Research Assistant Professor of Neurological Surgery
Phone: (412) 864-3428
e-mail: kanoh@upmc.edu

Also see Media Appearances below.

Specialized Areas of Interest:

Stereotactic radiosurgery for benign and malignant brain tumors; acoustic neuroma; meningiomas; chordomas; brain metastases; gliomas, and for vasucular disease including arteriovenous malformation; cavernous malformation, and for pain and functional disorders including trigeminal neuralgia; cluster headache; clinical statistics; survival analysis; gene therapy for brain tumors; radioprotective agent.

Biography

Hideyuki Kano, MD, PhD, joined the faculty in the Department of Neurological Surgery Center for Image-Guided Neurosurgery in 2008 as a visiting research assistant professor and is now a research assistant professor in the department.

Dr. Kano received his medical training from the Shiga University of Medical Science in Otsu, Japan, earning his medical degree in 1997. He subsequently received his residency training at the Kyoto University School of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan and Osaka Saiseikai Izuo Hospital, Osaka, Japan in 2000. From 2000 to 2004, he received his residency training and then fellowship program of stereotactic radiosurgery and received a certificate of board of neurological surgery in Japan in 2004. In 2006, Dr. Kano received his PhD from the Graduate School of Medicine Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan. From 2004 to 2007, Dr. Kano worked as a neurosurgeon-in-chief at Kishiwada City Hospital in Japan. He completed his fellowship program of Image-Guided Neurosurgery at the University of Pittsburgh in 2008.

Dr. Kano is currently working on the project of clinical study about stereotactic radiosurgery for benign and malignant brain tumors, arteriovenous malformation and functional disease.

Dr. Kano's publications can be reviewed through the National Library of Medicine's publication database.

Board Certifications

Japanese Board of Neurological Surgery

Professional Organization Membership

Congress of Neurological Surgeons
AANS/CNS Joint Section on Tumors
International Stereotactic Radiosurgery Society, active member
Japanese Society of Neurosurgery
Japanese Society of Stereotactic Radiosurgery
The Japan Society of Neuro-Oncology

Editorial Service

• Ad Hoc Reviewer:

Expert Review of Anticancer Therapy
Expert Review of Medical Devices
Journal of Neurosurgery
Journal of Pediatric Neuroradiology
Journal of Pregnancy
Journal of Zhejiang University SCIENCE B - Biomedicine & Biotechnology

Media Appearances

Repeat Gamma Knife Radiosurgery Fixes Most Brain AVMs
April 20, 2011
Medscape Today News