Message from Dr. Takada

For almost 30 years since my graduation, I have practiced internal medicine and rheumatology at university hospitals, general hospitals, and clinics.

Throughout my career, I have always considered my patients as my own family, and provided care with the same compassion and dedication I would give to my loved ones. Specifically, I have always strived to live by the following principles:

• Always be responsible and reliable
• Never give up on patients or leave issues unresolved
• Always be flexible to the needs and circumstances of patients: Rather than imposing treatment guidelines unilaterally, I listen to the patient's situation, propose multiple treatment plans, and collaboratively find the one that best suits their needs.

Additionally, while specialization has ensured high-quality healthcare at the specialty level, I recognized the following drawbacks:

• Lack of seamless integration between rheumatology and internal medicine services: Patients need to visit rheumatology and internal medicine clinics separately, leading to the development of otherwise avoidable drug interactions or specialists’ passing patient’s clinical issues back and forth.
• Lack of seamless integration between internal medicine or rheumatology and psychiatry services: For example, patients may receive inappropriate treatment for psychiatric symptoms which are misdiagnosed as those related to internal medicine or rheumatology conditions.

Furthermore, non-Japanese-speaking patients are not provided with medical services of the same quality as Japanese-speaking patients.

In my clinic, I provide high-quality care in internal medicine, rheumatology, and primary-care psychiatry without boundaries, regardless of the language used (Japanese or English).

I support patients both mentally and physically, allowing them to actively engage in health-related decision-making and in their treatment, so that they could have hope for tomorrow, and realize their full potential and self-actualize.

About Dr. Kazuki Takada

Kazuki Takada, MD, is a provider of internal medicine and rheumatology services for patients throughout the Metropolitan Tokyo area. At Park East Clinic Kiyosumi Shirakawa, Dr. Takada offers expert medical care for various rheumatic, autoimmune, and systemic inflammatory conditions, as well as internal medicine diseases.

After receiving M.D. from Kyushu University School of Medicine in 1994, Dr. Takada completed one-year super-rotating internship at United States Naval Hospital in Yokosuka and one-year internal medicine residency training at Kameda Medical Center in Japan. He then moved to the United States in 1996 and completed a three-year internal medicine residency at Mount Sinai Beth Israel in New York, and a three-year rheumatology fellowship at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland. During the fellowship, Dr. Takada engaged in observational as well as investigational clinical research in rheumatoid arthritis, lupus nephritis, and dermatomyositis.

Dr. Takada returned to Japan in 2002 and had served as a full-time faculty staff of Tokyo Medical and Dental University (TMDU). Besides providing rheumatology ambulatory care at TMDU hospital, Tokyo Midtown Clinic in Roppongi, and Karuizawa West General Hospital in Nagano, Dr. Takada engaged in investigational clinical research with a specific focus on interstitial lung diseases associated with idiopathic inflammatory myositis over the first 10 years, and in curricular reform and university internationalization in the second 10 years of his career at TMDU. Throughout his career at TMDU, he also served as a teaching professor and received numerous awards for his excellence in teaching from graduating classes and from the university.

Dr. Takada is one of the most dedicated English-speaking and US board-certified internists and rheumatologists in Tokyo. If you need help with your internal medicine or rheumatology problems, call the friendly team at Park East Clinic Kiyosumi Shirakawa or book an appointment online.

Licensure, board certification, society membership

Licensure, board certification

• Physician's License, Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, Japan
• Licensure for Physician, the Maryland Board of Physicians
• Diplomate in Internal Medicine, the American Board of Internal Medicine
• Diplomate in Rheumatology, the American Board of Internal Medicine
• Diplomate in General Internal Medicine, the Japanese Society of Internal Medicine
• Diplomate in Rheumatology, the Japan College of Rheumatology

Society membership

• Fellow, the American College of Physicians
• Fellow, the American College of Rheumatology
• Member, the Japanese Society of Internal Medicine
• Member, the Japan College of Rheumatology