Hiroyuki Nishi is a cardiovascular surgeon and professor of department of cardiovascular surgery at Tokai University Hachioji Hospital. He graduated from Osaka University in 1995 and worked in Melbourne and Brisbane from 2004 to 2007. He is currently one of the councilors of the Japanese Society for Cardiovascular Surgery and the Japanese Association for Thoracic Surgery. He has been involved in minimally invasive cardiac surgery (MICS) as a consultant surgeon for a long time, and has been active in promoting MICS in Japan as a key member of the Japanese Association of Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgery. He is well versed in MICS in general, and has also performed the world's first stent graft implantation using an aortic angioscopy. He has also published a paper on new postoperative management of cardiovascular surgery using the new diuretic tolvaptan, and on congestive liver failure due to severe heart failure, making him a cardiovascular surgeon with a deep knowledge of the entire field of cardiovascular surgery.
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