Institute of Science Tokyo Hospital

Institute of Science Tokyo Hospital, formerly Tokyo Medical and Dental University Hospital, is the teaching hospital of Japan's only comprehensive medical university — where the entire undergraduate program consists of just two faculties: Medicine and Dentistry. In the QS World University Rankings, the university's dentistry program consistently ranks #1 in Japan and in the world's top 10, while the medical school ranks among Japan's top 3. The hospital has 41 clinical departments and 28 central diagnostic and treatment facilities. As a Special Functioning Hospital, it receives approximately 580,000 outpatient visits annually. The hospital's philosophy is to "continuously provide safe, high-quality, and advanced medical care," with every department committed to developing and practicing cutting-edge medicine. Key centers of excellence include: the Department of Orthopedic Surgery, which leads Japan in spine surgery (approximately 300 cases annually — the highest among Japanese university hospitals — with zero cases of severe paralysis from cervical or thoracic surgery using spinal cord monitoring), pioneered the world's first synovium-derived mesenchymal stem cell (SDSC) transplantation for cartilage defects and meniscus injuries, and performs approximately 250 knee arthroscopic surgeries annually; the Department of Hepatobiliary-Pancreatic Surgery, performing approximately 250 procedures annually including 78 liver resections (36 laparoscopic) and 75 pancreatic resections; the Colorectal Surgery Department, performing approximately 380 colorectal cancer surgeries annually using advanced robotic surgery under Japan's leading robotic rectal cancer surgery proctor; and the Head and Neck Surgery Department, a national leader in head and neck cancer treatment emphasizing functional preservation. The hospital also operates Japan's first dedicated Pancreatic Neuroendocrine Tumor clinic and a pioneering center for inflammatory bowel disease.