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Masaru Kubota, MD, PhD


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About Masaru Kubota, MD, PhD:

Dr. Masaru Kubota is an Assistant Professor of Surgery and a transplant surgeon at Columbia University Irving Medical Center. He received his MD in General Surgery and his PhD in pancreatic cancer diagnosis and treatment from Osaka University in Japan. He is board-certified in General Surgery and Gastroenterology.

His interests focus on liver and abdominal transplant surgery, particularly in situ and ex situ organ machine perfusion, including Normothermic Regional Perfusion (NRP). He is also committed to educating surgical fellows in organ recovery techniques.

Expertise:

Liver & Abdominal Transplant Surgery
Transplant Surgery

Appointments:

Assistant Professor of Surgery at CUIMC

Education:

Medical School: Kansai Medical University
Residency: Osaka National Hospital, Osaka, Japan

New Patients:

YES

Locations

Primary Locations:

CUIMC/Presbyterian Hospital and Vanderbilt Clinic

622 West 168th Street
New York, NY 10032

For new and current patient appointments, call:
(212) 305-0914

Insurances:

Please contact the doctor's office directly to verify that your particular insurance is accepted.

AETNA [Aetna Signature Administrators, Student Health, NY Signature, NYP Employee Plan]
Affinity Health Plan [Medicaid Managed Care]
Amerigroup of New Jersey [New Jersey Services (Medicaid Managed Care)]
CIGNA [HMO, POS, PPO, Medicare Managed Care, Great West (National), EPO, POS]
Emblem/GHI [Medicare Managed Care, PPO]
Emblem/HIP [PPO, ConnectiCare, POS, Select Care (Exchange), EPO, HMO, Essential Plan, Vytra, Medicare Managed Care, ConnectiCare]
Empire Blue Cross Blue Shield HealthPlus [Essential Plan, Child/Family Health Plus]
Empire Blue Cross/Blue Shield [EPO, HMO, PPO]
Fidelis Care [Essential Plan, Medicaid Managed Care, Medicare Managed Care, Essential Plan, Medicaid Managed Care, Medicare Managed Care, Medicare Managed Care, Medicare Managed Care]
Healthfirst [Leaf (Exchange), Child/Family Health Plus, Medicare Managed Care, Child/Family Health Plus]
Local 1199 [Local 1199, Local 1199]
MVP Health Care [HMO, Medicaid Managed Care, Medicaid Managed Care, Child/Family Health Plus, Essential Plan]
MagnaCare (National) [MagnaCare, MagnaCare]
Medicare [Traditional Medicare, Railroad, Railroad]
Multiplan [Multiplan, Multiplan]
Quality Health Management [Quality Health Management, Quality Health Management]
RiverSpring [Special Needs]
UnitedHealthcare [Medicaid (Community Plan), POS, Oxford Freedom, Oxford HMO, PPO, HMO, Oxford Liberty, Compass (Exchange), Empire Plan]
VNSNY CHOICE [Special Needs, SelectHealth]
WellCare [New Jersey Services (Medicaid Managed Care), Medicare Managed Care]
World Trade Center Health Plan [World Trade Center Health Plan]

Publications:

Operative Techniques in Transplantation Surgery. Chapter 17 Right Hepatectomy for Living Donation. Karim J. Halazun, Masaru Kubota, and Benjamin Samstein. ISBN/ISSN:9781451188745. Publication Date: December 2, 2014.

Pancreatic tumor tissue blood flow using Xenon CT. Journal of Biliary Tract & Pancreas (in Japanese). Masaru Kubota, Keizo Dono, Morito Monden, et al. ISSN?0388-9408?23 (7) 565-569, 2002.

Poon, M.M.L., D.P. Caron, Z. Wang, S.B. Wells, D. Chen, W. Meng, P.A. Szabo, N. Lam, M. Kubota, R. Matsumoto, A. Rahman, E.T. Luning Prak, Y. Shen, P.A. Sims, and D.L. Farber, Tissue adaptation and clonal segregation of human memory T cells in barrier sites. Nat Immunol, 2023. 24(2): p. 309-319.

Connors, T.J., R. Matsumoto, S. Verma, P.A. Szabo, R. Guyer, J. Gray, Z. Wang, P. Thapa, P. Dogra, M.M.L. Poon, K. Rybkina, M.C. Bradley, E. Idzikowski, J. McNichols, M. Kubota, K. Pethe, Y. Shen, M.A. Atkinson, M. Brusko, T.M. Brusko, A.J. Yates, P.A. Sims, and D.L. Farber, Site-specific development and progressive maturation of human tissue-resident memory T cells over infancy and childhood. Immunity, 2023. 56(8): p. 1894-1909 e5.

