Shigeki Fujitani

Shigeki Fujitani is currently a Professor of Emergency Medicine and Critical Care Medicine at St. Marianna University Hospital in Kanagawa, Japan. He has board certificates in general internal medicine and critical care medicine in the US. His training background included a residency in General Internal Medicine at the University of Hawaii, the fellowship in critical care medicine at the University of Pittsburgh, and the Infectious Diseases fellowship in UCLA combined program.

Following his return to Japan in 2007, Professor Fujitani has championed the introduction of the SCCM sponsored Fundamental Critical Care Support course, Fundamental Disaster Course, and Multi-professional Critical Care Board Review Course into Japan. Additionally, he has advocated the concept of Rapid Response System throughout Japan.

Professor Fujitani is the national primary investigator of REMAP-CAP (Randomized, Embedded, Multifactorial, Adaptive Platform trial for Community-Acquired Pneumonia) and dedicated international study for severe pneumonia with COVID-19.

Professor Fujitani was elected to the Board of the Japanese Society of Intensive Care Medicine (JSICM) in 2016 and now board member in charge of the society’s Committees in Education and Rapid Response System.

Professor Fujitani was elected to the Board of the Japanese Society of Intensive Care Medicine (JSICM) in 2016 and is now a board member in charge of the society’s Committees in Education and Rapid Response System.