Career[edit]

After his graduation from the Shimane Medical University (present-day Medical Faculty of Shimane University) in 1997, Iwata became a medical intern worked at Okinawa Prefectural Chubu Hospital.^[3][4] In the next year, he became a medical intern worked at St. Luke's Roosevelt Hospital of Columbia University.^[3][4]


Iwata started his career as an internist at Mount Sinai Beth Israel in 2001.^[4] In 2004, he returned to Japan and hired by Kameda Medical Center, he was appointed the head of Division of Infectious Disease, head of Comprehensive Medical Infectious Diseases.^[3][4] Since 2008 he served as Clinical Department Head Professor of Kobe University.^[2][3][4]