Takahiro KINOSHITA

National Cancer Center Hospital East

M.D., Ph.D., FACS

Chief Director, Gastric Surgery Division, National Cancer Center Hospital East, Japan

Medical educations: 

1994 Graduated from Kanazawa University School of Medicine (MD)

1999 Graduated from Kanazawa University Graduate School of Medicine (PhD)

Surgical practices:

1994 – 2001 Department of Surgery, Kanazawa University, and related hospitals

2001 – 2003 Division of Minimal Invasive Surgery, Department of General Surgery, Eberhard-Karls University of Tuebingen (Germany)

Clinical positions as staff surgeon after practices:

2003 – 2004 Head Surgeon, Department of Surgery, Tsuruga Municipal Hospital

2004 – 2010 Associate Professor, Department of Surgery, Toho University Sakura Medical Center Hospital

2010 – 2012 Head Surgeon, Gastric Surgery Division, Department of Surgical Oncology, National Cancer Center Hospital East 

2012 - Chief Director, ditto

2023 - Visiting Professor, Saitama Medical University

Awards: 

2001 - 2002 German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)

2008 　        Best poster presentation in world congress of endoscopic surgery

2015 　        Academic research fund of Japanese Gastric Cancer Association

2015　        Research fund of Novartis Pharma

Live demonstration laparoscopic gastric cancer surgeries in foreign countries:  

More than 20 live demonstrations in India, China, Vietnam and Russia

Editorial Boards: 

Gastric Cancer (Springer)

Membership of medical society: 

Fellowship of American College of Surgeons (FACS)/ Japan Surgical Society (Board Certified Surgeon) 

The Japanese Society of Gastrointestinal Surgery (Board Member, Board Certified Surgeon, International Affairs Commitee)

Japan Society for Endoscopic Surgery (Board Certified Surgeon, Skill-qualified Surgeon, Certified proctor for robotic surgery, Robotic Surgery Review Committee)

apan Gastroenterological Endoscopic Society (Board Certified Doctor) / Japanese Gastric Cancer Association (Director, Chairman of COI Committee, Chairman of Educational Committee, Member of JGCA Treatment Guideline Editorial Committee, Future Vision Committee)/ Japanese Robotic Surgery Association (Board Certified Member “International Class A”)

Japanese Society for Gastro-surgical Pathophysiology (Board Certified Doctor)/ Japan Clinical Oncology Group (JCOG) (scientific core member) 

European Association for Endoscopic Surgery (EAES) / Upper GI International Robotic Association (UGIRA) (Senior Member)/ Honorable member of Peruvian Surgical Society