Mureo Kasahara MD, PhD

Dr. Mureo Kasahara started his professional career in transplant surgery at Kyoto University School of Medicine as a hepatic and transplant surgeon in 1996. He also served as a fellow at the Liver Transplant Surgery Service at King’s College Hospital in London, UK. He is now the Head of the Transplant Center in the internationally renowned National Center for Child Health and Development in Tokyo, Japan since 2010 where he has been performing the largest number of living-related pediatric liver transplants for children from all over the world.

He has been with Kyoto University, Japan as a hepatic and transplant surgeon. he is the director of the organ transplantation center at the National Children's Hospital, in Tokyo, Japan. He has pediatric liver transplant experience, 80 cases per year, which covers 70% of Japanese Pediatric Liver Transplantation.