Kazushi Kishi
Kazushi Kishi is the chair of the Department of radiation oncology, tumor center, at the Wakayama Medical University Hospital, and is an Associate Professor of the Department of Radiology at Wakayama Medical University, Wakayama City, Japan. His academic background includes PhD in radiology. He is a council of the Japanese Society of Therapeutic Radiology (JASTRO), the Japanese Radiological Society (JRS), the Biological Group of JRS, and a member of the American Society of Therapeutic Radiation Oncology and the American Society of Brachytherapy. His current work is focused on interventional brachytherapy that expands the possibility of brachytherapy, i.e., to increase the therapeutic ratio of effect/toxicity, and enthusiastically developing new advantageous strategies, even to difficult conditions such as re-irradiation. He has published more than 250 papers including 62 peer-reviewed English journal articles. His work is currently supported by Grant-in-aid and is now being widely recognized in the field of radiation oncology and cancer medicine.