Kumiko Taira
Tokyo Women’s Medical University Medical Center East, Japan
Biography
Dr. Kumiko Taira received her medical degree from Kobe University in 1982. Since 2001, she has been involved in studying the effects of environmental exposure of organophosphates and neonicotinoids on the human health in collaboration with Dr. Yoshiko Aoyama in Gunma, and published eleven academic articles.Dr. Taira is a part-time lecturer at the Department of Anesthesiology at Tokyo Women’s Medical University Medical Center East, a part-time lecturer at the Department of Environmental Education at Tokyo Kasei University, a board member of the Japanese Society of Clinical Ecology, and the chair of the Public Health working group of IUCN Task Force on Systemic Pesticides.
Abstract
Abstract : May neonicotinoid insecticide cause neurodevelopmental disorder by environmental exposure?