Shuichiro Shiina MD, PhD

Shuichiro Shiina graduated in Medicine at the University of Tokyo in 1982. He completed a residency and fellowship training at the University of Tokyo Hospital and Mitsui Memorial Hospital. He received a Ph.D. degree in Medical Science with a study “A randomized controlled trial of radiofrequency ablation with ethanol injection for small hepatocellular carcinoma” at the University of Tokyo in 2005. He moved to Juntendo University in December 2012.

Dr. Shiina has been a pioneer of image-guided percutaneous ablation therapies for liver tumors, such as percutaneous ethanol injection, microwave ablation, and radiofrequency ablation. He has performed radiofrequency ablation on over 10,000 patients with liver tumors.

Dr. Shiina published over 200 international scientific papers in high-quality English Journal and over 300 domestic scientific papers. He is a member of The American Gastroenterological Association, Asian Pacific Association for the Study of the Liver, The International Liver Cancer Association, The Japanese Society of Internal Medicine, The Japanese Society of Gastroenterology, The Japan Society of Hepatology, The Japan Society of Ultrasonics in Medicine, The Liver Cancer Study Group of Japan, Study Group of Microwave Surgery, The Japan Society of Clinical Oncology, The Japan Pancreas Society, and Japanese Society of Interventional Radiology, and others.