Shoichiro Tanaka, MD, MPH
Assistant Professor of Surgery
Contact:
To request an appointment with Dr. Tanaka, please call (314) 362-7388 or request an appointment online.
Overview
Patients Seen
Adults
Languages
Spanish
Specialties
- Hand and wrist surgery
- Plastic & reconstructive surgery
Common conditions treated
- Acquired breast absence
- Body contouring
- Breast augmentations
- Breast deformities
- Breast hypertrophy
- Breast hypertrophy
- Burn scar contracture
- Cancer reconstruction
- Chest wall reconstruction
- Diabetic foot wounds
- Gynecomastia
- Hand injury
- Hidradenitis suppurativa
- Limb salvage
- Liposuction
- Macromastia
- Microvascular oncologic reconstruction
- Microvascular surgery
- Mohs reconstruction
- Oncologic reconstruction
- Peripheral Nerve
- Reconstructive pelvis surgery
- Skin cancer
- Sternal reconstruction
- Wound coverage and closure
Education
Board Certification
General Surgery
Medical School
Master’s: International Health and Development, Tropical Medicine
2008 Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, New Orleans, LA
2012 Texas A&M Health Science Center School of Medicine, Byran, TX
Residency
2017 Ochsner Health System, New Orleans, LA
Fellowship
2020 Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery Fellowship, Summa Health System, Akron, OH
2021 Hand and Microsurgery Fellowship, Christine M. Kleinert Institute for Hand and Microsurgery, Louisville, KY
Research
- Clinical treatment of skin cancer
- Plastic surgery in rural settings
- Hand and upper extremity surgery outcomes
- Accuracy and efficacy of joint injections of the hand
- Hand injuries related to video game playing