Ural, B.B., D.P. Caron, P. Dogra, S.B. Wells, P.A. Szabo, T. Granot, T. Senda, M.M.L. Poon, N. Lam, P. Thapa, Y.S. Lee, M. Kubota, R. Matsumoto, and D.L. Farber, Inhaled particulate accumulation with age impairs immune function and architecture in human lung lymph nodes. Nat Med, 2022. 28(12): p. 2622-2632.

Chait, M., M.M. Yilmaz, S. Shakil, A.W. Ku, P. Dogra, T.J. Connors, P.A. Szabo, J.I. Gray, S.B. Wells, M. Kubota, R. Matsumoto, M.M. Poon, M.E. Snyder, M.R. Baldwin, P.A. Sims, A. Saqi, D.L. Farber, and S.P. Weisberg, Immune and epithelial determinants of age-related risk and alveolar injury in fatal COVID-19. JCI Insight, 2022. 7(11).

Poon, M.M.L., K. Rybkina, Y. Kato, M. Kubota, R. Matsumoto, N.I. Bloom, Z. Zhang, K.M. Hastie, A. Grifoni, D. Weiskopf, S.B. Wells, B.B. Ural, N. Lam, P.A. Szabo, P. Dogra, Y.S. Lee, J.I. Gray, M.C. Bradley, M.A. Brusko, T.M. Brusko, E.O. Saphire, T.J. Connors, A. Sette, S. Crotty, and D.L. Farber, SARS-CoV-2 infection generates tissue-localized immunological memory in humans. Sci Immunol, 2021. 6(65): p. eabl9105.

Poon, M.M.L., E. Byington, W. Meng, M. Kubota, R. Matsumoto, A. Grifoni, D. Weiskopf, P. Dogra, N. Lam, P.A. Szabo, B.B. Ural, S.B. Wells, A.M. Rosenfeld, M.A. Brusko, T.M. Brusko, T.J. Connors, A. Sette, P.A. Sims, E.T. Luning Prak, Y. Shen, and D.L. Farber, Heterogeneity of human anti-viral immunity shaped by virus, tissue, age, and sex. Cell Rep, 2021. 37(9): p. 110071.

Lee, S., M.N. Islam, K. Boostanpour, D. Aran, G. Jin, S. Christenson, M.A. Matthay, W.L. Eckalbar, D.J. DePianto, J.R. Arron, L. Magee, S. Bhattacharya, R. Matsumoto, M. Kubota, D.L. Farber, J. Bhattacharya, P.J. Wolters, and M. Bhattacharya, Molecular programs of fibrotic change in aging human lung. Nat Commun, 2021. 12(1): p. 6309.

Eguchi, H., K. Kawamoto, M. Tsujie, M. Yukawa, M. Kubota, T. Asaoka, Y. Takeda, T. Noda, J. Shimizu, H. Nagano, Y. Doki, and M. Mori, A Prospective, Multi-Center Phase I Study of Postoperative Enoxaparin Treatment in Patients Undergoing Curative Hepatobiliary-Pancreatic Surgery for Malignancies. Dig Surg, 2020. 37(1): p. 81-86.

Dogra, P., C. Rancan, W. Ma, M. Toth, T. Senda, D.J. Carpenter, M. Kubota, R. Matsumoto, P. Thapa, P.A. Szabo, M.M. Li Poon, J. Li, J. Arakawa-Hoyt, Y. Shen, L. Fong, L.L. Lanier, and D.L. Farber, Tissue Determinants of Human NK Cell Development, Function, and Residence. Cell, 2020. 180(4): p. 749-763 e13.

Weisberg, S.P., D.J. Carpenter, M. Chait, P. Dogra, R.D. Gartrell-Corrado, A.X. Chen, S. Campbell, W. Liu, P. Saraf, M.E. Snyder, M. Kubota, N.M. Danzl, B.A. Schrope, R. Rabadan, Y. Saenger, X. Chen, and D.L. Farber, Tissue-Resident Memory T Cells Mediate Immune Homeostasis in the Human Pancreas through the PD-1/PD-L1 Pathway. Cell Rep, 2019. 29(12): p. 3916-3932 e5.

Nagai, K., S. Tamura, J. Matsuyama, H. Imamura, Y. Yagi, Y. Mokutani, Y. Hashimoto, H. Hirose, Y. Ide, M. Kubota, Y. Fukushima, and Y. Sasaki, [A Case of Early Gastric Cancer That Coexisted with Multiple Submucosal Heterotopic Gastric Glands]. Gan To Kagaku Ryoho, 2019. 46(3): p. 592-594.

