Mureo Kasahara, MD, PhD
Executive Director, Organ Transplantation Center, National Center for Child Health, and Development, Tokyo, Japan
Biography
National Center for Child Health and Development,Tokyo, Japan
Prof. Mureo Kasahara started his professional career in Hepatobiliary and transplant surgery at Kyoto University School of Medicine from 1996. He also served as a fellow at the Liver Transplant Surgery Service in King’s College Hospital in London, UK in 2002. He is now the Executive Director in the internationally renowned National Center for Child Health and Development in Tokyo, Japan from April 2022. Since 1996, he has been performing the largest number of living related pediatric liver transplants (2000 cases) for children from all over the world. First in human clinical study of regenerative medicine, ES cell drived hepatocyte transplantation for congenital metabolic liver disease, has achieved under his supervison in 2020 at National Center for Child Health and Development. Due to his experertise and international reputation in the field, Prof. Kasahara has been promoted to Executive Director of National Center for Child Health and Development from 2022.
Professional Training and Employment:
1992-1996 Clinical fellow of general surgery,
Gunma University School of Medicine
1996-1999 Clinical and Research Associate of Transplantation, Department of Transplant Surgery, Kyoto University School of Medicine
PhD. Gunma University School of Medicine, Gunma, Japan
1999-2002 Assistant Professor of Transplantation Surgery,
Kyoto University School of Medicine
2002-2003 Fellow, Liver Transplant Surgical Service King’s College Hospital, Denmark Hill, London, UK
2003-2005 Clinical Assistant Professor of Transplantation Surgery, Kyoto University School of Medicine
2005-2011 Director, Transplant Surgery,
National center for child health and development, Tokyo
2011-2022 Chairman, Organ Transplantation Center
National center for child health and development, Tokyo
2017-2022 Deputy Director, National Center for Child Health and Development
2022- Executive Director of Hospital, National Center for Child Health and Development
2006- Adjunct Professor, Gunma University
2012- Adjunct Professor, Iwate Medical University
2016- Adjunct Professor, Universitas Indonesia
2018- Adjunct Professor, Kainan University, China
2021- Visiting Professor, Hunan University, China
2022- Visiting Professor, St. Marianna University
2022- Adjunct Professor, Nism University, India
2022- Honorary Professor, Syzganov’s National Center of Surgery, Kazakhstan
2023- Adjunct Professor, Tokyo Healthcare University
2023- Visiting Professor, Singapore University Hospital
Motto
We will help children and their families around the world to increase their understanding of liver transplantation and improve long-term patient/ graft survival with innovative surgical skill and managements.
