Yoshihiro Suematsu

Yoshihiro Suematsu, M.D., Ph.D. Chief Surgeon, Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Tsukuba Memorial Hospital Tsukuba 300-2622 Japan 029-864-1212 029-864-8135 (Fax) http://www.geocities.jp/suematsu1/curriculum.vitae.htm

Specialty

• Adult Cardiac Surgery
• Peripheral Vascular Surgery

Background

• Shiga University of Medical Science (M.D. 1994)
• Intern, Dept. of Surgery and Cardiovascular Surgery, National Nagoya Hospital, Nagoya (1994-1996)
• Resident, Dept. of Cardiovascular Surgery, National Cardiovascular Center, Osaka (1996-1998)
• Resident, Dept. of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of Tokyo Hospital, Tokyo (1998-2003)
• Lecturer of the Dept. of Pharmacology, Aichi Medical University (1999-2003)
• Surgeon, Dept. of Cardiovascular Surgery, Japanese Red Cross Medical Center, Tokyo (2000)
• University of Tokyo, graduate school of medicine (Ph.D. 2003)
• Dept. of Cardiac Surgery, Childrenfs hospital, Harvard medical school (200305)
• Dept. of Cardiac Surgery, London Health Science Centre, University of Western Ontario (2005-7)
• Assistant Professor, Dept. of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of Tokyo

Interests

• Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgery
• Surgical Robotics
• Computer Simulation
• Off-pump CABG
• Real-time 3D echocardiography
• Regenerative Medicine