Yoshiki Sawa MD

Dr. Yoshiki Sawa is a Professor of Cardiovascular Surgery at the Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine. Dr. Yoshiki Sawa was born in 1955. In 1980, he graduated from the Osaka University Faculty of Medicine and entered the First Department of Surgery at Osaka University. In 1989, as a Humboldt Foundation Fellowship student, became an exchange student studying in the cardiac surgery and cardiac physiology departments of the Max-Planck Institute in Germany. After his return to Japan, he became an Assistant to the First Department of Surgery at the Osaka University Faculty of Medicine, a senior member of the medical staff, and a lecturer. Then in 2002, he became an Associate Professor in the Department of Organ Regulation Medicine (First Department of Surgery) at the Osaka University Faculty of Medicine. He was also appointed Assistant Director of the University Hospital’s Medical Center for Translational Research. In 2004, he was appointed Assistant Chief of Cardiovascular Surgery at the Osaka University Hospital. In 2006, Dr. Sawa was appointed both Professor of Cardiovascular and Respiratory Surgery, at Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, and Director of Osaka University Hospital Medical Center for Translational Research.