Taizo Hibi, MD, PhD, FACS Department of Transplantation and Pediatric Surgery, Kumamoto University Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kumamoto, Japan
Dr. Taizo Hibi is the Professor and Chairman of the Department of Transplantation and Pediatric Surgery, Kumamoto University Graduate School of Medical Sciences. He graduated from Keio University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan in 1998. He completed his surgical residency and fellowships at National Cancer Center Hospital, Tokyo, Japan (surgical oncology and hepato-pancreato-biliary surgery), Keio University School of Medicine (hepato-pancreato-biliary surgery and living donor liver transplantation), and University of Miami Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine, Florida, U.S. (abdominal organ transplantation). He received his PhD from Keio University School of Medicine in 2010.
Dr. Hibi has extensive experience both in abdominal organ transplant surgery and surgical oncology particularly in the hepatobiliary and pancreatic field. He and his colleagues has established the concept of “Transplant Oncology,” a fusion of transplantation medicine and oncology, for eradication of cancer.
Dr. Hibi has published over 100 peer-reviewed articles. He is an associate editor of the Journal of Hepato-Biliary-Pancreatic Sciences and a member of the editorial board of Surgery. He is in the Membership and Communications Committee of International Liver Transplantation Society. He is a founding member of the International Laparoscopic Liver Society and a councilor of Japanese Society of Hepato-Biliary-Pancreatic Surgery, Japanese Liver Transplantation Society, and Japanese Society for Small Bowel Transplantation.
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