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Hiroshi Eguchi, MD, PhD, is an associate professor at Kindai University, Faculty of Medicine and a visiting researcher at Kagawa University. He joined the Department of Ophthalmology at the University of Tokushima, Japan soon after graduating from the School of Medicine at the University of Tokushima in 1995. He worked as a resident at Tokushima University Hospital and the Department of Ophthalmology, Shikoku Central Hospital of the Mutual Aid Association of Public School Teachers before becoming an assistant at the University of Tokushima in 2000. In 2002, he went abroad to study at the Lions Eye Institute of the University of Western Australia, where he trained in corneal transplantations, artificial corneal, and oculoplastic surgeries. He served as a fellow at the Graduate Training in Cornea and External Eye Diseases, Royal Perth Hospital, Sir Charles Gaidner Hospital, and the University of Western Australia. After returning to Japan in 2003, he set up an outpatient clinic for corneal transplants at the University of Tokushima and has since then performed more than 800 corneal transplantations and over a 100 amniotic membrane transplantations. He has been a lecturer at the University of Tokushima since 2005, an adjunct lecturer at the Department of Molecular Bacteriology, Kagawa University, Japan since 2013, an associate professor of Ophthalmology at Kindai University Sakai Hospital since 2015, a visiting researcher at the Department of Molecular Bacteriology, Kagawa University since 2016, and an associate professor of ophthalmology at Kindai University School of Medicine since 2018. He is actively engaged in clinical practice and performs numerous anterior segment surgeries, including corneal transplantations, cataract surgery, eyelid surgery, and orbital surgery and in basic research as an ocular infectious disease specialist. One of his major research work was on quinolone resistance mechanisms of Corynebacterium in ophthalmic clinical isolates, which has been described in the Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, an internationally acclaimed textbook of bacteriology.
He has authored or coauthored 27 textbooks in Japanese and 1 in English, more than 100 peer-reviewed journal articles, and given more than 280 lectures, including international conferences. He currently serves in the council of the Japan Cornea Society and the Japanese Association for Ocular Infection.
