Yuko KITAGAWA

Yuko KITAGAWA Professor and Chairman Department of Surgery Graduate School of Medicine Keio University, Japan

Yuko KITAGAWA
Professor and Chairman
Department of Surgery
Graduate School of Medicine
Keio University, Japan

Biosketch

Dr. Kitagawa is a surgical oncologist and a clinical and translational researcher who mainly focuses on the areas of gastrointestinal cancers. He has published 1057 articles in English peer-reviewed journals. He was a chair of the Japan Esophageal Oncology Group (2012-2023) and works as a principal investigator (PI) for many important nationwide clinical studies, including on multimodal treatment for esophageal cancer.

As an outstanding surgical and multimodal oncologist, he served as the Society President of the Japanese Society of Gastroenterological Surgery(2019-2023) and Japan Society of Clinical Oncology(2015-2019)

He is also active on the international stage, as demonstrated by his contributions as President of the International Society for Diseases of the Esophagus (2016-2018). He serves as a bridge between the East and the West in the realm of upper GI oncology. As part of this role, he organized the 16th Congress of International Society for Diseases of the Esophagus in Vienna in 2018.