DOKKYO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY

     Our diagnostic pathology department started in 1984 when Dokkyo Medical University Saitama Medical Center, formerly called Dokkyo Medical University Koshigaya Hospital, was established, with three department heads (Yoshiomi Mori, Yoshihiko Ueda, and Shinichi Ban) until now. Our primary mission is a contribution to the clinical practice of the hospital through pathological diagnosis, including histopathology, cytopathology, intraoperative consultation, and autopsy. Recently, further crucial roles of the diagnostic pathology department have been required in advanced medical treatment, such as companion diagnosis for molecular target agents, transplantation, and cancer genomic medicine. Besides, the purpose of autopsy seems to shift to the evaluation of clinical practice rather than academic interest. In any situations, we believe that mutual communication between pathologists and clinicians is mandatory and becomes increasingly important to improve the practice. Our daily pathological practice is also the field of our research activities as well as the field of education of undergraduate students and clinical trainees.

1. Clinical Practice

• Gross pathology and pathological specimen handling
• Histopathological diagnosis
• Cytopathological diagnosis
• Intraoperative consultation
• Immunohistochemistry and in situ hybridization
• Electron microscopy
• Preparation for companion diagnosis, cancer genomic medicine, and clinical trials
• Participating in expert panels in cancer genomic medicine
• Participating in clinical conferences and cancer boards with stuffs of various clinical departments
• Autopsy

 2.Education

School of Medicine:

Saitama Prefectural University Graduate Course of Health and Social Services, Certified Nurse Specialist in Cancer Nursing:

Clinical Trainees:

• One week course of analyzing an autopsy case with a mini-CPC presentation for all first stage clinical trainees during their second year
• One month training of pathological practice for the first stage clinical trainees with request during their second year
• The clinicopathological conference (CPC) on autopsy cases, held three times a year as an open forum to hospital staffs
• The training program specialized in pathology for the second stage clinical trainees

Histopathological diagnosis of gastrointestinal neoplastic and nonneoplastic lesions including iatrogenic changes
Gastrin receptor expression status in the gastric oxyntic gland mucosa and fundic gland polyps
Histopathological diagnosis of renal glomerular diseases and related diseases
Renal transplantation pathology
Development of deep-learning based computer diagnostic algorithm for detecting lymph node metastasis of gastric cancer in hematoxylin and eosin-stained tissue sections
Strategy for quality control and improvement of cytopathological diagnosis

Pancreatobiliary cytopathology

The Japanese Society of Pathology
Japanese Division of International Academy of Pathology
The Japanese Society of Clinical Cytology
The Japanese Society of Gastroenterology
Japanese Gastric Cancer Association
Japan Pancreas Society
The Japanese Society of Gastroenterological Surgery
Japanese Society of Nephrology
Japanese Renal Pathology Society

Professor and Chairman: Shinichi Ban, MD, PhD
Specially-appointed Professor (former Professor and Chairman): Yoshihiko Ueda, MD, PhD
Senior Assistant Professor: Akiko Fujii, MD, PhD
Senior Assistant Professor: Taiki Sato, MD, PhD
Senior Assistant Professor: Jun Matsushima, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor: Yoko Sato, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor: Manayu Shiina, MD
Assistant Professor: Keiko Akashi, MD, PhD
Clinical Laboratory Technician (Cytoscreener), Head: Yasuki Yamazaki
Clinical Laboratory Technician (Cytoscreener), Deputy Head: Takuya Okamura
Clinical Laboratory Technician (Cytoscreener), Chief: Yukiko Namiki
 
    Additional faculties: one part-time pathologists, four part-time instructors (five pathologists and one researcher), eight clinical laboratory technicians including four cytoscreeners, one clerk, and two secretaries

     Our staff does not directly touch the management of patients. However, the pathological diagnosis of specimens obtained from various sites of a patient, submitted from plural clinical departments separately, and submitted repeatedly, serves essential and integrated information about diseases (final diagnosis, an indication of treatment, prognostic factors, etc.) and guides the management of patients. Here, the pathological practice is bidirectional activities between pathologists and clinicians. Actually, we usually contact clinicians and discuss cases with them as needed, and routinely have conferences with clinical departments to further develop mutual understanding and consensus. Post-mortem examination contributes to the final evaluation of the clinical practice of the hospital as well as the pathological practice of ourselves. Our department, we believe, supports the clinical practice of the hospital comprehensively.

Department of Pathology
Dokkyo Medical University Saitama Medical Center
2-1-50 Minami-Koshigaya, Koshigaya, Saitama 343-8555, Japan
Mail: shinba@dokkyomed.ac.jp
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