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Dr Takano A M

Dr Takano A M

​Physician & Surgeon's Degree, (Mayor De San Marcos) AM.BD. Anatomical & Clinical Pathology, AM.BD. Cytopathology

Director

Director (Education)

Specialty/Department: Pathology

Clinical Interest: Histopathology, Cytology

Clinical Appointments

  • Senior Consultant Anatomical Pathology Singapore General HospitalSingapore General Hospital

Profile

Dr Takano is a general pathologist with additional certification in Cytopathology. She completed four years of training in Pathology at Harvard University in Boston, followed by two years of SurgicalView More +

Education

  • Bachelor in Medicine, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos (UNMSM), Lima-Peru 1987. 
  • Physician & Surgeon'sDegree, UNMSM. Lima-Peru, 1988. 
  • Residency in Anatomic and Clinical Pathology, New England Deaconess  
  •  Hospital, Harvard Medical School, 1990-1995, Boston, MA, USA. 
  • Surgical Pathology Fellowship, Hartford Hospital, 1995-1996, Hartford, CT, USA. 
  • Cytopathology Fellowship, Hartford Hospital, 1996-1997, Hartford, CT. 
  • Oncologic Pathology Fellowship, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center MSKCC, 1997-1998, New York, NY, USA. 
  • Certified by the American Board of Pathology in Anatomical & Clinical Pathology,1996. 
  • Certified by the American Board of Pathology in Cytopathology, 1997 
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Professional Appointments and Committee Memberships

  • ​Pathology Instructor, UNMSM, 1988-1990, Lima- Peru. 
  • General Practitioner for the Instituto Peruano de Seguridad Social, 1988, Tumbes, Peru. 
  • General Practitioner for the Ministerio de Salud, 1999, Lima-Peru. 
  • Asistant Pathologist and Pathology Instructor at Shonan Kamakura General Hospital,1998-2000, Kamakura-Japan. 
  • Director of Laboratory at Commonwealth Health Center, Saipan
  • And Acting Medical Examiner of the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, 2000-2002 USA. 
  • Consultant, Department of Pathology, National University Hospital of Singapore NUH, 2002-2005, Singapore. 
  • Medical Director of Quest Laboratories Pte.Ltd. of Singapore, 2005-2007. 
  • Senior Consultant, Department of Pathology, Singapore General Hospital, 2007- 2009.
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Awards

  • Ranked first in place among 350 Medical Graduates from the School of Medicine of the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima-Peru in1988. 
  • Paul E. Strandjord Young Investigator Award, The Academy of Clinical  Laboratory Physicians and Scientists, Syracuse, New York, USA, 1995

Research Interests

  • Lung cancer
  • Lung disease
  • Lung cytopathology
  • Artificial intelligence

Publications

  • Min En Nga, Kong-Bing Tan, Jean Pierre Laporte, Angela Takano. A recurrent third ventricular brain tumour. Part 1, Pathology, 2006 June 3 (38): 254-257 
  • Jain D, Eslami-Varzaneh F, Takano A. et.al. Composite glandular and endocrine tumor of the stomach with pancreatic acinar differentiation. Am J Surg Pathol. 2005 Nov; 29(11): 1524-1529. 
  • Fiel Gan MD, Almeida LM, Rose DC, Takano A, Rezuke WM, Coleman WB, Garcia NF, Tsongalis GJ. Proliferative fraction, bcl-1 gene translocation, and p53 mutation status as markers in mantle cell lymphoma. Int J. Mol Med 1999;4:373-379. 
  • Takano, AM. Tumores benignos del higado. Medicina Moderna, 1996;2:27-32. Lima-Peru. 

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