Seiki Hasegawa MD

Dr. Seiki Hasegawa is a Professor, Departments of Thoracic Surgery and Thoracic Oncology, Hyogo College of Medicine, Japan. He performs all kinds of general thoracic surgery, including extended resection of lung cancer, minimally invasive thoracic surgery, and particularly, mesothelioma surgery. He graduated from Kyoto University in 1983 and spent 6 residency years at the Shizuoka City Hospital and the National Himeji Hospital. He spent 4 years in his post-graduate course during 1989-1983, including two years at the Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Washington University, St. Louis as a transplant research fellow during 1991-1993. Then he worked 3 years as an assistant professor of the Department of Intensive Care Medicine, Kyoto University. In 1998, he moved to the Department of Thoracic Surgery, Kyoto University and successfully started the Lung Transplant Program.

Dr. Hasegawa moved to the Department of Thoracic Surgery, Hyogo College of Medicine in 2004. He started the Hyogo College of Medicine Mesothelioma Surgery Program and has performed more than 200 curative-intent surgery for mesothelioma. Since 2017 he has been the Chief, Department Surgery, and also the Professor, Department of Thoracic Oncology, Hyogo College of Medicine. He is currently the President of the Japan Asbestos Mesothelioma Interest Group, an Advisory Board of IASLC Staging Committee, and a Board Member of the Japanese Association for Chest Surgery and the Japanese Association for Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery.