Name:            Fumihiro        Asano

                  (Given Name)   (Family Name)

Position:         Chairman

                                 Department of Pulmonary Medicine

                                 Gifu Prefectural General Medical Center

                                 4-6-1 Noishiki, Gifu-city Gifu 500-8717, Japan

Education:       Graduated from Toyama Medical and Pharmaceutical University,

                                 2630 Sugitani, Toyama, 930-0194, Japan in 1985

License:         Medical License in Japan, in 1985 (M.D.)

                             Senior Fellow of the Japanese Respiratory Society in 1999

                              Senior Fellow of the Japan Society for Respiratory Endoscopy

in 2000

                                 Fellow of the American College of Chest Physicians (FCCP)

                                 in 2007

Ph.D.:           Gifu University School of Medicine

                                 1-1 Yanagido, Gifu 501-1194, Japan in 1994

Membership: 

World Association for Bronchology and Interventional Pulmonology

  (REGENT, 2008-2014, 2016- Presesnt)

Asian Pacific Society of Respirology

 (Head of Assembly: Bronchoscopy and Interventional Techniques

2008-2010, 2020-Present)   

Japan Society for Respiratory Endoscopy

 (REGENT, 2009-2013, 2015-2019)

Japanese Respiratory Society

              Editorial board of Respirology (2012-Presesnt)

Awards:

2003: Award of the Japanese Society for Respiratory Endoscopy (Ikeda award)

              Ultrathin Bronchoscopy and Virtual Bronchoscopic Navigation

Main Bibliography:

Asano F, Shindoh J, Shigemitsu K, et al. Ultrathin bronchoscopic barium marking with virtual bronchoscopic navigation for fluoroscopy-assisted thoracoscopic surgery. Chest 2004; 126:1687-1693

Asano F, Matsuno Y, Shinagawa N, et al. A virtual bronchoscopic navigation system for pulmonary peripheral lesions．Chest 2006;130:559-566

Asano F, Matsuno Y, Tsuzuku A et al., Diagnosis of Peripheral Pulmonary Lesions Using a Bronchoscope Insertion Guidance System Combined with Endobronchial Ultrasonography with a Guide Sheath.

Lung Cancer 2008;60(3):366-73

Ishida T, Asano F, Yamazaki K, Shinagawa N, Oizumi S, Moriya H, Munakata M, Nishimura M. Virtual bronchoscopic navigation combined with endobronchial ultrasound to diagnose small peripheral pulmonary lesions: a randomised trial. Thorax. 2011;66:1072-1077.

Asano F, Shinagawa N, Ishida T, Shindoh J, Anzai M, Tsuzuku A, Oizumi S, Morita S. Virtual bronchoscopic navigation combined with ultrathin bronchoscopy. A randomized clinical trial. Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2013;188:327-33

Asano F, Eberhardt R, Herth FJ. Virtual bronchoscopic navigation for peripheral pulmonary lesions. Respiration. 2014; 88:430-40.

Oki M, Saka H, Ando M, Asano F, Kurimoto N, Morita K, Kitagawa C, Kogure Y, Miyazawa T. Ultrathin Bronchoscopy with Multimodal Devices for Peripheral Pulmonary Lesions. A Randomized Trial. Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2015; 192:468-76.