ABOUT

Department of Gastroenterology, Division of Gastroenterology is responsible for a wide variety of target organs, including the gastrointestinal tract, liver, gallbladder and pancreas. We treat about 45,000 patients per year. We have 3 laboratories which specialize in the liver, the biliopancreatic system, and the gastrointestinal tract respectively. Liaising among these 3 laboratories, we aim to make a comprehensive diagnosis and treatment, without each laboratory remaining isolated in its own specialized area. To treat gastrointestinal disease we consider it important to cooperate closely with doctors in other divisions, and we collaborate with the Department of Transplantation Surgery, the Department of Gastroenterological Surgery, the Division of Clinical Care, the Division of Radiology and so on and try to provide highly qualified medical treatment. In our many research activities, including clinical trials, clinical research and basic research, we collaborate with many medical facilities nationwide as well as with other facilities in Hiroshima Prefecture. We are accredited as an educational facility for the Medical Specialties System and train certified doctors and attending doctors of societies including the Japanese Society of Internal Medicine, Japanese Society of Gastroenterology, Japan Society of Hepatology, Japan Gastroenterological Endoscopy Society, The Japanese Society of Gastroenterological Mass Survey, Japan Society of Ultrasonics in Medicine, Japan Geriatrics Society, Japan Society of Coloproctology, and the Japanese Gastroenterological Association.

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