Takahiro Fujimoto, M.D., Ph.D., MBA
Director, Clinic F
Chiyoda-ward, Tokyo, Japan



Profile
Dr. Fujimotofs interest in technology, electronics and microscopic began as a young child, and since then his dream was to follow the career in science research.

Being a multi talented character, he hesitated over which major to choose in university when he faced the time to decide his future. Then he once went to Keio University Faculty of Economics, but eventually chose to become a medical doctor, and re-admitted to Medical School to pursue a doctoral degree. Dr. Fujimotofs grandfather, who also was a Medical Doctor, was known as a pioneer pain clinician in Japan. Dr. Fujimoto respected his grandfathers will by following the same path.

He started his career at Tokyo University School Hospital pain clinic, and there he learned the method of treating pain using LLLT, an acronym that stands for Low reactive Level Laser Treatment. This is when his profession as a physician became a part of mechanical engineering, the field which young boy was fascinated and dreamt to get into.
80% of medical treatments involving Laser devise being studied and developed in plastic surgery and dermatology area, Dr.Fujimoto altered his specialism to laser dermatology, where he can utilize his skill and knowledge in both high-technology engineering and biomedical field. Relevant to this event, he earned his PhD at Tokyo University for the studies of mast cells.

Since then, Dr. Fujimoto has been actively presenting his lectures at ASLMS (American society for Laser Medicine and Surgery) annual meeting every year, and has granted Fellow membership by the ASLMS in year 2006. Active internationally, as of today, Dr. Fujimoto has received over 15 invitations as a guest speaker at overseas conference.

Whilst engaging himself in the medical practice, Dr. Fujimoto has founded and run 3 Laser Clinic so far. From these experiences, he became aware that under Japanese medical administration where capital source is restricted, purchase of expensive equipment is a huge weigh on clinic management. Yet, in order to offer worldfs most advanced technique in real-time to the client, it is essential to know the latest dives in the market, and for this , Dr. Fujimoto felt the need for reinforce of business base and know-how of management was integral. He took a course in the University of Wales Business School, and submitted MBA dissertation entitled, gA Proposal to Convert Japanese Incorporated Medical Institutions into Medical Organizations Managed by Modern Profit-Making Companiesh.

After he earned MBA, he got involved in a project to launch a clinic in a first-class hotel as a MBA with medical license. Then, in May 2007, as his 5th project, he founded gCLINIC Fh. F stands for his family name, gFujimotoh, gFirst-classh, gFor clienth, and for gFascinatedh which he is, by Laser.



Latest activities here and abroad
08/2008 Laser and Antiaging Workshop in Vietnam
08/2008 Controversies and Conversations in Whistler
07/2008 IMCAS ASIA in Singapore
06/2008 KSCD 9th Annual meeting in Seoul
04/2008 ASLMS 28th Annual Meeting in Florida
02/2008 Laser and Antiaging Workshop in Cairo
11/2007 Conventional vs. Contemporary in Laser Medicine and Surgeruy in Seoul
11/2007 Cynosure Laser Workshop in Vietnam
10/2007 The 21st World Congress of Dermatology in Buenos Aires
09/2007 The 21st World Congress of Dermatology in Buenos Aires
09/2007 ESLD (European Society for Laser Dermatology)in Buenos Aires
08/2007 Controversies and Conversations in New York
07/2007 The 1st IMCAS Asia (International Master Course on Aging Skin) in Bangkok
07/2007 Cynosure Asia Pacific Distributor meeting in Bangkok
06/2007 Syneron Leadership Academy in San Francisco
05/2007 EADV 16th Congress in Austria
04/2007 Laser Seminar in Hong Kong
04/2007 Anti-Aging Seminar in Indonesia
04/2007 ASLMS 27th Annual Meeting in Dallas
03/2007 Micro Needle Therapy System Seminar in Korea
01/2007 1st ECAA in Bangkok
10/2006 EADV 15th Congress in Greece
09/2006 1st Asia Fraxel Users Meeting in Seoul
08/2006 Controversies & Conversations in San Diego
04/2006 ASLMS 26th Annual Meeting in Boston
03/2006 AAD 64th Annual Meeting in San Francisco
02/2006 EADV 4th Spring Congress in Finland
12/2005 A4M 8th Annual International Congress in Las Vegas
11/2005 Q-switched YAG Laser Peeling Congress in Bangkok
10/2005 EADV 14th Congress in London
08/2005 6th Total Anti-Aging Seminar in Tokyo
08/2005 Aesthetic Surgery Congress in Singapore
06/2005 Q switched Nd:Yag Laser congress in Krakow
05/2005 Chinese Congress of Dermatologist in Taicung
05/2005 Japan Aesthetic Surgery Forum in Tokyo
03/2005 ASLMS 25th Annual Meeting in Florida
10/2004 5th Total Anti-Aging Seminar in Tokyo
09/2004 1064nm Nd:Yag Laser Congress in Taipei
09/2004 The Latest Medical Seminar in Tokyo
06/2004 Japanese Society of Laser Medicine and Surgery in Tokyo
04/2004 ASLMS 24th Annual Meeting in Dallas
03/2004 Korean Congress of Dermatologist in Seoul
09/2003 4th Total Anti-Aging Seminar in Tokyo