Prof Mizuno Masafumi

Professor Mizuno Masafumi is currently the Hospital Director of the Tokyo Metropolitan Matsuzawa Hospital, founded in 1879, a mental hospital with various departments.

He graduated from Keio University School of Medicine in 1986 and was a visiting professor of neuropsychology at the University of Padua, Italy, from 1993 to 1995. He then began clinical research on community-based services based on neurocognitive approaches. Since 1995, his team has been participating in Prof Ian R H Falloon's Optimal Treatment Project, an international collaboration to evaluate the benefits of comprehensive team treatment for major mental disorders. In 2006, he became Professor and Chairman of the Department of Neuropsychiatry, Toho University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan, and founding Director of the Early Psychosis Unit 'Il Bosco', Toho University Omori Medical Center. He has been in his current position since 2021.

Professor Mizuno served as the President of IEPA Early Intervention in Mental Health (2014-2016). and the Chair of the 9th Conference of IEPA in Tokyo in 2014. He has been a member of the Board of Directors of the Japanese Society of Psychiatry and Neurology since 2013, Vice President (2021-2023), and serves also as the President of the Japanese Society of Social Psychiatry (since 2015).