IWAO SUGITANI

Professor & Chairman of Department of Endocrine Surgery, Nippon Medical School Graduate School of Medicine, Tokyo.
Active member of the International Association of Endocrine Surgeons (IAES), corresponding member of the American Association of Endocrine Surgeons (AAES) and of the American Thyroid Association (ATA), member of the Endocrine Society, member of the advisory committee of the Asian Association of Endocrine Surgeons (AsAES), council member of the Asia Oceania Thyroid Association (AOTA), vice-chairperson of the board of directors for the Japan Association of Endocrine Surgeons (JAES), member of the board of directors for the Japan Thyroid Association (JTA), member of the board of directors for Lift Ecologic Endoscopy & Minimal Incision Surgery.
Representative organizer of the Anaplastic Thyroid Carcinoma Research Consortium of Japan (ATCCJ).
Research interest: clinical studies for thyroid cancer including active surveillance of low-risk papillary microcarcinoma, risk stratification of papillary thyroid carcinoma, clinical trials for anaplastic thyroid carcinoma.