General Description of the Department and the Course

I am Professor Kazuhiko Hoshi, who is leading the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Yamanashi University School of Medicine Hospital. In our department, each member of the staff is concerned with providing satisfactory medical services to the people visiting the hospital. For that purpose, we try to functionally combine cutting-edge medical services which are naturally expected in a university hospital and community-oriented medical services as the leading hospital in Yamanashi Prefecture.
To be specific, we provide the services with specialists night and day, in the areas of high-risk pregnancy, childbirth management, state of the art reproductive medicine, multidisciplinary treatment and management of gynecologic cancers, and menopause and geriatric gynecology in addition to general Obstetrics and Gynecology. If you wish to consult with us about anything, please do not hesitate to talk to the doctors, nurses, and midwives. Since this is a University Hospital, education and training of future doctors, nurses, and midwives are also our important mission. This is why you might find our system is slightly intimidating and different from general hospitals. If you can understand this situation and cooperate with us, it would be greatly appreciated.

The Members of the Faculty (Area of Research)

General Description of the Research Activities (themes)

Obstetrics and gynecology can be generally categorized into the three specialized areas of "Gynecological Oncology", "Perinatology" and "Reproductive Mmedicine and Endocrinology". In the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Graduate School of Advanced Studies in Medicine and Engineering, Yamanashi University, there are three research groups specializing above three areas, plus another research group mainly investigating "Molecular Biology". The main research theme for the each group is described below.

• Research Group for "Gynecological Oncology"
  Gynecologic cytology, diagnostic imaging, chemical therapy against gynecologic malignant tumors, gene therapy
• Research Group for "Perinatology"
  Fetal diagnosis, medical electronics, diagnostic imaging, complication of pregnancy
• Research Group for "Reproductive Medicine and Endocrinology"
  Assisted reproductive technology, reproductive biology, mechanism of gamete maturation, fertilization and early development
• Research Group for "Molecular Biology"
  Molecular cytological approach to the development of gynecologic tumors, mechanism of gamete maturation, fertilization and early development

General Description of the Medical Practice