Masahiro Morikawa, MD, MPH, FAAFP, SFHM

Dr. Masahiro “Mori” Morikawa is a clinician, bedside educator, and global health practitioner. His exposure to a refugee crisis on the Thai-Cambodian border and a famine crisis in northern Ethiopia during the 1980s were the defining moments in his path to becoming a global health practitioner with skills to treat patients of any age and condition from head to toe. Dr. Mori served as a trauma surgeon for the Japanese Medical Team for Disaster Relief (JMTDR) for Hurricane Gilbert in Jamaica in 1988. This experience made him pursue a public health degree focusing on disaster epidemiology.

Since then, as a board-certified surgeon and a family physician with a public health degree, Dr. Mori has worked for emergency medical relief, primary care training, and capacity building for frontline health care providers at all levels in communities in Afghanistan, Guatemala, Kosovo, Laos, Nepal, and Sudan. His focus on global health has been re-establishing primary care in post-conflict communities.

Dr. Mori completed his first residency in trauma surgery at Nippon Medical School Hospital, Tokyo, Japan, and his second in family medicine at Case Western Reserve University/University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center, Cleveland, Ohio. He received his MPH at Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, and his medical degree at Tokyo Medical University, Tokyo, Japan. In his free time, Dr. Mori loves to read history books.