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photo:Prof. KATO Jun
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Prof. KATO Jun

Welcome to our website of the Department of Gastroenterology of Chiba University Hospital. We handle diseases of liver, bile duct, pancreas, and digestive system in daily clinical practice. We have many gastroenterological specialists working in this department, including hepatologists, gastrointestinal endoscopists, and oncologists. We set up out-patient clinics every workday, and at the in-patient clinic more than 40 gastroenterologists work enthusiastically to provide treatments to the patients. We cooperate with surgeons, oncologists, radiologists to take better care of the patients.

Diseases We Treat and Specialize in

Liver diseases:
acute hepatitis, acute liver failure, chronic hepatitis C, chronic hepatitis B, non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH), autoimmune hepatitis (AIH), cirrhosis of the liver, hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), primary biliary cholangitis/cirrhosis (PBC), idiopathic portal hypertension (IPH), Budd-Chiari syndrome, hemochromatosis, Wilson's disease

Biliary diseases:
common bile duct stones, biliary cancer, gall bladder cancer, primary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC)

Pancreatic diseases:
pancreatic cancer, intraductal papillary mucinous neoplasm (IPMN), chronic pancreatitis, autoimmune pancreatitis, endocrine tumors

Gastrointestinal diseases:
gastroesophageal varices, esophagitis, eosinophilic gastritis, gastric cancer, gastric ulcers, duodenal cancer, colon cancer, ulcerative colitis, Crohn's disease, Behçet's disease

Staff

Professor KATO Jun
Associate Professor MATSUMURA Tomoaki
OGASAWARA Sadahisa
Lecturer OHNO Izumi [Department of Medical Oncology]
OHYAMA Hiroshi
OKIMOTO Kenichiro
KANOGAWA Naoya
TAIDA Takashi
Assistant Professor NAKAMOTO Shingo
NAKAMURA Masato
INOUE Masanori
OHTA Yuki
KOROKI Keisuke
KANEKO Tatsuysa [Medical Education Center]
Staff OKITSU Koichiro [Department of Medical Oncology]
SAITO Keiko
KAN Motoyasu
ISHIKAWA Tsubasa
UNOZAWA Hidemi
OUCHI Mayu
HORIO Ryosuke
YUMITA Sae
IWASAKI Miyuki [Endoscopy Center]
SEKINE Yu
FUJIMOTO Kentaro
AKATSUKA Teppei [Department of Medical Oncology]
IZAI Ryo
OZEKI Yusuke [Endoscopy Center]
SHU Nobuaki [Endoscopy Center]
TSUCHIYA Takahiro
MIWA Chihiro
YONEMOTO Takuya [Department of Medical Oncology]
WATABE Kazuki
ITO Toshiyuki [Endoscopy Center]
SHIMIZU Kento

Contact

TEL: +81-43-226-2083