Takahiro KINOSHITA

Takahiro KINOSHITA Chief Director Department of Gastric Surgery National Cancer Center Hospital East, Japan

Takahiro KINOSHITA
Chief Director
Department of Gastric Surgery
National Cancer Center Hospital East, Japan

Biosketch

Dr. Kinoshita received his MD in 1994 and PhD in 1999 from Kanazawa University in Japan. From the very first point of his clinical career, he had already believed that the less invasive surgery must be one of the most important surgical skills for him to obtain for cancer treatment, and that idea led him to study under the supervision of renowned surgeon, Dr. Gerhard Buess in the Division of Minimal Invasive Surgery, Department of General Surgery, Eberhard-Karls University of Tuebingen (Germany) in 2001-2003.

Since then, Dr. Kinoshita has focused on the minimal invasive gastric/esophagogastric junction cancer surgery, and now his experiences are more extended to not only laparoscopic surgery (since 2003) but also robotic surgery (since 2014). His experiences reached around 2500 laparoscopic and 550 robotic surgeries.

As his academic achievements and experiences, he has published more than 180 peer-reviewed articles, conducted and attended multi-institutional clinical trials, demonstrated more than twenty live surgeries in many countries (China, Vietnam, Russia, India, and Korea). Furthermore, he is currently in the editorial board of Gastric Cancer, and editorial committee of Japanese Gastric Cancer Treatment Guidelines, the board of directors of JGCA (Japan Gastric Cancer Association), and the senior member of UGIRA (Upper GI International Robotic Association). He is one of the core members of JCOG (Japan Clinical Oncology Group), and the primary investigator of JCOG1809 study. He also focuses on education of the young doctors and has trained both domestic and oversea doctors as the chairman of educational committee of JGCA.