Dr. Kunihiko Ishitani
President
Higashi Sapporo Hospital
Japan
Biography
Dr. Kunihiko Ishitani is the president of Higashi Sapporo Hospital (a government-approved hospital specializing in palliative cancer care in Japan), a professor of the department of oncology at the Health Science University of Hokkaido, and president of the International Research Society of the Sapporo Conference for Palliative and Supportive Care in Cancer. (http://www.sapporoconference.com/en/) He has been an associate editor of the British Medical Journal (BMJ) Supportive and Palliative Care since 2018. He received the Annie Blount-Storrs Award from Calvary hospital in 1991. Dr. Ishitani contributed to the establishment of the Japanese Society for Palliative Medicine and organized the 1st congress in Sapporo in 1996.
Research Interest
Dr. Kunhiko Ishitani received his MD and PhD from Sapporo Medical College. He went on to study as a research fellow of department of biochemistry at the Albert Stein College of Medicine for 3 years, after which he was an assistant professor of department of hematology/oncology at Sapporo Medical College. In 1983, he founded Higashi Sapporo Hospital.