Kubota, M., Y. Hashimoto, H. Imamura, Y. Yagi, T. Noma, Y. Mokutani, K. Nagai, H. Hirose, Y. Ide, J. Matsuyama, Y. Fukushima, Y. Nishioka, M. Takeda, S. Tamura, and Y. Sasaki, [Hepatocellular Carcinoma with Bile Duct Thrombosis - A Case Report]. Gan To Kagaku Ryoho, 2018. 45(3): p. 501-503.

Kubota, M., Y. Hashimoto, H. Imamura, Y. Yagi, T. Noma, Y. Mokutani, K. Nagai, H. Hirose, Y. Ide, J. Matsuyama, Y. Fukushima, Y. Nishioka, M. Takeda, S. Tamura, and Y. Sasaki, [Gallbladder Carcinoma That Occurred 50 Years after Cholecystojejunostomy]. Gan To Kagaku Ryoho, 2018. 45(3): p. 513-514.

Hirose, H., Y. Ide, Y. Mokutani, M. Takeda, H. Imamura, Y. Hashimoto, K. Nagai, J. Matsuyama, M. Kubota, S. Tamura, and Y. Sasaki, [A Case of Anastomotic Recurrence of Rectal Cancer 22 Years after Surgery]. Gan To Kagaku Ryoho, 2018. 45(13): p. 1800-1802.

Noma, T., H. Hirose, Y. Ide, H. Imamura, Y. Yagi, Y. Mokutani, Y. Hashimoto, K. Nagai, J. Matsuyama, M. Kubota, Y. Fukushima, S. Tamura, and Y. Sasaki, [A Case of Malignant Transformation of Intraductal Papillary Mucinous Neoplasm of the Pancreas Accompanied by Metachronous Triple Primary Cancer]. Gan To Kagaku Ryoho, 2017. 44(12): p. 2026-2028.

Matsuda, C., K. Danno, S. Miyazaki, K. Fujitani, M. Kubota, M. Motoori, R. Nakatsuka, M. Nishimura, A. Kitagawa, M. Takagi, and K. Iwase, [Investigation of Administration Technique of Regorafenib in Our Center]. Gan To Kagaku Ryoho, 2017. 44(1): p. 47-51.

Thome, J.J., B. Grinshpun, B.V. Kumar, M. Kubota, Y. Ohmura, H. Lerner, G.D. Sempowski, Y. Shen, and D.L. Farber, Longterm maintenance of human naive T cells through in situ homeostasis in lymphoid tissue sites. Sci Immunol, 2016. 1(6).

Thome, J.J., K.L. Bickham, Y. Ohmura, M. Kubota, N. Matsuoka, C. Gordon, T. Granot, A. Griesemer, H. Lerner, T. Kato, and D.L. Farber, Early-life compartmentalization of human T cell differentiation and regulatory function in mucosal and lymphoid tissues. Nat Med, 2016. 22(1): p. 72-7.

Okumura, Y., J. Kawada, K. Fujitani, R. Nakatsuka, M. Motoori, S. Fukuda, S. Shimamoto, K. Nishikawa, M. Nomura, S. Miyazaki, K. Danno, M. Kubota, C. Matsuda, K. Iwase, and Y. Tanaka, [A Case of Unresectable Advanced Gastric Cancer Treated with Radiotherapy and Trans-Arterial Embolization, Resulting in Effective Hemostasis]. Gan To Kagaku Ryoho, 2015. 42(12): p. 1665-7.

Nishimura, M., J. Kawada, N. Matsuura, A. Kitagawa, M. Nomura, Y. Okumura, R. Nakatsuka, S. Miyazaki, K. Danno, M. Motoori, M. Kubota, C. Matsuda, K. Fujitani, and K. Iwase, [A Case of Resected Gastric Cancer Occurring Simultaneously with Intrahepatic Cholangiocarcinoma after S-1 plus Cisplatin Chemotherapy]. Gan To Kagaku Ryoho, 2015. 42(12): p. 1720-2.

Matsuura, N., K. Fujitani, J. Kawada, K. Nishikawa, R. Nakatsuka, S. Miyazaki, K. Danno, M. Motoori, M. Kubota, C. Matsuda, H. Yoshida, K. Iwase, and Y. Tanaka, [Interventional Radiology for Intra-Abdominal Abscess after Gastrectomy]. Gan To Kagaku Ryoho, 2015. 42(12): p. 2030-3.

