Masatoshi MAKUUCHI, M.D., Ph.D., FACS Tokyo, Japan
Honorary President IASGO
Professor Masatoshi MAKUUCHI is the President of the Towa Hospital, an Emeritus President of the Japanese Red Cross Medical Center (Tokyo, Japan), and an Emeritus Professor of the University of Tokyo.
Ongraduating from the University of Tokyo, School of Medicine in 1973, hewent on to be trained as a surgeon at the 2nd Department of Surgery, University of Tokyo. After servingat regional hospitalsfrom the period of 1973 to 79, he went on to workat the National Cancer Center Japan, Department of Surgery, specializing in HBP surgery. At the Cancer Center, he was appointed as Head surgeon of the Hepatobiliary Division in 1988, and then as Chief Surgeon of the Operation Department in 1989. In October1989, he became Professor and Chairmanofthe 1stDepartment of Surgery, Shinshu University, School of Medicine (Nagano, Japan).
He moved back from Shinshu to Tokyo in 1994 to be appointed as Professor and Chairman for the 2ndDepartment of Surgery, University of Tokyo, Faculty of Medicine. He then went on to serve as Professor and Chairman for Hepatobiliary Pancreatic Surgery Division, and Artificial Organ and Transplantation Surgery Division of Department of Surgery, University of Tokyo,Graduate School of Medicine.
From 2007 to 2017, he served as President of the Japanese Red Cross Medical Center until he moved to the current positionat TOWA Hospital in April 2017.