Dr. Toshio Nakagawa graduated the Sapporo Medical University in 1977. His specialty is neurosurgery. He earned his Ph.D. from Sapporo Medical University in 1994, and served as its Clinical Professor in Department of Neurosurgery and then in its Graduate School of Medicine.

In 1988, he established Shinsapporo Neurosurgical Hospital and started the world’s first service of “brain dock”, in depth inspections of brain. In 1992, he launched the Japan Brain Dock Society.

He was serving as an Executive Board Member of the Hokkaido Medical Association in 1997 to 2007. He was also working as an Executive Board Member of the Japan Medical Association (JMA) in 2006 to 2010 and as a Vice-President of JMA since  2010. Then he was elected as the 20th JMA president in June 2020.

He has been also serving as a core member of many important committees of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare including the Central Social Insurance Medical Council, the Health Sciences Council and the Social Security Council.