Takashi Suda, MD

Research Interests: Minimally invasive surgery for lung cancer and mediastinal tumor

Dr. Takashi Suda graduated from Fujita Health University. He received training in Thoracic Surgery at Fujita Health University Hospital. He was a Research Fellow in G. Alexander Patterson’s laboratory at Washington University from 1998 to 2001. After completing years working at Washington University joined the faculty at Fujita Health University Hospital and is currently a Professor in the Department of Thoracic Surgery at Fujita Health University, Japan.

His specialty is minimally invasive surgery for lung cancer and mediastinal tumor. He conducted clinical research regarding the application of video-assisted thoracic surgery (VATS) and robot-assisted surgery, and assertively establish new surgical techniques. He started using VATS to treat primary lung cancer in January 2004 and to treat thymoma in 2005. He was one of the early Japanese advocates of video-assisted surgical techniques to treat primary lung cancer and thymoma. In 2007, he devised VATS to treat malignant mesothelioma, which has become a societal problem, and was the first to be successful in the world. He performed the da Vinci robotic surgery for a lung cancer patient in 2009. It was the first case in Japan. In 2012, He developed the single-incision thymectomy using a subxiphoid approach, which was performed through a single 3-cm long incision in the abdomen to treat thymoma and myasthenia gravis. This is a ground-breaking surgical technique that minimizes patient burden. In addition, in February 2014, he devised a method for using a subxiphoid approach with a da Vinci robot system to perform thymectomy. This method is a new approach offering an excellent field of vision, excellent operability, and minimal invasiveness.

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Terms of Appointment: October 2018 - September 2020;  March 2021 - February 2023;  March 2023 - February 2025