speaker
Sunao Nakamura
MD, PhD, FACC, FAHA, FESC
Medicine
Cardiology, Interventional Cardiology
Chiba, Japan
Dr Sunao Nakamura is one of the most experienced interventional cardiologists in Japan. He has performed more than 25,000 cases of PCI and 10,000 cases of chronic total occlusion (CTO) which is the biggest number in the world. He has a very unique background as a researcher; studying cellular electro-physiology for 6 years and clinical sciences for 4 years in his younger days. After that he suddenly changed his main field of cardiology; Interventional cardiology concerning Prof. Shigeru Saito; who was active in a leadership position in Asia region, Dr. Nakamura worked disseminating PCI in Asia from his age early 30s and lived half a year in foreign countries.