Hiroko Kunitake, MD, MPH, is a board-certified colorectal surgeon at Massachusetts General Hospital. 

She received her medical degree at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and completed her general surgery residency at Massachusetts General Hospital followed by a fellowship in Colorectal Surgery at the University of Minnesota. 

Dr. Kunitake’s clinical areas of expertise include Crohn’s disease, ulcerative colitis, colorectal cancer, diverticulitis, anorectal disease, and colonoscopy. Her particular areas of interest are in minimally invasive approaches to the treatment of Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis and sphincter preservation techniques for rectal cancer.