Prof. Akimichi Morita is the Vice Director of Nagoya City University Hospital and Professor and Chairman of the Department of Geriatric and Environmental Dermatology at Nagoya City University Graduate School of Medical Sciences.

He holds the position of Program Officer for the Research Center of Science Systems at the Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science.

His areas of interest are phototherapy, cutaneous immunology, and skin aging.

He is the President of the Japanese Society of Investigative Dermatology and has been involved in many other societies. In 2004, Prof. Morita was an international honorary member of Deutsche Dermatologische Gesellschaft. He has been a key member in many medicals publications especially the Journal of Dermatological Sciences (JDS) as Editor in Chief.