Biography

Tetsuro Takehara graduated from Osaka University School of Medicine with his M.D. degree and received his Ph.D. degree from Osaka University in 1993. He studied at the Gastrointestinal Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital, USA, as a postdoctoral fellow for three years from 1998, became Associate Professor of Molecular Therapeutics at Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine in 2001, and then Associate Professor of Gastroenterology and Hepatology. In 2011, he became Professor of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine; from 2021, he served as Director of Osaka University Hospital for two years. He is currently Director General, Kansai Rosai Hospital, Japan.

He has conducted outstanding basic and clinical research in the fields of hepatitis, cirrhosis and liver cancer, publishing more than 500 papers in high-impact international journals. In 2017, he received the Oda Award, the highest award of the Japan Society of Hepatology (JSH). He served as President of the Annual Meeting of JSH in 2020, of the Japanese Society of Gastroenterology (JSGE) in 2021 and of the Japanese Society of Internal Medicine in 2025.,

From 2018, he is the current Director General, JSH.