Masatoshi Kudo studied Medicine at Kyoto University and graduated in 1978. Following this, he completed clinical fellowships at the University of California Davis Medical Center in USA and at Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine, where he received his PhD degree in Medical Science in 1987. Professor Kudo has been Professor and Chairman at the Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Kindai University Faculty of Medicine since 1999 and is an Executive Board Member of Kindai University.
Professor Kudo has published 1073 International scientific peer-reviewed papers in well-regarded journals (total IF = 7652.241, citations = 39,110, H-Index = 90, international collaboration articles = 242). He serves as an Executive Council Board Member for the Liver Cancer Study Group of Japan (LCSGJ), as Chairman of the Nationwide Survey Committee of the LCSGJ, and as a representative of the LCSGJ Head Office. Professor Kudo is also a past President of the Japan Society of Ultrasonics in Medicine (JSUM) (2014–2020), past President of the Asia Pacific Primary Liver Cancer Association (APPLE) (2015–2017), past President of WFUMB (2011–2013), and past President of AFSUMB (2016–2018). He also serves as an editor-in-chief of LIVER CANCER (Karger) (IF = 11.740). He was consecutively awarded the “Highly Cited Researchers” award in 2019, 2020, and 2021 by Clarivate Analytics in the field of “Clinical Medicine”.
