Koji Tomiyama, M.D., Ph.D.

Contact Information

Phone Numbers

Appointment: (585) 275-5875

Fax: (585) 271-7929

A member of the University of Rochester Medical Faculty Group

An Accountable Health Partner

Accepting New Patients

Locations

Strong Memorial Hospital Transplant
601 Elmwood Ave, AC-2
Rochester, NY 14642-0001

Transplant: (585) 275-5875

Faculty Appointments

Assistant Professor - Department of Surgery , Transplant (SMD)

Patient Care Settings

Cancer, Surgery

Biography

Professional Background

Dr. Tomiyama completed his residency in surgery at Himeji St. Mary's Hospital and a Fellowship in Liver and Kidney transplant surgery at Baylor Regional Transplant Institute. He also completed a Research Fellowship at Thomas E. Starzl Transplantation Institute, University of Pittsburgh in the Department of Surgery and an HPB fellowship at University of Toronto. Dr. Tomiyama was deeply involved in living donor liver transplant and served as assistant professor at Kyoto University.

Dr. Tomiyama's clinical interests include complex HPB cases including in situ/ex vivo liver cold preservation, 3D simulation of liver surgery, donation after cardiac death (DCD) and live donor liver transplant. His basic research interests are primarily focused on liver regeneration and ischemia reperfusion injury. Throughout his career, he has published more than 30 peer reviewed articles as first and co- author and two book chapters on the subjects of live donor liver transplant techniques and cholangiocarcinoma. He has more than 15 presentations at International congress and one invited lecture.

Credentials

Education

2000
MD | Okayama University Medical School

Post-doctoral Training & Residency

07/01/2014 - 07/31/2016
Fellowship in Surgical Oncology at Toronto General Hospitals-University of Toronto

07/01/2008 - 06/30/2010
Fellowship in Transplant Surgery at Baylor University Medical Center

08/01/2005 - 08/31/2007
Research in Surgery at University of Pittsburgh

06/01/2003 - 03/31/2007
Research in at Okayama University Medical School

09/01/2002 - 05/31/2003
Residency in Surgery at Okayama University Hospital

09/01/2000 - 08/31/2002
Residency in Surgery at Himeji St. Mary's Hospital

04/01/2000 - 08/31/2000
Internship in Surgery at Okayama University Hospital

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Awards

Paddy Lewis Award for excellence in teaching in general surgery 2016
Location: University of Toronto

Publications

Journal Articles

10/2019
Tschuor C, Ferrarese A, Kuemmerli C, Dutkowski P, Burra P, Clavien PA, . "Allocation of liver grafts worldwide - Is there a best system?" Journal of hepatology.. 2019 Oct 0; 71(4):707-718. Epub 2019 Jun 12.

1/7/2019
Goldaracena N, Gorgen A, Doyle A, Hansen BE, Tomiyama K, Zhang W, Ghanekar A, Lilly L, Cattral M, Galvin Z, Selzner M, Bhat M, Selzner N, McGilvray I, Greig PD, Grant DR, Sapisochin G. "Live Donor Liver Transplantation for Patients with Hepatocellular Carcinoma Offers Increased Survival vs. Deceased Donation." Journal of hepatology.. 2019 Jan 7; Epub 2019 Jan 07.

11/21/2018
Loveday BPT, Zilbert N, Serrano PE, Tomiyama K, Tremblay A, Fox AM, Segedi M, O'Malley M, Borgida A, Bianco T, Creighton S, Dodd A, Fraser A, Moore M, Kim J, Cleary S, Moulton CA, Greig P, Wei AC, Gallinger S, Dhani N, McGilvray ID. "Neoadjuvant therapy and major arterial resection for potentially reconstructable arterial involvement by stage 3 adenocarcinoma of the pancreas." HPB : the official journal of the International Hepato Pancreato Biliary Association.. 2018 Nov 21; Epub 2018 Nov 21.

Books & Chapters

2016
Chapter Title: Cholangiocarcinoma
Book Title: Surgical Oncology Manual
Author List: Tomiyama K; Moulton CA
Published By: Springer International Publishing 2016

2014
Chapter Title: Open right hepatic lobectomy for living donor liver transplantation
Book Title: ACS Multimedia Atlas of Surgery: Liver Volume
Author List: Takaori K; Tomiyama K; Uemoto S
Published By: American College of Surgeons 2014

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