Katsuhiko Yanaga MD, PhD, FACS

Katsuhiko Yanaga is a Professor and Division Chief of Digestive Surgery at The Jikei University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan. He graduated from Kyushu University, Japan in 1979 and underwent general surgical training in Japan and USA, while trained in liver transplantation at the University of Pittsburgh under Dr. Starzl during the vintage years (1986-1989). Prof. Yanaga is the Governor-at-Large of the American College of Surgeons representing Japan, a board member of three Japanese surgical societies, and a Councilor of the Japan Society of Hepatology, Liver Cancer Study Group of Japan and Japanese Liver Transplantation Society.