Dr Takahiro KINOSHITA 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 1800 laparoscopic surgeries and 300 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 and Korea). Furthermore, he has currently served on editorial boards of Gastric Cancer, and editorial committee of Japanese Gastric Cancer Treatment Guidelines, since 2022 director of JGCA (Japan Gastric Cancer Association). He is one of the core members of JCOG (Japan Clinical Oncology Group), primary investigator of JCOG1809 study. He focuses on education of the young doctors, and has trained both many domestic and oversea doctors at his hospitals so far.