Eiji KANEHIRA

Eiji Kanehira

Japan

Senior consultant surgeon

Department of Surgery, Medical Topia Soka

Brief Bio of Eiji Kanehira Eiji Kanehira was born in Kyoto, Japan in 1960. He graduated from Kanazawa Univ. in 1985 and worked at the Section of Minimally Invasive Surgery, Department of Surgery, Tuebingen Univ. 1991- 1992 under the direction of Prof. Gerhard Buess. After coming back to Japan, he focused on endoscopic surgery and organ preserving surgery as one of the pioneers at the dawn of the new era of endoscopic surgery. As Japan’s first freelance surgeon, he did not belong to any institute and walked about all Japan and foreign countries as well to perform invited surgery for about 250 cases a year. This unique activities were picked up by a lot of medias and TV programs and were broadcasted. He was assigned to be the director of a virtual lab., ELK (Endosurgery Laboratory Kanehira) since 2002. In addition, he established AMESA (Ageo Medical Group Endosurgery Academy) in 2009 and became the chief director. Since 2012 he has been the CEO and senior consultant surgeon at Medical Topia Soka, where he is currently performing organ preserving surgeries. Among “organ preserving surgeries”, he has been focusing especially on “complete preservation of the stomach for any gastric submucosal tumors” and “transanal endoscopic microsurgery (TEM) for rectal diseases. He underwent spine surgery (posterior fixation) for spinal canal stenosis and nerve root stenosis in December 2022. At the time of the current congress, he is still on the way to recovery. Eiji Kanehira has been the Editor-in-Chief of an international journal “Minimally Invasive Therapy & Allied Technologies” since 2010 (Impact Factor: 2.18 (2021)). https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/imit20/current　 The half Kanehira life was made into Manga “Be a maverick”. https://www.drsgate.com/company/c00042/kanehira_index.php? 　 Eiji Kanehira has a YouTube self-introduction in Japanese https://youtu.be/d_r0COhFlbY

Minimally invasive Digestive organ surgery, Organ preserving surgery

Kanazawa University

Ogami Award 2011, Japan Society for Endoscopic Surgery International Honorary Member of Italian Society for Endoscopic Surgery (SICE) 2019-

1) Kanehira E, Kamei A, Umezawa A, Kurita A, Tanida T, Nakagi M. Long-term outcomes of percutaneous endoscopic intragastric surgery in the treatment of gastrointestinal stromal tumors at the esophagogastric junction. Surg Endosc. 2016 May;30(5):2036-42. doi: 10.1007/s00464-015-4439-8. Epub 2015 Jul 23. PMID: 26201418. 2) Kanehira E, Tanida T, Kanehira AK, Takahashi K, Obana Y, Iwasaki M, Sagawa K. A New Technique to Repair Vesicorectal Fistula: Overlapping Rectal Muscle Plasty by Transanal Endoscopic Surgery. Urol Int. 2021;105(3-4):309-315. doi: 10.1159/000512379. Epub 2021 Jan 11. PMID: 33429395. 3) Kanehira E, Kanehira AK, Tanida T, Takahashi K, Obana Y, Sasaki K. CLEAN-NET: a modified laparoendoscopic wedge resection of the stomach to minimize the sacrifice of innocent gastric wall. Surg Endosc. 2020 Jan;34(1):290-297. doi: 10.1007/s00464-019-06765-3. Epub 2019 Apr 2. PMID: 30941549. 4) Kanehira E, Tanida T, Kamei A, Nakagi M, Hideshima A. A single surgeon's experience with transanal endoscopic microsurgery over 20 years with 153 early cancer cases. Minim Invasive Ther Allied Technol. 2014 Jan;23(1):5-9. doi: 10.3109/13645706.2013.868814. Epub 2013 Dec 12. PMID: 24328981. 5) Kanehira E, Tanida T, Kamei A, Takahashi K. Minimally Invasive, Organ-preserving Surgery for Large Submucosal Tumors in the Abdominal Esophagus. Surg Laparosc Endosc Percutan Tech. 2017 Jun;27(3):189-193. doi: 10.1097/SLE.0000000000000403. PMID: 28441166.