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Tomohiro Tanaka, MD, MPH

Clinical Associate Professor of Internal Medicine-Gastroenterology and Hepatology

Current Positions

  • Clinical Associate Professor of Internal Medicine-Gastroenterology and Hepatology
  • Clinical Associate Professor of Health Management and Policy, College of Public Health
  • Medical Director, Living Donor Liver Transplantation, University of Iowa Hospitals & Clinics

Education

  • MD, Nagoya University School of Medicine, Showa-ku, Japan
  • Resident, Internal Medicine, Tokyo Teishin Hospital, Tokyo, Japan
  • Fellow, Gastroenterology, Musashino Red Cross Hospital, Tokyo, Japan
  • Fellow, Transplant Hepatology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
  • PhD, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
  • MPH, University of Massachusetts-Amherst, Amherst, Massachusetts

Selected Publications

  • Tanaka, T., Ashat, D., Sun, S., Laroia, S. & Karwal, M. (2020). Performing thermal ablations for hepatomas - is it a worthy skill for hepatologists?. Ann Hepatol S1665-2681. PMID: 32546443.
  • Chadha, R., De Martin, E., Kabacam, G., Kirchner, V., Kalisvaart, M., Goldaracena, N., Tanaka, T., Spiro, M., Sapisochin, G., Vinaixa, C., Hessheimer, A., Campos-Varela, I., Rammohan, A., Yoon, Y. I., Victor, D., Scalera, I., Chan, A. & Bhangui, P. (2020). Proceedings of the 25th Annual Congress of the International Liver Transplantation Society. Transplantation. DOI: 10.1097/TP.0000000000003160. PMID: 32028344.
  • Tanaka, T. & Voigt, M. D. (2019). Improved survival with direct acting antivirals in hepatitis C liver transplants is associated with reduced rate and impact of rejection. J Hepatobiliary Pancreat Sci 26 (9) 393-400.
  • Arora, S., Klair, J., Bellizzi, A. M. & Tanaka, T. (2019). L-carnitine for asparaginase induced hepatotoxicity. ACG Case Rep J 6 (8) p e00194. PMID: 31737724.
  • Tanaka, T., Ansari, M. S., Laroia, S. T. & Sun, S. (2018). Impact of a hepatologist in performing microwave ablation of hepatocellular carcinoma in North America: A Pilot project. Ann Hepatol 18 (1) 11-13.
  • Nishida, N., Aiba, Y., Hitomi, Y., Kawashima, M., Kojima, K., Kawai, Y., Ueno, K., Nakamura, H., Yamashiki, N., Tanaka, T., Tamura, S., Mori, A., Yagi, S., Soejima, Y., Yoshizumi, T., Takatsuki, M., Tanaka, A., Harada, K., Shimoda, S., Komori, A., Eguchi, S., Maehara, Y., Uemoto, S., Kokudo, N., Nagasaki, M., Tokunaga, K. & Nakamura, M. (2018). NELFCD and CTSZ loci are associated with jaundice-stage progression in primary biliary cholangitis in the Japanese population. Sci Rep 8 (1) 8071. PMID: 29795304.
  • Tanaka, T. & Voigt, M. D. (2018). Decision tree analysis to stratify risk of de novo non-melanoma skin cancer following liver transplantation. J Cancer Res Clin Oncol 144 (3) 607-615.
  • Masadeh, M., Shen, H., Lee, Y., Gunderson, A., Brown, K., Bellizzi, A. & Tanaka, T. (2017). A fatal case of herpes simplex virus hepatitis in a pregnant patient. Intractable Rare Dis Res 6 (2) 124-127. PMID: 28580213.
  • Kawashima, M., Hitomi, Y., Aiba, Y., Nishida, N., Kojima, K., Kawai, Y., Nakamura, H., Tanaka, A., Zeniya, M., Hashimoto, E., Ohira, H., Yamamoto, K., Abe, M., Nakao, K., Yamagiwa, S., Kaneko, S., Honda, M., Umemura, T., Ichida, T., Seike, M., Sakisaka, S., Harada, M., Yokosuka, O., Ueno, Y., Senju, M., Kanda, T., Shibata, H., Himoto, T., Murata, K., Miyake, Y., Ebinuma, H., Taniai, M., Joshita, S., Nikami, T., Ota, H., Kouno, H., Kouno, H., Nakamuta, M., Fukushima, N., Kohjima, M., Komatsu, T., Komeda, T., Ohara, Y., Muro, T., Yamashita, T., Yoshizawa, K., Nakamura, Y., Shimada, M., Hirashima, N., Sugi, K., Ario, K., Takesaki, E., Naganuma, A., Mano, H., Yamashita, H., Matsushita, K., Yamauchi, K., Makita, F., Nishimura, H., Furuta, K., Takahashi, N., Kikuchi, M., Masaki, N., Tanaka, T., Tamura, S., Mori, A., Yagi, S., Shirabe, K., Komori, A., Migita, K., Ito, M., Nagaoka, S., Abiru, S., Yatsuhashi, H., Yasunami, M., Shimoda, S., Harada, K., Egawa, H., Maehara, Y., Uemoto, S., Kokudo, N., Takikawa, H., Ishibashi, H., Chayama, K., Mizokami, M., Nagasaki, M., Tokunaga, K. & Nakamura, M. (2017). Genome-wide association studies identify PRKCB as a novel genetic susceptibility locus for primary biliary cholangitis in the Japanese population. Hum Mol Genet 26 (3) 650-659. PMID: 28062665.
  • Tanaka, T., Akamatsu, N., Sakamoto, Y., Inagaki, Y., Oshiro, Y., Ohkohchi, N., Okamoto, H. & Kokudo, N. (2016). Treatment with ribavirin for chronic hepatitis E following living donor liver transplantation: A case report. Hepatol Res 46 (10) 1058-9. PMID: 26725743.

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