Osami Honjo

Research Synopsis

Dr. Osami Honjo became a staff cardiovascular surgeon at The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) in July 2010 after completing fellowship at SickKids and St. Michael’s Hospital, University of Toronto.

Dr. Honjo’s clinical practice focuses on open heart surgery in neonates and infants with complex congenital heart diseases, surgical palliation for single ventricle patients, mechanical cardiopulmonary support in paediatric population, and surgery for patients with adult congenital heart diseases. Dr. Honjo serves as the surgical director of heart transplantation and mechanical circulatory support since 2012 and served as an interim head of the division from 2018 to 2019.

As a senior associate scientist in Translational medicine, Dr. Honjo’s academic focuses include the ex-vivo heart perfusion for optimizing heart transplant donor hearts and development of a novel mechanical circulatory support for neonates and infants with single ventricle physiology, which he obtained multiple national funding. Dr. Honjo holds Watson Family Chair in Cardiovascular Science since 2019.

Dr. Honjo’s academic interests in clinical research have been preoperative and intraoperative decision making on critically ill patients. His research primarily focuses on seeking for clinical predictors/factors that influences outcome, which improve the quality of surgeons’ decision making and patients’ outcome.

Dr. Honjo obtained medical degree at Shimane Medical University and PhD at Okayama University, Japan. He is a diplomat of Japan Surgical Society, and Japanese board of cardiovascular surgery.