Dr. Terunaga Inage is a thoracic and lung transplant surgeon in the Division of General Thoracic Surgery at Chiba University, Japan. His clinical and research interests include minimally invasive diagnosis and treatment of thoracic malignancies, robotic and video-assisted thoracic surgery (VATS), lung transplantation, and interventional pulmonology.
He graduated from Tokai University School of Medicine in 2009 and received his Ph.D. from Chiba University Graduate School of Medicine in 2017. He completed his residency and thoracic surgery training at Chiba University Hospital, followed by a lung transplantation fellowship at Toronto General Hospital in Canada.
Since 2020, he has worked in the Division of General Thoracic Surgery at Chiba University, where he serves as an operating surgeon and team leader in lung transplantation while also performing minimally invasive thoracic surgery.
His current research focuses on biomarker testing using biopsy specimens, endobronchial ultrasound (EBUS) imaging, and the development of devices for interventional pulmonology. He has also been involved in the development of novel EBUS technologies, including the prototype platform that led to the BF-UCP190F.