Chief, Department of Musculoskeletal Oncology and Rehabilitation Medicine
National Cancer Center Hospital, Japan
Dr Akira Kawai is Chief of Musculoskeletal Oncology and Rehabilitation Medicine and Director of Rare Cancer Center at National Cancer Center Hospital in Tokyo. He also serves as the Director of Bone and Soft Tissue Tumor Registry in Japan. Dr Kawai obtained his medical degree at Okayama University Medical School in 1985. He worked at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center as a research fellow of Orthopaedic Surgery and Molecular Pathology between 1996 and 1998, and transferred to NCCH at 2002.