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Gastroenterology Lab
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The lab carries out clinical care and research together across the digestive organs, from the esophagus to the pancreas.

AboutAbout the lab
Advancing clinical care and research as one.
The Department of Gastroenterology treats diseases of a wide range of organs, from the esophagus, stomach, small intestine, and large intestine to the liver, gallbladder, and pancreas.
Clinical care is divided into the gastrointestinal, hepatobiliary-pancreatic, and chemotherapy divisions, and the latest treatments are provided under the leadership of the supervising physicians of each division.
On research, the professor's message of January 2022 states the aim of clearly defining problems faced in everyday clinical practice as research questions and producing results that lead to the development of new treatments.
On education, it states that teams including students and residents think through the problems of patients and diseases together, and are guided all the way through how to solve them.
Key terms
- Gastrointestinal tract
- A general term for the organs that food passes through, such as the esophagus, stomach, small intestine, and large intestine
- Hepatobiliary-pancreatic
- A term that groups together three organs: the liver, gallbladder, and pancreas
NewsLab news
A resident received the Specialty Trainee Encouragement Award at the Kanto Branch Meeting of the Japanese Society of Gastroenterology
A resident and a hospital lecturer, as a pair, received the Best Discussant Award at the 31st Specialist Seminar
A paper whose first author is a hospital assistant professor was published in Clinical Endoscopy
A joint study on ulcerative colitis began with Institute of Science Tokyo and Plasmedi
A multinational collaborative study of inflammatory bowel disease, compiled by a lecturer as a member of the AOCC Epidemiology Committee, was published in Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology
ResearchResearch themes
In the professor's message of January 2022, the lab states that it will clearly define problems faced in everyday clinical practice as research questions and take on challenges that only this lab can take on. It aims to pursue research from the perspective of both physician and researcher, able to understand both basic research data and clinical information, and to return the results to patients.
View More ↗MembersFaculty
The members of the Department of Gastroenterology consist of professors, associate professors, lecturers, hospital professors, hospital lecturers, hospital assistant professors, specialist physicians, and registered hospital physicians.
- ProfessorKiichiro Tsuchiya
- Associate ProfessorTaku Sakamoto
- Associate Professor (Medical Science)Kosuke Okada
- Lecturer, Clinical ProfessorToshiaki Narasaka
- LecturerNaoyuki Hasegawa
- LecturerYoshiyuki Yamamoto
- LecturerShintaro Akiyama
- LecturerTakeshi Yamada
- Hospital ProfessorEmiko Seo
- Hospital LecturerKeiko Takayama
- Hospital LecturerMariko Kobayashi
- Hospital LecturerTakafumi Ikeda
- Hospital Assistant ProfessorMasato Endo
- Hospital Assistant ProfessorYusuke Shinzato
- Hospital Assistant ProfessorYuya Hagiwara
- Hospital Assistant ProfessorSoma Fukuda
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