Kazuhiro Yasufuku MD, PhD, FCCP

Dr. Kazuhiro Yasufuku is Associate Professor of Surgery at the University of Toronto, Staff Thoracic Surgeon at the Division of Thoracic Surgery at Toronto General Hospital. He is the Director of the Interventional Thoracic Surgery Program at the University Health Network (UHN) which includes the Interventional Thoracic Surgery Animal OR capable of high end endoscopic development and the “State of the art” Interventional Thoracic Surgery Suite at the Toronto General Hospital for clinical application of new developments. He is also the clinical lead of Thoracic Surgery within the GTx program within UHN. He also leads the Thoracic Robotic Surgery Program at the University Health Network.

He is a graduate of Japan’s Chiba University School of Medicine in 1992, completing his Doctor of Medicine (PhD) in 2002. Prior to joining the Division of Thoracic Surgery as a staff surgeon and Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto in 2008, he had been a staff surgeon at Chiba University since 2003. He was promoted to Associate Professor at the University of Toronto in 2013.