Takeshi Sano, MD, PhD, FRCS

Dr. Takeshi Sano is the Hospital Director at the Cancer Institute Hospital of the Japanese Foundation for Cancer Research. He graduated from the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Tokyo in 1980 and earned his PhD in 1993. Dr. Sano has held prominent positions, including Staff Surgeon and Chief at the National Cancer Center Hospital (1993–2008) and Director of the Gastric Surgery Division at the Cancer Institute Hospital (from August 2008). Since July 2018, he has served as the Hospital Director.​

His academic contributions include serving on the council of the Japanese Gastric Cancer Association and as Secretary General of the International Gastric Cancer Association. Dr. Sano is an honorary fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England and Edinburgh and an honorary member of several surgical associations worldwide. As an editor of the journal Gastric Cancer, he has authored over 170 English-language papers in peer-reviewed journals. Internationally, Dr. Sano has performed live gastrectomy demonstrations and participated in advanced surgical courses across multiple continents.