Seiji Yamada was born in Hiroshima and grew up in a suburb of Chicago. He obtained his M.D. from the University of Illinois at Chicago in 1987 and completed a residency in family medicine at the Cook County Hospital in Chicago in 1990. He obtained a Masters in Public Health from the University of Hawai‘i in 1996. He practiced in the Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas Islands from 1990 to 1993. He has practiced in Hawaiʻi since 1994. As Professor in the University of Hawai‘i Department of Family Medicine & Community Health, he teaches medical students and trains family medicine residents. His clinical interests include mental health, hepatitis B, Hansen’s disease, and tuberculosis. His academic interests include social medicine, Pacific Islander health, militarism, community health, access to health caref or the underserved, disaster relief, and climate change. Most of his writings can be found at https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Seiji_Yamada