MOORESVILLE, Ind. —
Tatsuya Sueyoshi, M.D., Ph.D., has joined the Center for Hip & Knee Surgery
and the Joint Replacement Surgeons of Indiana Research Foundation for one-year
research fellowship, beginning in early April.
Sueyoshi, 37, will
work at the Mooresville campus and at the foundation’s biomedical research lab
at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology.
“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 research
here,” said Michael Berend, MD, orthopedic surgeon with the Center for Hip
& Knee Surgery and a member of the Franciscan Physician Network. “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.”
Suevoshi 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.
He plans to return
to Japan following his fellowship training here. He is an orthopedic surgeon
with the Yoshikawa Hospital in Kyoto.
