MOORESVILLE, Ind. – Tatsuya
Sueyoshi, MD, PhD, has joined the Center for Hip & Knee Surgery and the
Joint Replacement Surgeons of Indiana Research Foundation for a one-year research fellowship, beginning in
early April.
He will work at the
Mooresville, Ind., campus and at the foundation’s biomedical research lab at
Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology in Terre Haute.
“We at the JRSI Research
Foundation in Mooresville and the Orthopaedic Biomedical Engineering Laboratory
at Rose-Hulman in Terre Haute are looking forward to Dr. Sueyoshi's arrival,”
said Michael Berend, MD, orthopedic surgeon with the Center for Hip & Knee
Surgery. “During his time with us, Dr. Sueyoshi will share his research
expertise by collaborating with our team of surgeons and researchers in the
investigation and improvement of total joint replacement surgery.”
Sueyoshi will split his
time in support of clinical database research at the Center for Hip & Knee
Surgery and biomechanical research collaborations with Rose-Hulman.
“This international
exchange of clinical experience and scientific interests will bolster the
research efforts of the JRSI Research Foundation in addition to providing
training opportunities for Dr. Sueyoshi to take back to Japan and incorporate
into the care of his own patients in back home,” Berend
said.
This is Sueyoshi’s
second visit to the United States but his first time to live abroad. He said he
is looking forward to living in Indiana, though he’s nervous about the “severe
winter cold in the Midwest. I was brought up in Okinawa, the most southern
island of Japan.”
He received his medical
degree and an advanced doctorate degree in orthopedic surgery from Kyoto
University. He is board-certified by the Japanese Orthopedic Association and a
member of the Japanese Orthopedic Association and the Japanese Society of
Cartilage Metabolism.
Sueyoshi plans to return
to Japan following his fellowship training here. He is an orthopedic surgeon
with the Yoshikawa Hospital in Kyoto.
