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Children’s Medical Center
The Children’s Medical Center provides care and treatment for pediatric patients in cooperation with the Departments of Pediatrics and Pediatric Surgery as well as other relevant departments/divisions.
Medical services
All relevant Departments, including Pediatrics (and the neonatal unit), Pediatric Surgery, Cardiovascular Surgery, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Neurosurgery, Otolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery, Orthopedic Surgery, Oral-Maxillofacial Surgery, Ophthalmology, Dermatology, and Child Psychiatry, cooperate to provide care and treatment for pediatric patients. There is also an in-hospital school so assure continuity of education for our young patients. In addition, children’s nurses and a child care staff are stationed in the pediatric ward to provide high-quality care to children.
Diagnosis and treatment policy
With an emphasis on advocacy for children, we provide comprehensive treatment, both mental and physical, based on the latest findings and using well established techniques.
Specialties
We promote highly advanced medical care and provide high quality medical care in collaboration with specialists in various fields and medical staff. As a pediatric medical center, we have general beds, neonatal beds, and pediatric intensive care beds, enabling us to treat all pediatric diseases. We are also actively engaged in transition support in cooperation with related departments within the hospital.
Target diseases
Pediatric hematologic disorders, malignant tumors (acute leukemia, malignant lymphoma, aplastic anemia, neuroblastoma, osteosarcoma, etc.), various congenital heart diseases (hypoplastic left heart syndrome, etc.), Kawasaki disease, neurological disorders (epilepsy, acute encephalopathy, deformity, etc.), low birth weight infants, renal disease (chronic nephritis, nephrotic syndrome, urinary tract infection, renal tubular dysfunction, etc.), growth disorder, diabetes, airway malacia, school absenteeism, pediatric surgical disease (body surface disease such as inguinal hernia, neonatal surgical disease, thoracic surgical disease, hepatobiliary disease, gastrointestinal disease, etc.) etc.

Motohiro Kato
Departments/Divisions
Pediatrics, Children's Nedical Center
Titles
M.D., Ph.D.
Expertise/Specialties
Pediatric hematolog, Pediatric oncology, Hematopoietic cell transplantation, Genomic medicine
Research Interests
Cancer genomics
Languages
Japanese, English