Matsuda, C., K. Danno, S. Miyazaki, K. Fujitani, M. Kubota, M. Motoori, R. Nakatsuka, Y. Okumura, M. Nomura, M. Nishimura, A. Kitagawa, N. Matsuura, H. Fushimi, and K. Iwase, [Two Cases of Pathological Complete Response with Neoadjuvant Therapy for Advanced Rectal Cancer]. Gan To Kagaku Ryoho, 2015. 42(12): p. 2313-5.

Kubota, M., M. Nishimura, R. Nakatsuka, S. Miyazaki, K. Danno, M. Motoori, C. Matsuda, K. Fujitani, and K. Iwase, [Intraductal Papillary Mucinous Neoplasm (IPMN) of the Pancreas Showing High Accumulation of 18F-Fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG)--A Case Report]. Gan To Kagaku Ryoho, 2015. 42(12): p. 2394-6.

Kitagawa, A., J. Kawada, M. Motoori, K. Fujitani, N. Matsuura, M. Nishimura, M. Nomura, Y. Okumura, S. Miyazaki, K. Danno, M. Kubota, C. Matsuda, K. Nishikawa, M. Nomura, K. Iwase, and Y. Tanaka, [Analysis of Esophageal Cancer Patients Undergoing Non-Curative Resection]. Gan To Kagaku Ryoho, 2015. 42(12): p. 1920-2.

Kawada, J., R. Nakatsuka, M. Motoori, S. Miyazaki, K. Danno, M. Kubota, C. Matsuda, K. Nishikawa, K. Fujitani, K. Iwase, T. Tsujinaka, and Y. Tanaka, [Analysis of Chemotherapy with Trastuzumab in Advanced Gastric Cancer]. Gan To Kagaku Ryoho, 2015. 42(12): p. 2091-3.

Kawada, J., R. Nakatsuka, M. Motoori, S. Fukuda, S. Shimamoto, S. Miyazaki, K. Danno, M. Kubota, C. Matsuda, K. Nishikawa, K. Fujitani, K. Iwase, T. Tsujinaka, and Y. Tanaka, [A Case of Esophageal Cancer Metastases to the Skin]. Gan To Kagaku Ryoho, 2015. 42(12): p. 1896-8.

Thome, J.J., N. Yudanin, Y. Ohmura, M. Kubota, B. Grinshpun, T. Sathaliyawala, T. Kato, H. Lerner, Y. Shen, and D.L. Farber, Spatial map of human T cell compartmentalization and maintenance over decades of life. Cell, 2014. 159(4): p. 814-28.

Matsuda, C., K. Danno, S. Miyazaki, K. Fujitani, M. Kubota, J. Kawada, M. Takagi, A. Fukui, K. Iwase, and Y. Tanaka, [Tolerability of XELOX in postoperative adjuvant chemotherapy for colorectal cancer]. Gan To Kagaku Ryoho, 2014. 41(6): p. 743-7.

Kawada, J., N. Matsuura, A. Kitagawa, M. Nishimura, M. Nomura, Y. Okumura, S. Miyazaki, K. Danno, M. Kubota, C. Matsuda, K. Omori, K. Nishikawa, M. Nomura, M. Takagi, A. Fukui, K. Fujitani, K. Iwase, and Y. Tanaka, [Chemotherapy for gastric cancer patients over 75 years of age]. Gan To Kagaku Ryoho, 2014. 41(12): p. 2248-50.

Sathaliyawala, T., M. Kubota, N. Yudanin, D. Turner, P. Camp, J.J. Thome, K.L. Bickham, H. Lerner, M. Goldstein, M. Sykes, T. Kato, and D.L. Farber, Distribution and compartmentalization of human circulating and tissue-resident memory T cell subsets. Immunity, 2013. 38(1): p. 187-97.

Kawada, J., M. Nishimura, Y. Matsui, M. Nomura, Y. Noguchi, Y. Okumura, K. Danno, M. Kubota, C. Matsuda, K. Omori, K. Nishikawa, M. Nomura, M. Takagi, A. Fukui, K. Fujitani, K. Iwase, and Y. Tanaka, [Analysis of weekly paclitaxel chemotherapy for esophageal cancer]. Gan To Kagaku Ryoho, 2013. 40(12): p. 2118-20.

Kawada, J., M. Nishimura, Y. Matsui, M. Nomura, Y. Noguchi, Y. Okumura, K. Danno, M. Kubota, C. Matsuda, K. Omori, K. Nishikawa, M. Nomura, M. Takagi, A. Fukui, K. Fujitani, K. Iwase, and Y. Tanaka, [Analysis of patients with gastrointestinal neuroendocrine tumor]. Gan To Kagaku Ryoho, 2013. 40(12): p. 2448-50.

