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Clinical Professor
Fujita Health University School of Medicine , Japan
Disclosure(s): No financial relationships to disclose
Professor Hitoshi Honda is an infectious diseases consultant and a hospital epidemiologist at Fujita Health University School of Medicine,
Aichi, Japan. He received his MD and Ph.D. from the Kitasato University School of Medicine, Japan, in 2000. He completed the internal medicine residency at the University of Hawaii in 2007 and then completed an infectious diseases fellowship and healthcare epidemiology fellowship under the tutelage of Drs. David Warren and Victoria Fraser at Washington University in St. Louis, MO.
After completing his fellowship in 2010, Dr. Honda moved back to his native country of Japan to help initiate an infectious disease consultation service while also working to advance infection control and hospital epidemiology. His clinical research has focused on the epidemiology and prevention of healthcare-associated infections and antimicrobial stewardship, with a special focus on antimicrobial stewardship interventions in acute care hospitals. One of Dr. Honda’s goals is to develop collaborative relationships in the area of healthcare
epidemiology between Japan, the United States, and other Asian countries. He was selected to be the SHEA International Ambassador in 2012 and received the SHEA International Award at ID Week 2013. He has served as a member of the SHEA External Affairs Committee since 2022. He is an editorial board member for a newly launched SHEA journal, Antimicrobial Stewardship and Healthcare Epidemiology. He also serves
as an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Medicine at the Division of Infectious Diseases, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis.