Go Wakabayashi, MD, PhD, FACS

Go Wakabayashi, MD, PhD, FACS

Director, Center for Advanced Treatment of HBP Diseases, Deputy Director, Ageo Central General Hospital, Saitama, Japan

Go Wakabayashi, earned his degrees from Keio University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan. He trained at the Department of Surgery at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School. He was appointed Professor and Chairman of the Department of Surgery at Iwate Medical University School of Medicine in 2005. In April 2015, he was recruited as Director of the Center for Advanced Treatment of HPB Diseases, Chief of Surgical Services, and Deputy Director at Ageo Central General Hospital, a flagship hospital among 6,000 beds hospital complex near Tokyo. His expertise includes Hepato-Pancreatic Biliary Surgery, liver transplantation, and laparoscopic surgery. He performed the first robotic surgery in Asia in March 2000 and the first robotic hepatectomy worldwide in July 2001. He was the President of the International Laparoscopic Liver Society from 2019 to 2021 and now has become the Immediate Past President.