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Takashi Harano

Associate Professor of Clinical Surgery

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Overview

Dr. Harano is a thoracic surgeon with a focus on lung transplantation. He served general surgery residencies at Saga Prefectural Hospital in Saga, Japan and Toranomon Hospital in Tokyo. He then stayed on at Toranomon Hospital to undertake a fellowship in Thoracic Surgery with an emphasis on minimally invasive surgery and stayed on as an attending physician.

Dr. Harano took on another Thoracic Surgery fellowship at Brigham and Women’s Hospital with Harvard Medical School and then spent three years as a faculty member in the Division of Lung Transplant and Lung Failure at the University of Pittsburgh before coming to Keck Medicine of USC.

Dr. Harano is committed to a patient-centered model of care, and undertook his training in minimally invasive surgery because it offers patients reduced pain and faster recoveries. Dr. Harano believes in staying current with the latest technology in order to continually improve patient care.

Publications

  • Determinants of Failure to Rescue After Pulmonary Resection for Lung Cancer: Insights From a National Inpatient Sample. J Surg Oncol. 2026 Aug 18.. View in PubMed
  • Five Major Advancements in Thoracic Surgery Over the Past 50 Years. World J Surg. 2026 Aug; 50(8):2085-2091.. View in PubMed
  • A propensity-matched analysis of the impact of early and late percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy tube placement among patients with significant comorbidities. Surgery. 2026 Sep; 197:110337.. View in PubMed
  • Association of cannabis use and lung cancer: a retrospective cohort study. Lung Cancer. 2026 Jun; 216:109421.. View in PubMed
  • Right-Sided Versus Left-Sided Pneumonectomy in Trauma: A Nationwide Analysis. Am Surg. 2026 Oct; 92(10):2736-2743.. View in PubMed
  • Lung transplant outcomes in recipients waitlisted for both single and double lung transplantation. JHLT Open. 2026 Aug; 13:100552.. View in PubMed
  • Reconciling Survival Differences in Lobar and Sublobar Resection for Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer. J Surg Res. 2026 May; 321:291-302.. View in PubMed
  • Association of Foregut Testing and Intervention on Lung Transplant Outcomes. J Clin Gastroenterol. 2026 Mar 18.. View in PubMed
  • Narrative review of the ethics of artificial intelligence: are we ready for artificial intelligence in surgery? J Thorac Dis. 2026 Feb 28; 18(2):173. Yu E, Rosenberg GM , Udelsman BV , Harano T , Atay . View in PubMed
  • Lung retransplantation after initial single lung transplantation. JHLT Open. 2026 May; 12:100508.. View in PubMed

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