Dr. Shozo Tanada

About

Dr. Shozo Tanada is consultant physician and occupational health doctor at Hanabusa Women’s Clinic in Kobe. After graduating from the Faculty of Medicine at Kyoto University in 1972 and beginning his career in the university’s OB-GYN department, he served as lecturer in obstetrics and gynecology at Ehime University Faculty of Medicine, senior physician at Kobe City Central Citizens’ Hospital (from 1983) and head of the OB-GYN department at Hyogo Prefectural Amagasaki Hospital (from 1990).

Across more than five decades of clinical practice he has attended over 10,000 deliveries and performed thousands of gynecological operations. While leading the prefectural hospital OB-GYN department he became one of the first physicians to introduce in vitro fertilization and embryo transfer into Hyogo’s prefectural hospital system, opening a local treatment pathway for infertility patients. He joined Hanabusa Women’s Clinic in 2005 as director of its Tarumi clinic and now continues to provide clinical guidance as consultant and occupational health physician.

Clinical Expertise

• IVF (In Vitro Fertilization): pioneering-era experience as one of the first to establish IVF embryo transfer within Hyogo’s prefectural hospitals, with deep grounding in conventional stimulation and transfer programs
• Comprehensive OB-GYN care: over 50 years spanning obstetric emergencies and the full range of gynecological treatment
• Gynecological endoscopic surgery: extensive operative experience accumulated across several major hospital appointments
• General infertility treatment: complete pathway from baseline infertility testing through timed therapy, IUI and IVF
• Occupational health: Japan Medical Association-certified occupational physician, attentive to balancing patients’ work lives with treatment

Why Choose Dr. Tanada

There is little substitute for volume of experience in obstetrics and gynecology: Dr. Tanada’s 10,000-plus deliveries and thousands of surgeries give him pattern recognition across a half-century of changing practice, from pre-IVF infertility care to today’s protocols. His perspective is valuable for patients with complex surgical histories or secondary infertility, and he represents the classic IVF tradition at a clinic better known for high-tech add-ons — a grounding influence on treatment planning. He also holds societal roles including council member of the Kyoto University Onchikai alumni association and vice-chair of the Hyogo Prefecture review committee under the Maternal Protection Law.

Professional Affiliations

Dr. Tanada is a designated physician under Japan’s Maternal Protection Law, a Board-Certified Specialist of the Japan Society of Obstetrics and Gynecology, and a certified occupational health physician of the Japan Medical Association. He has held public-service roles including vice-chair of the Hyogo Prefecture Maternal Protection Law review committee and council member of the Kobe City Medical Association’s OB-GYN branch.

Suitable For

• Patients wanting a senior OB-GYN opinion — half a century of clinical breadth supports thorough, level-headed assessment of fertility health.
• Infertility patients with complex surgical histories — years as a hospital department head bring particular insight into secondary infertility after prior operations.
• Patients seeking conventional IVF programs — foundational experience in standard in vitro fertilization and embryo transfer technique.