MD, PhD, Assistant professor of Gastroenterological Surgery, Nagoya University Hospital and Department of Surgical Oncology, Nagoya Graduate School of Medicine, Japan
Dr. Atsushi Ogura is a Consultant Colorectal Surgeon and Clinical Assistant Professor in the Department of Surgical Oncology at Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine in Nagoya, Japan. He moved to Tokyo in 2013 to serve as a Surgical Fellow at the Cancer Institute Hospital, where he specialized in Minimally Invasive Surgery from 2013 to 2017. In 2018, he studied abroad in the Netherlands and co-authored a paper on lateral lymph node involvement in rectal cancer, published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology and JAMA Surgery, in collaboration with Dr. Tsuyoshi Konishi and Dr. Miranda Kusters.
Dr. Ogura has been a Certified Surgeon of the Japanese Society of Endoscopic Surgery (#22-GS-157) since 2022 and became a Board Certified Councilor of the JSES in 2023. Additionally, he is a Board Certified Trainer of the Japanese Society of Gastroenterological Surgery (#9191) since 2023. He is also a member of the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Clinical Oncology.
His main professional and scientific interests include laparoscopic and robotic extended surgery using transanal or perineal approaches for patients with locally advanced or locally recurrent rectal cancer. He is also focused on strategies for managing locally advanced rectal cancer, including total neoadjuvant therapy and non-operative management.
Selected publications from PubMed
Enrichment of Lysobacter in a long-term organically managed agricultural field with low soilborne disease incidence.
Kamba S, Kuroki M, Takemura I, Tabata H, Minei R, Shimamoto M, Ogura A, Hasegawa M, Ishikawa M
J Biosci Bioeng. 2026 Oct;142(4):368-377 doi: 10.1016/j.jbiosc.2026.07.002.
Robotic Transperineal Lateral Lymph Node Dissection for Rectal Cancer Through a Single-Port System: the World's First Clinical Experience.
Ogura A, Murata Y, Hattori N, Sato Y, Umeda S, Tanaka C, Ebata T, Kanda M
Dis Colon Rectum. 2026 Sep 3 doi: 10.1097/DCR.0000000000004356.
Inhibitory effect of the water-soluble retinoid X receptor partial agonist CAt-PMN on allergic conjunctivitis-like responses in mice.
Ogura A, Takamura Y, Takimoto Y, Hino Y, Kakuta H, Alam J, Pflugfelder SC, Sugimoto Y
Exp Eye Res. 2026 Sep;270:111131 doi: 10.1016/j.exer.2026.111131.
Prognostic Impact of Circumferential Resection Margin in Minimally Invasive Surgery for Locally Advanced Rectal Cancer: A Multicenter Prospective Study.
Hamabe A, Ito M, Toda S, Suwa Y, Hasegawa S, Kotake M, Inomata M, Ueda K, Ogura A, Sugimoto K, Kimura K, Otsuka K, Noguchi T, Hida K, Hirano Y, Kawai K, Yamagishi S, Naitoh T, Takemasa I, Japan Society of Laparoscopic Colorectal Surgery
Ann Gastroenterol Surg. 2026 Aug 27 doi: 10.1002/ags3.70268.
Effect of Surface Modification of Cu Electrodes by Ag Nanoparticle Spray Coating on the Products and Electrolytic Potential of Electrochemical CO(2) Reduction.
Koike K, Murakami T, Inoue K, Ogawa T, Fujii K, Wada S, Ogura A
Molecules. 2026 Aug 12;31(16) doi: 10.3390/molecules31162803.
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