Jun Furumido
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About
Dr. Jun Furumido is a pioneering urological surgeon and researcher whose work sits at the intersection of surgical education, operative workload, and prostate cancer biology. His most impactful contribution is the development and validation of a porcine organ model for training in essential laparoscopic skills (26 citations), providing a realistic, wet-lab platform that allows trainees to safely master core techniques outside the operating room. Building on this, Dr. Furumido has conducted critical needs-assessment surveys that reveal a substantial gap between trainees’ self-assessed competencies and the expectations of their instructors, directly informing curriculum design in urology. He has also prospectively quantified surgeons’ mental and physical workloads during real-world laparoscopic and robotic procedures, shining a light on the often-overlooked human cost of modern surgery. In parallel, his translational work on biglycan expression in the stroma of prostate cancers (8 citations) identifies a novel prognostic factor linked to progression to castration-resistant disease. Finally, his comparative study of complications after radical cystectomy over two decades in Japan (10 citations) underscores that, despite advances in minimally invasive approaches and enhanced recovery protocols, this procedure remains associated with significant morbidity—a sobering finding that drives his ongoing efforts to improve both training and patient outcomes.
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