Nobuhiro Fukunari MD

Dr. Fukunari is a Japanese Endocrine Surgeon and also an expert in thyroid ultrasound and interventions. The number of his thyroid surgeries has been over 4500 cases and the number of thyroid interventions (PEI, RFA) was over 5000 cases. He used to work for Ito Hospital (Tokyo, JPN) with Dr. Ito and Dr. Hiroshi Takami for about 10 years. At present, he has been working for Showa Univ. Hospital as the professor of Surgery and facing thyroid surgery, imaging diagnosis, and intervention. 

He would like to join an ATA member and work together in the clinical thyroid fields, which include minimally invasive surgery, differential diagnosis of follicular neoplasm, the clinical introduction of thyroid interventions of PEI and RFA for the treatment of not only thyroid benign nodules but malignant cases.