Doctor Tsunenori Saito

Tsunenori Saito, MD, PhD, FAHA, FACP. was born in Tokyo, 1980. After received his MD at the Nippon Medical School in 2006, did his residency in Internal Medicine at Toranomon Hospital. He completed Senior Residency program of Nippon Medical School for cardiology in 2010. In 2011, he was elected to a Fellow of the American Heart Association, the youngest in history. Finished a doctorate at Nippon Medical School graduating school in 2012, Dr. Saito became an assistant professor of Department of Internal Medicine and Cardiology, Nippon Medical School Tama Nagayama Hospital in 2013. He began his research in the relationship between ultrastructural features including autophagy of dilated cardiomyopathy and clinical findings such as prognosis. He wrote the section of the research guideline of autophagy on the use of clinical samples. Dr. Saito has been studying in the laboratory of Professor Gottlieb of Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Smidt Heart Institute since 2019.