was a Japanese surgeon who became the first president of the Fukuoka Medical College that was founded in 1903 as a branch of the Medical Faculty of

Kyōto University , mottoeng = Freedom of academic culture , established = , type = Public (National) , endowment = ¥ 316 billion (2.4 billion USD) , faculty = 3,480 (Teaching Staff) , administrative_staff = 3,978 (Total Staff) , students = 22 ...

(''Kyōto teikoku daigaku Fukuoka ika-daigaku'', now the Faculty of Medicine,

Kyushu University , abbreviated to , is a Japanese national university located in Fukuoka, on the island of Kyushu. It was the 4th Imperial University in Japan, ranked as 4th in 2020 Times Higher Education Japan University Rankings, one of the top 10 Design ...

). Ōmori was born in Edo, but he grew up in the domain Kaminoyama (

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, nowadays

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) where his father Ōmori Kaishun served as a physician to lord Matsudaira Nobumichi. In 1879 he graduated from

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; the same year he went to a new post in the newly established Fukuoka Medical School. In 1888 when this school was abolished, he was appointed as the first director of the Fukuoka Prefectural Hospital. In 1885, he performed the first

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operation in Japan. Dr. Omori laid the foundation for

Faculty of Medicine before retiring in 1909.Kyushu University Archive (ed.): One Hundred Years of Kyushu University. Fukuoka, 2011, pp.10-17 (in Japanese, Kyūshū Daigaku hyakunen-shi shashin-shū) He did from a kidney trouble and was buried in the Sōfuku-Temple (

Sōfuku-ji (Fukuoka) is a Rinzai temple in Hakata-ku, Fukuoka, Japan. Its honorary '' sangō'' prefix is . The temple was founded by the monk in Dazaifu in 1240, but was moved to its present location in 1600 after it became the Kuroda family temple. History The ...

next to the campus of the medical faculty. File:Omori-dori-Kyushu-University.jpg, Ōmori memorial stone at the Ōmori-Street and the Kyushu University Medical History Museum (Maidashi-Campus) File:Sculpture of Omori Harutoyo in Kyushu University Hospital.jpg, Statue of Ōmori Harutoyo near the university hospital File:Ōmori-Harutoyo-1852-1912-President-Kyushu-University.jpg, Grave of Ōmori Harutoyo in the graveyard of the Sōfuku-Temple)

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Department of Surgery, Kyushu University
(in Japanese)

(in Japanese) {{DEFAULTSORT:Ohmori, Harutoyo 1852 births 1912 deaths Japanese surgeons Academic staff of Kyushu University

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