Shigeru Hirabayashi
Professor
Teikyo University of Science
Japan
Biography
Shigeru Hirabayashi, an orthopaedic surgeon, graduated from The University of Tokyo in1978. Since 2007, he is a Professor of Department of Orthopaedic Surgery of Teikyo University Hospital and a Dean of Faculty of Medical Sciences of Teikyo University of Science. His special field is compressed myelopathy due to degenerative spinal diseases such as cervical myelopathy (spondylotic, OPLL: ossification of the posterior longitudinal ligament), and thoracic myelopathy (OPLL, OLF: ossification of the ligamentum flavum).
Research Interest
His research interests include Orthopaedic Surgery and Spinal diseases.