Sonnenberg, G.F., L.A. Monticelli, T. Alenghat, T.C. Fung, N.A. Hutnick, J. Kunisawa, N. Shibata, S. Grunberg, R. Sinha, A.M. Zahm, M.R. Tardif, T. Sathaliyawala, M. Kubota, D.L. Farber, R.G. Collman, A. Shaked, L.A. Fouser, D.B. Weiner, P.A. Tessier, J.R. Friedman, H. Kiyono, F.D. Bushman, K.M. Chang, and D. Artis, Innate lymphoid cells promote anatomical containment of lymphoid-resident commensal bacteria. Science, 2012. 336(6086): p. 1321-5.

Kubota, M., T. Murakami, H. Nagano, H. Eguchi, S. Marubashi, S. Kobayashi, H. Wada, M. Tanemura, K. Dono, S. Nakamori, M. Sakon, M. Monden, M. Mori, and Y. Doki, Xenon-inhalation computed tomography for noninvasive quantitative measurement of tissue blood flow in pancreatic tumor. Dig Dis Sci, 2012. 57(3): p. 801-5.

Monticelli, L.A., G.F. Sonnenberg, M.C. Abt, T. Alenghat, C.G. Ziegler, T.A. Doering, J.M. Angelosanto, B.J. Laidlaw, C.Y. Yang, T. Sathaliyawala, M. Kubota, D. Turner, J.M. Diamond, A.W. Goldrath, D.L. Farber, R.G. Collman, E.J. Wherry, and D. Artis, Innate lymphoid cells promote lung-tissue homeostasis after infection with influenza virus. Nat Immunol, 2011. 12(11): p. 1045-54.

Takahashi, H., K. Dono, S. Marubashi, K. Hashimoto, M. Kubota, S. Yamamoto, A. Miyamoto, H. Nagano, K. Umeshita, S. Nakamori, M. Sakon, and M. Monden, Reconstruction of the middle hepatic vein in a modified right liver graft of living-donor liver transplantation while preserving the recipient's middle hepatic vein. Transpl Int, 2005. 18(12): p. 1386-7.

Marubashi, S., K. Dono, M. Sakon, K. Gotoh, H. Takahashi, K. Hashimoto, M. Kubota, S. Yamamoto, A. Miyamoto, H. Nagano, S. Nakamori, K. Umeshita, and M. Monden, Portal venous reconstruction in a living liver donor with an anomalous hepatic arterial and portal venous anatomy. J Gastrointest Surg, 2005. 9(3): p. 365-8.

Ikeda, M., M. Sekimoto, S. Takiguchi, M. Kubota, M. Ikenaga, H. Yamamoto, Y. Fujiwara, M. Ohue, T. Yasuda, H. Imamura, M. Tatsuta, M. Yano, H. Furukawa, and M. Monden, High incidence of thrombosis of the portal venous system after laparoscopic splenectomy: a prospective study with contrast-enhanced CT scan. Ann Surg, 2005. 241(2): p. 208-16.

Abe, H., T. Murakami, M. Kubota, T. Kim, M. Hori, M. Kudo, K. Hashimoto, S. Nakamori, K. Dono, K. Tomoda, M. Monden, and H. Nakamura, Quantitative tissue blood flow evaluation of pancreatic tumor: comparison between xenon CT technique and perfusion CT technique based on deconvolution analysis. Radiat Med, 2005. 23(5): p. 364-70.

Marubashi, S., M. Sakon, H. Nagano, K. Gotoh, K. Hashimoto, M. Kubota, S. Kobayashi, S. Yamamoto, A. Miyamoto, K. Dono, S. Nakamori, K. Umeshita, and M. Monden, Effect of portal hemodynamics on liver regeneration studied in a novel portohepatic shunt rat model. Surgery, 2004. 136(5): p. 1028-37.

Marubashi, S., K. Dono, H. Takahashi, K. Hashimoto, M. Kubota, S. Yamamoto, A. Miyamoto, H. Nagano, S. Nakamori, K. Umeshita, M. Sakon, and M. Monden, [A case of successful treatment with combined 5-fluorouracil, adriamycin, cisplatin (FAP) therapy followed by Gemcitabine, UFT therapy and intra-arterial FAP therapy for unresectable advanced gallbladder cancer]. Gan To Kagaku Ryoho, 2004. 31(11): p. 1708-10.

Miyamoto, A., T. Kato, K. Dono, K. Umeshita, R. Kawabata, S. Hayashi, M. Kubota, S. Kobayashi, H. Nagano, S. Nakamori, M. Sakon, and M. Monden, Living-related liver transplantation with renoportal anastomosis for a patient with large spontaneous splenorenal collateral. Transplantation, 2003. 75(9): p. 1596-8.