Japanese Red Cross Maebashi Hospital
Hitoshi Igai, MD, PhD
Assistant Director, Department of General Thoracic Surgery, Japanese Red Cross Maebashi Hospital
Research interests: minimally invasive surgery, uniportal VATS, pulmonary segmentectomy
I graduated and received his medical degree from Kagawa Medical School in 2002. And, he obtained a PhD at Faculty of Medicine of Kagawa University in 2009.
I completed his Thoracic Surgery Residency at the Department of General Thoracic, Breast and Endocrinological Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, Kagawa University. I worked at Kurashiki Central Hospital as a Staff Doctor and Kagawa University as an Assistant Professor. In 2010, I was recruited to Japanese Red Cross Maebashi Hospital as an Assistant Director. Between April 2016 and March 2017, I worked as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Toronto General Hospital, Research Institute, University Health Network. On April 2017, I restarted working at Japanese Red Cross Maebashi Hospital as an Assistant Director.
I am a Board Certified Surgeon of Japan Surgical Society and Japanese Association for Chest Surgery.
My research includes ongoing studies in Minimally Invasive Surgery, especially uniportal VATS or Pulmonary Segmentectomy. He has published over 110 papers.
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