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    Satoshi Kuroda, MD, PhD

    Professor and Chairman
    University of Toyama

    Prof. Satoshi Kuroda is a 63-year-old man and is currently Professor and Chairman of Neurosurgery at Graduate School of Medicine and Pharmaceutical Science, University of Toyama, Toyama in Japan. He graduated from Hokkaido University School of Medicine, Sapporo, Japan in 1986. He was trained as a resident at Department of Neurosurgery, Hokkaido University Hospital, Sapporo and Department of Neurosurgery, National Cardiovascular Center, Osaka between 1986 and 1992. He got Ph.D. title from Hokkaido University Graduate School of Medicine in 1995. Then, he continued basic neuroscience at Laboratory for Experimental Brain Research, Wallenberg Neuroscience Center, Lund University, Sweden under the direction of Prof. Bo K. Siesjo between April 1995 and August 1997. He has been a chief researcher of the Research Committee on Moyamoya Disease of Japan since April 2024.
    He is a skillful neurosurgeon and has operated on huge numbers of patients with cerebrovascular diseases for these 30 years. He is mainly interested in open surgery for cerebrovascular diseases, including carotid stenosis/occlusion, cerebral aneurysm, and moyamoya disease. He also has many experiences of surgery for brain tumor, spinal cord disorders, and trigeminal neuralgia/facial spasm. Total number of surgeries for these 10 years is over 2,000. His scientific interest is focused on basic and clinical research on cerebral hemodynamics and metabolism, cerebral ischemia, cell therapy for CNS disorders, and malignant glioma. He has conducted several multi-center clinical studies in Japan. He has published over 400 English-written articles that can be found in PubMed website.

    Professional Career
    1986-1989 Resident, Department of Neurosurgery, Hokkaido University Hospital, Sapporo
    1989-1990 Resident, Department of Neurosurgery, National Cardiovascular Center, Osaka
    1990-1992 Resident, Department of Neurosurgery, Hokkaido University Hospital, Sapporo
    1992-1995 Fellow, Department of Neurosurgery, Hokkaido University Hospital, Sapporo
    1995-1997 Post-doc Fellow, Wallenberg Neuroscience Center, Lund University, Lund, Sweden
    1998-2005 Associate Professor, Department of Neurosurgery, Hokkaido University Hospital, Sapporo
    2005-2012 Assistant Professor, Department of Neurosurgery, Hokkaido University Hospital, Sapporo
    2012-Present Professor and Chairman, Department of Neurosurgery, University of Toyama, Toyama
    2012-2019 Visiting Professor, Hokkaido University Graduate School of Medicine, Sapporo
    2015-2019 Assistant Director of Toyama University Hospital, Toyama

    Disclosure(s): No financial relationships to disclose

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