Board certified anesthesiologist, and a Japanese Society of Cardiovascular Anesthesiologist Board certified anesthesiologist. He has Japanese Board of Perioperative Transesophageal Echocardiography, and NBE-PTEeXAM. He has published more than 20 papers in reputed journals. He will work at Columbia University (Department of Cardiovascular Surgery) as a visiting assistant professor of research from September 2017.
Koichi Akiyama research interests are: fluid dynamics, cardiovascular physiology, vector flow mapping, computational fluid dynamics, anesthesiology