Gastroesophageal Surgery
MD, PhD, FACS, Junior Associate Professor, Department of Surgery, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University; Director of Esophageal Cancer Unit, Kyoto University Cancer Center, Japan
Dr. Shigeru Tsunoda is an upper GI surgeon with experience of more than 25 years of minimally invasive surgery. He is a junior associate professor in the Department of Surgery, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, and the director of the Esophageal Cancer Unit in Kyoto University Cancer Center.
Before joining the faculty of the Department of Surgery at the Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University in 2010, he underwent a fellowship (oesophago-gastric surgery) in the Discipline of Surgery, at Royal Adelaide Hospital, the University of Adelaide under Professor Glyn G. Jamieson from 2006 to 2008. He obtained his MD at Kyoto University in 1998 and earned a Ph.D. at Kyoto University in 2008.
His main research interests are minimally invasive esophagectomy, robotic surgery, and nutrition. He is a core member of the Japan Esophageal Oncology Group of JCOG and is currently conducting a phase 3 multicenter randomized controlled trial of esophagectomy with or without prophylactic supraclavicular node dissection (JCOG2013, MODERN3).
Dr. Shigeru Tsunoda is the author of over 120 scientific articles with a Scopus H-index of 27 and more than 2,000 citations.
He is an active member of the International Society for Disease of the Esophagus (ISDE), the Japan Esophageal Society, the Japanese Gastric Cancer Association, and the Japan Society for Endoscopic Surgery (JSES).
Selected publications from PubMed
Perinatal ampicillin exposure alters murine maternal fecal bile acid and acylcarnitine profiles.
Zuffa S, Thomas SP, Patan A, Mohanty I, El Abiead Y, Deleray V, Kvitne KE, Kousha A, Suzuki E, Tsai CM, Nguyen G, Ho B, Y Liu G, Nizet V, Dorrestein PC, Askarian F, Tsunoda SM
Gut Microbes. 2026 Dec 31;18(1):2690698 doi: 10.1080/19490976.2026.2690698.
Impact of Azole Antifungals on the Conversion Ratio of Immediate-release Tacrolimus to LCP-Tacrolimus Tablets in Non-kidney Solid Organ Transplant Recipients.
Lucarelli S, Lichvar A, Le T, Kerr J, Kozuch J, Tsunoda SM, Feist A
Transplant Direct. 2026 Sep;12(9):e1987 doi: 10.1097/TXD.0000000000001987.
Comparison of minimally invasive surgery and open surgery following chemotherapy for cStage IVb gastric cancer: a multicenter retrospective cohort study.
Fujii Y, Hisamori S, Hoshino N, Kanaya S, Tanaka E, Yamashita Y, Miki A, Toda K, Yamamoto M, Kinjo Y, Manaka D, Hata H, Kawada H, Matsuda S, Itami A, Hashimoto K, Hirai K, Nakajima S, Okabe H, Sakaguchi M, Kawamura Y, Sakamoto T, Okumura S, Nishigori T, Tsunoda S, Obama K
Gastric Cancer. 2026 Sep;29(5):1150-1165 doi: 10.1007/s10120-026-01779-y.
Job resignation between cancer diagnosis and surgery in patients with gastric and esophageal cancer: a multi-institutional cross-sectional study.
Goto K, Hisamori S, Ueno K, Okamura R, Nishizaki D, Shimoike N, Tatsubayashi T, Konishi S, Nakanishi Y, Nishigori T, Kan T, Yoshida S, Okoshi K, Sakagami Y, Okumura S, Sakaguchi M, Tsunoda S, Hida K, Obama K
Int J Clin Oncol. 2026 Sep;31(9):1869-1878 doi: 10.1007/s10147-026-03089-w.
Comparison of oncological outcomes between robotic and laparoscopic surgeries for gastric cancer: a multi-institutional cohort study in Japan.
Fujita H, Nishigori T, Yamashita Y, Hosogi H, Kanaya S, Yamamoto M, Kinjo Y, Kondo M, Hata H, Kawada H, Matsuo K, Itami A, Hirai K, Kawamura Y, Manaka D, Nakajima S, Okabe H, Toda K, Tanaka E, Ito T, Miki A, Kawaguchi K, Mizuno R, Sakaguchi M, Okumura S, Hisamori S, Tsunoda S, Hida K, Ueno K, Tanaka S, Obama K, Kyoto Esophageal, Gastric Surgery Study Group
Gastric Cancer. 2026 Sep;29(5):1101-1114 doi: 10.1007/s10120-026-01761-8.
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