Japan Society of Advanced Medical Sciences; Japan

Hisashi Takeuchi is currently a Department Chair in Department of Urology at Shinmatsudo Central General Hospital and the president of the Japan Society of Advanced Medical Sciences in Japan. He received a M.D at Tokyo Medical University, Japan, in 2004. After a residency in urology, he obtained a Ph.D from the Tokyo Medical University. He completed a postdoctoral fellowship in the laboratory of Ashish M Kamat at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center (TX, USA). He became an Assistant Professor of Urology at the Tokyo Medical University, Japan, in 2016. As a urologist, he has been practicing urology. In surgery, he specializes in endourology and robotic surgery. He serves as the president of the Japan Society of Advanced Medical Sciences, and in that role he is committed to improving the safety, the quality of medical care, and even medical ethics of advanced medical sciences.