Hiroaki Ito
Digestive Disease Center
Showa University Northern Yokohama Hospital
Japan
Biography
25 April 1967 Born in Niigata, Japan March 1993 B.A. in Medical Course, School of Medicine, Jichi Medical University March 1993 Doctor of Medicine, Jichi Medical University April 1993 Joined Department of Surgery, Niigata University Medical and Dental Hospital November 2004 Master of Philosophy in Medicine, Niigata University December 2005 Board Certified Surgeon of the Japan Surgical Society April 2006 Deputy Physician-in-Chief of Division of Gastric Surgery, Shizuoka Cancer Center, Shizuoka, Japan January 2007 Board Certified Surgeon in Gastroenterology of the Japanese Society of Gastroenterological Surgery April 2007 Research Fellow of Oncology, Shizuoka Cancer Center Research Institute January 2009 Board Certified Gastroenterologist of the Japanese Society of Gastroenterology February 2009 Assistant Professor of Digestive Surgery, Digestive Disease Center, Showa University Northern Yokohama Hospital
Research Interest
His main research interests are Detection, sorting and analysis of circulating tumor cells and Super-early diagnosis and estimation of treatment efficacy of cancer