Shuichiro Takanashi Web

The reason why I could establish myself as a heart surgeon
who performs the greatest number of cases in Japan.
I’d like to deliver the knowledge and thoughts obtained
from my own experiences as a heart surgeon.

Photo by Junya Inagaki

What motivated me to aim to be a heart
surgeon was a word of a surgeon.

"Cardiac surgery offers no money, no free time,
no status, full of unavailability.
You cannot expect something good to happen
if you become a heart surgeon."

What’s New

5th meeting of The Society for Stentless Mitral Valves 2016

Date：September 11 (Sun), 2016
Venue：Osaka University, Tokyo branch of the Graduate School of Medical and Engineering
President：Shuichiro Takanashi (Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Sakakibara Heart Institute)

Tokyo HOCM Forum 2016

Date：October 29 (Sat), 2016
Venue：Shinjuku NS Building, Sky Conference
Organizer：Morimasa Takayama (Department of Cardiology, Sakakibara Heart Institute)

INTERVIEW

Line-ups of Doctors

Vol.4 of the series of interviews by Dr. Hiroyuki Watanabe (Tokyo Bay Urayasu/Ichikawa Medical Center) featuring Dr. Shuichiro Takanashi (Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Sakakibara Heart Institute) who performs surgery at Live Surgery session of Tokyo Echo Labo meeting.

Hospital Affiliations

Kawasaki saiwai hospital

31-27 Omiya-cho, Saiwai-ku Kawasaki Kanagawa
212-0014, Japan
Phone:+81-44-544-4611

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Sakakibara Heart Institute

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Japanese Society for Heart Valve Disease

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MEDIA INSIDE

Doctor’s Magazine
April issue, 2014

Portrait of a doctor
Shuichiro Takanashi (Assistant Director/Chief of Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery of Sakakibara Heart Institute, Japan Research Promotion Society for Cardiovascular Diseases and Specially Appointed Professor of Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Teikyo University Faculty of Medicine), An Expert in Cardiac Surgery backed by record number of surgeries exceeding five thousand + several hundreds, now reaching “the state of no-scalpel”…