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Katsuto Shinohara, MD

Biographical Sketch

1975, Yokohama City University, Yokohama City, Japan, Pre-medicine

MD, 1979, Yokohama City University, Yokohama City, Japan, Medicine

Residency, Mitsui Memorial Hospital, Tokyo, Japan, Surgery

Fellowship, 1984, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas

 

 

1979-1982

Surgical Resident, Mitsui Memorial Hospital, Tokyo, Japan

1982-1984

Urology Resident, Kitasato University School of Medicine, Sagamihara, Japan

1984-1988

Urology Fellow, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX

1988-1991

Clinical Instructor, Department of Urology, University of California, San Francisco, CA

1991-1999

Assistant Adjunct Professor, Department of Urology, University of California, San Francisco, CA

1999-2004

Associate Adjunct Professor, Department of Urology, University of California, San Francisco, CA

2004-Present

Adjunct Professor, Department of Urology, University of California, San Francisco, CA

1996-Present

Staff surgeon, Urology Section, Veterans Administration Hospital, San Francisco, CA

 


Katsuto Shinohara, MD is a native of Japan. He attended Yokohama City University School of Medicine and graduated with highest honors. He received three years of general surgery training at Mitsui Memorial Hospital in Tokyo and completed his urology residency at Kitasato University Hospital in Sagamihara, Japan. He came to the United States in 1984 as a urologic oncology fellow at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas. After completing the fellowship in 1988, he joined the faculty in the UCSF Department of Urology.

Shinohara is currently an adjunct professor of urology at UCSF and an attending surgeon at the Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center in San Francisco. He is a member of the American Urological Association, the Japanese Urological Association, and the American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine.