Sat. Oct 28, 2023 10:30 AM - 11:20 AM
Room 2: Subaru EAST (Hotel Nikko Tsukuba Annex Bldg.1F)
Chair: Toshiyuki Kamoto (University of Miyazaki), Cheryn Song (University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Asan Medical Center)
[Toshiyuki Kamoto's Biography]
Toshiyuki Kamoto, M.D., Ph.D. Date of Birth: 1st. Oct. 1961 Dr. Toshiyuki Kamoto graduated from Kyoto University in 1987. From 1995 to 1997, he was an Assistant Professor of the Department of Pathology and Biology of Diseases, Graduate School of Medicine Kyoto University. From 1997 to 2009 he was an Assistant and an Associate Professor of the Department of Urology, Kyoto University. Since 2009, he has been a Professor and Chairman of the Department of Urology, University of Miyazaki. He serves as a Vice Director of University of Miyazaki Hospital since 2011.
He is an active member of the Japanese Urological Association (JUA), Japanese Society of Clinical Oncology (JSCO), Japanese Society of Medical Oncology (JSMO), Japanese society of Endourology and Robotics (JSER), AUA, EAU, and SIU. His specialty is urology, especially urological malignancy, endoscopic and laparoscopic surgery.
[Cheryn Song's Biography]
I graduated from Yonsei University in 1999, and after obtaining my medical license, I began my training at Asan Medical Center. Completing my urology residency in 2004, I continued for fellowship training at the same hospital until 2007 in the field of urologic oncology while at the same time obtaining a PhD degree at the University of Ulsan with a thesis on how TGF-b downregulated IL-2-induced activation of signal transduction in human renal cell carcinoma. Since being appointed as clinical instructor in 2007, I have been working at Asan Medical Center specializing in laparoscopic and robotic surgeries for urologic cancers. Besides the urologic training and education, I completed studies at the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health in 2012 with a degree in master’s in public health.
Outside my institution, I had several fellowship opportunities. In 2006, I was a visiting fellow at Nagoya University (Professor Ono and Professor Hattori) where I was trained in the principles of urologic laparoscopy. In 2012, I was a clinical research fellow in the kidney cancer research team at the Sidney Kimmel Prostate and Urologic Cancer Center in Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, NY, USA (Dr. Coleman and Dr. Russo). Through these fellowships, I was able to focus my clinical and research scopes more into renal cancer. My current focus on research includes epidemiologic and treatment outcomes studies in localized as well as metastatic renal cell carcinoma, and renal functional changes following nephron-sparing surgeries. I am also deeply involved in identification and management of hereditary renal cancer syndromes, running a special clinic of multidisciplinary team with medical geneticist, neurosurgeon, pancreatic surgeon, ophthalmologist, endocrine surgeon, and a radiologist specialist. In the laboratory, I have been working on molecular signaling and markers of progression in kidney cancer. Partnering with computer specialists, I have been involved in developing navigation software for robotic surgery and artificial intelligence models to predict oncological as well as functional outcomes following nephron-sparing surgery.
Professional society I am most actively engaged in is the Korean Urological Oncology Society, where I have served on the educational committee, Blue Ribbon Campaign committee, and the international relations committee. I have co-founded the kidney cancer research committee which became the Korean Renal Cancer Study Group, actively collaborating multi-institutional research and hosting biannual kidney cancer-focused conferences. Currently, I am the vice president of international relations and the organizing committee for the East Asia Urological Oncology Society.
