Akihito Uezato

Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry, UAB, University of Alabama at Birmingham.

Dr. Uezato received his BS in Quantum Science from the University of Tokyo, and his MD from the Tokyo Medical and Dental University (TMDU) in Japan in 2002. He completed a residency in psychiatry at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) in 2008, where he was involved in research projects in Dr. Jim Meador-Woodruff’s laboratory. Upon completion of his residency, he returned to Japan to join Dr. Toru Nishikawa’s laboratory and work as an attending psychiatrist at TMDU. He received a Ph.D. from TMDU in 2009. His current position is Assistant Professor at TMDU Department of Psychiatry and Adjunct Assistant Professor at UAB Department of Psychiatry. His past and current research activities include the studies of the expression of genes associated with glutamatergic neurotransmission in schizophrenia and mood disorders in collaboration with Dr. Meador-Woodruff’s laboratory. He is also involved in the genetic association studies at TMDU for genes associated with glutamatergic neurotransmission in schizophrenia.

email: auezato@uab.edu