Curriculum Vitae: HISAO ASAMURA, M.D.

[PRESENT APPOINTMENT] Chief, Division of Thoracic Surgery, National Cancer

Center Hospital (NCCH), 1-1, Tsukiji 5-chome, Chuo-ku, Tokyo 104-0045, JAPAN

[DATE & PLACE OF BIRTH] October 5, 1957, Osaka, Japan [SCHOOL AND

DEGREE] MD from Keio University School of Medicine (1983), Doctor of Medical

Science from Keio University (1995) [BOARD CERTIFICATION] Japanese Association

for Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery (1990), Japan Surgical Society (1990)

[HOSPITAL APPOINTMENT] Attending surgeon at NCCH (1992), Chief of Thoracic

Surgery at NCCH (2002), [ACADEMIC VISITING APPOINTMENTS] Visiting Professor

(Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Seoul National University,

Korea), Visiting Professor (Department of Surgery, Kyorin University, Tokyo)

[IMPORTANT INTERNATIONAL ACTIVITY] Committee member of UICC (Union

International contre le Cancer) TNM Prognostic Factors Core Group, Geneva (2007)

[EDITORIAL BOARDS] Associate Editor: Journal of Thoracic Oncology, Japanese

Journal of Clinical Oncology, Asian Journal of Clinical Oncology, Editorial Board

Member, Japanese Journal of Thoracic and Cardio-vascular Surgery [ACTIVITIES in

IASLC] 1.Associate editor of J Thorac Oncol, 2. Staging committee member, 3.

Education committee member [IMPORTANT ARTICLES] Asamura H. Minimally

invasive approach to early, peripheral adenocarcinoma with ground-glass opacity

appearance. Ann Thorac Surg 2008;85:S701-4. Asamura H, et al. Japanese Joint

Committee of Lung Cancer Registry. A Japanese Lung Cancer Registry study:

prognosis of 13,010 resected lung cancers. J Thorac Oncol 2008;3:46-52. Asamura

H, et al. How should the TNM staging system for lung cancer be revised? A simulation

based on the Japanese Lung Cancer Registry populations. J Thorac Cardiovasc

Surg 2006;132;316-9. Asamura H , et al. Neuroendocrine neoplasms of the lung: A

prognostic spectrum. J Clin Oncol 2006;24:70-6.