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Become a member and receive career-enhancing benefits

Our top priority is providing value to members. Your Member Services team is here to ensure you maximize your ACS member benefits, participate in College activities, and engage with your ACS colleagues. It's all here.

Become a Member
Become a member and receive career-enhancing benefits

Our top priority is providing value to members. Your Member Services team is here to ensure you maximize your ACS member benefits, participate in College activities, and engage with your ACS colleagues. It's all here.

Membership Benefits
ACS
ACS Fellow Since 1996

Katsuhiko Yanaga, MD PhD FACS

Society Memberships

  • Soc for Surg Alim Tract
  • Intl Soc, Surg/Soc Int Ch

Additional Information

Gender

Male

Type of Practice

Mixed Academic/Private

General Surgery

International University of Health & Welfare (Fukuoka Campus)

Graduate Medical School

2-4-16 Momochihama, Sawara-ku

Fukuoka

Japan

Contact Information

Subspecialties and Areas of Clinical Concentration

Critical Care

Abdomen and Digestion Disorder/Procedure

  • Abdomen and Digestion Disorder/Procedure
  • gastric cancer
  • gastroesophageal reflux disease
  • peritonitis
  • splenectomy

Liver, Gallbladder, Pancreas Disor/Proc

  • bile duct malignancies
  • bile duct surgery
  • biliary tract disease
  • cholecystectomy
  • gallbladder cancer
  • gallstone disease
  • hepatic artery infusion pumps
  • hepatobiliary surgery
  • laparoscopic cholecystectomy
  • liver surgery
  • liver/hepatic disease
  • pancreatic cancer
  • pancreatic cysts
  • pancreatitis

Hernia Procedures

Minimal Access Surgery

Colon and Rectal Disorders/Cancer

Minimally Invasive Procedures

  • doppler ultrasound
  • embolization procedures
  • endoscopic surgery
  • laparoscopic surgery
  • tumor ablation

Surgical Oncology (Cancer/Tumors)

  • colon cancer/polyps
  • colon/rectal cancer
  • esophagus cancer/tumors
  • gastrointestinal cancer/tumors
  • pancreatic cancer/tumors
  • stomach cancer/tumors
  • Surgical Oncology (Cancer/Tumors)

Transplantation

  • intestinal transplant
  • liver transplant
  • pancreas transplant

Hospital Appointments

Oita Red Cross Hospital

Oita, Japan,

Attending

08/1983—03/1984

Kyushu University Hospital

Fukuoka, Japan,

Chief

08/1989—03/1998

Matsuyama Red Cross Hospital

Matsuyama, Japan,

Chief

04/1998—03/2000

Nagasaki University Hospital

Nagasaki, Japan,

Chief

04/2000—03/2003

The Jikei University Hospital

Tokyo, Japan,

Director

04/2003—03/2020

Fukuoka Sanno Hospital

Fukuoka, Japan,

Consultant, Urological Surgeon

04/2020—Present

Academic Appointments

Kyushu University Faculty of Medicine

Assistant Professor

08/1989—03/1998

Nagasaki University School of Medicine

Associate Professor

04/2000—03/2003

The Jikei University School of Medicine

Professor

04/2003—03/2020

The Jikei University School of Medicine (Professor Emeritus)

Other

04/2020—Present

International University of Health and Welfare, Fukuoka Campus

Professor

04/2020—Present