Prof. Kazuo Shimizu is the Chairman of the Thyroid Examination Assessment Subcommittee, also being a member of the Oversight Committee for the Fukushima Health Management Survey. He is a thyroid surgeon and honorary director at Kanaji Hospital, and professor emeritus at Nippon Medical School, Japan. He is currently one of the members of Committee of Pharmacological Therapy for Thyroid Cancer of Japan Association of Endocrine Surgery (JAES) and Japanese Society of Thyroid Surgery (JSTS), Japan.
