クリニックについて

　　Dr. Kenichiro Imagawa was born in 1948
in Kokura, Kitakyushu City, in southwestern
Japan. Kenichiro is the first-born son of Dr.
Yoshihiro Imagawa, an OBGYN practitioner.
Yoshihiro felt that he hadn’t been able to get
a good medical education due to the chaos
of World War II, yet he took the Educational
Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates
(ECFMGR®) exams and passed. Later, when
he was in his 40s, he decided to close his
clinic and started an internship in Brooklyn,
New York. After his internship, he accepted a
two-year residency training in anesthesiology
at Mt. Sinai Hospital.　　　　　　　　　　　
　　Kenichiro graduated from the Keio
University School of Medicine in 1974 and
followed in his father’s footsteps to become
an OBGYN by taking a residency at the Keio
University Hospital. He completed research

Dr. Imagawa and his wife, Megumi

performed over a hundred Fleming Mayer
flap surgeries himself.
　　Kenichiro has been an ISHRS member
since 1994, and has learned much from Drs.
Damkerng Pathomvanich and Jerry Wong,
whom he met at the 1997 ISHRS Annual
Scientific Meeting in Barcelona. He is cur-
rently practicing FUT and FUE as a full-time
hair surgeon in Yokohama, Japan.
　　Kenichiro served as president of the
Japan Society of Hair Restoration Surgery
in 1999 and was president of the 5th JSHRS
Annual Meeting in June 1999.　　　　　
　　Kenichiro is often invited to speak and
demonstrate selected procedures in hair
transplantation at various local and inter-
national workshops. He has contributed to
many medical journals on the topic of Asian
hair surgery, and he served as co-editor with

in “Aging of the reproductive germ cell” and received his Doc-
tor of Medicine degree in 1983. He had an interest in plastic

Dr. Pathomvanich of a new textbook by Springer in 2010
titled “Hair Restoration Surgery in Asians.”　　　　

surgery, underwent further train-
ing in this area, and then started
his own practice in Yokohama
in 1985 as the director of the
Yokobi Clinic.　　　　　　　　　　
　　In 1990, Kenichiro expressed
an interest in hair restoration and
attended a lecture about scalp
reduction and hair transplanta-
tion put on by Dr. Gerald Seery
in Sacramento, California. After
this lecture, Kenichiro decided
to pursue additional training in
hair restoration surgery and thus
began a new chapter in his life.
　　In 1992, Kenichiro attended

Dr. Imagawa and his staff

　　Kenichiro served as the pro-
gram director of the ISHRS
Regional Workshop “Asian Hair
Surgery” in Yokohama in 2007,
and is currently a diplomate of
the ABHRS.　　　　　　　　　　　
　　Kenichiro and his dad re-
ceived a special award from the
ISHRS in 2004 for the transla-
tion of the Okuda and other
Japanese pioneers’ scientific
articles on hair transplantation.
　　Kenichiro has been married
to Megumi for 18 years and has
an 18-year-old son, Hiroshi, and
a 14-year-old daughter, Risa.　

The International Symposium of Hair Replacement Surgery at
the JW Marriott, Beverly Hills, California, held by Dr. Toby
Mayer. During this symposium, he had the opportunity to ob-
serve the scalp flap technique at Dr. Mayer’s clinic and has since

　　The Imagawa family enjoys swimming and classical music;
however, Megumi will be the first to tell you her real love is
Italian opera while Kenichiro is a fan of operettas by Strauss
and Lehar.