Luke M. Kitahata, M.D., Ph.D.

Luke M. Kitahata, M.D., Ph.D., professor emeritus and former chair of anesthesiology, was honored in November 2002 at the 50th anniversary celebration of the establishment of the Department of Anesthesiology at Tokyo University, his alma mater. He was the keynote speaker and received honorary membership in the Japanese Society of Anesthesiologists. The celebration was organized by one of his former Yale trainees, Kazuo Hanaoka, M.D., FW ’77, who is professor and chair of the Department of Anesthesiology at Tokyo University.