67. A Case of Living-Donor Segmental Lung Transplantation and Concomitant Nuss Procedure in a Pediatric Patient with Pectus Excavatum

I have practiced General Thoracic Surgery at the Cleveland Clinic for the past 15 years.  I am an AssociateProfessor of Surgery at the Lerner College of Medicine, Chief Quality Officer for Thoracic Surgery, lead the Enterprise VTE & Anticoagulation Committee and am the Chief of the Center for Chest Wall Disease at the Cleveland Clinic.  My clinical interests include mininimally invasive pulmonary surgery, mediastinal pathology, surgical quality, surgical infection and both malignant and benign chest wall disease.  I formerly served as faculty at the University of Rochester for five years following completion of my training at the University of Pennsylvania (CT fellowship) and University of Virginia (General Surgery).  

Hiroshi Date, MD, serves as the Chairman and Professor in the Department of Thoracic Surgery at Kyoto University, Japan. After graduating from Okayama University School of Medicine in 1984, he underwent training under Drs. Joel D. Cooper and G. Alexander Patterson at Washington University, both as a research fellow from 1989 to 1991 and a clinical lung transplant fellow from 1994 to 1995. He also spent a year, from 1993 to 1994, as a general thoracic fellow at The Cleveland Clinic Foundation.

In 1998, Dr. Date achieved a significant milestone by successfully performing the first living-donor lobar lung transplantation in Japan. Since then, he has conducted approximately 400 lung transplants, resulting in a 70% survival rate at the 10-year mark. Dr. Date has performed more than 4,000 thoracotomies and has authored more than 600 peer-reviewed publications in various fields of general thoracic surgery including thoracic malignancy and lung transplantation.