Dr. Tadahiro Uemura is a highly respected transplant surgeon specializing in liver, kidney, and pancreas transplantation. With over 20 years of experience, he performs state-of-the-art hepatobiliary surgery and minimally invasive robotic liver and gall bladder surgery. He is also an expert in living donor liver transplantation. Dr. Uemura is System Director of AHN Center for Abdominal Transplantation and Hepatobiliary Surgery and Professor of Surgery at Drexel University School of Medicine.
Dr. Uemura earned his medical degree at Okayama University Medical School and completed his surgical residency at Okayama University Hospital in Okayama, Japan. He completed surgical and transplant fellowships in surgical oncology at the National Shikoku Center in Matsuyama, Japan, transplant surgery at Jackson Memorial Hospital, University of Miami, Miami, Florida, and transplant surgery at Baylor University Medical Center in Dallas, Texas.
Visiting Clinical Fellow, Thomas E. Starzl Transplantation Institute, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Prior to joining AGH Liver and Transplantation, Dr. Uemura was surgical director of Pancreas Transplantation and surgical director of Kidney and Pancreas Transplantation at Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, Pennsylvania State University, in Hershey, Pa.
During his career, Dr. Uemura wrote or co-authored more than 100 articles. He is a member of the American Society of Transplant Surgeons, International Liver Transplantation Society, Japanese Society of Surgery, and Japanese Society of Gastroenterology Surgery.
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