Tadataka yamada biography

American physician (1945–2021)

Tadataka "Tachi" YamadaKBE (山田忠孝 Yamada Tadataka or "ターチ Tachi"; 5 June 1945 – 4 August 2021) was a Japanese-born American physician and gastroenterologist.

He was a venture partner of Frazier Healthcare Partners.

Early life and education

Born in Tokyo, Yamada had a Japanese American mother^[1] and was the grandson of one of the first people of Japanese descent to be fully trained as an American physician.

In 1960, he moved to the United States where he completed his education.^[1] After attending Phillips Academy^[2] for his high school education, he graduated from Stanford University with a BA in history and obtained his M.D.

from New York University School of Medicine. He completed his internal medicine training at the Medical College of Virginia, and then became an investigator in the United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases holding the rank of major, U.S.

Army Medic