Hiroko Kunitake, MD, MPH.

Abstract

Dr. Hiroko Kunitake is a staff colon and rectal surgeon at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and assistant professor of surgery at Harvard Medical School in Boston, MA. Hiroko was born in Lake Forest, Illinois, and received her undergraduate (biochemical sciences) at Harvard College and medical school training at the University of California-Los Angeles. She also received a Master of Music and Doctor of Musical Arts in Piano Performance at the USC Thornton School of Music at the University of Southern California. She went on to perform her general surgery residency training at Massachusetts General Hospital and completed her colon and rectal surgery residency training at the University of Minnesota. After spending a few years at Boston University, she went back to MGH, where she has stayed on as staff since 2016.