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a truly kind and generous man with incredible skill..i remember him playing the violin with my son at his office so many years ago
allan menachem md
January 17, 2026 | Work


New York, New York
1935 - 2021Medical Trailblazer, Dr. Hiromi Shinya, Dies at 86 Dr. Hiromi Shinya, a pioneer of modern colonoscopy and inventor of the polypectomy snare, has died in Tokyo, Japan. He was 86 years old. Dr. Shinya was born on March 6, 1935, to Jisaburo and Sugano Shingai in Yanagawa,...
Read Morea truly kind and generous man with incredible skill..i remember him playing the violin with my son at his office so many years ago
allan menachem md
January 17, 2026 | Work
Always in my memories God blesses you Hiromi !!!
ronan mcloughlin
January 17, 2026 | Work
Fond memories of this amazing man! Thankfully for me we arrived in nyc around the same time- he saved my life!
Maureen Risi
February 10, 2025 | Other
a truly talented physician and warm human being
allan menachem
January 17, 2025 | Work
UNFORTUNATELY I just read your book on Prodigious Enzyme . I had a colonoscopy and found I had colon cancer. I am 82 years old feeling well, have not had chemotherapy and will follow some of your advice which can be practiced eventhough I had an operation. GOD BLESS YOU for your generous life and so many light in this field. You have saved so many lives. I am Mexican and feel very proud of such a human being as you. Thank you.
Lucy Cejudo. Mexico City. Mexico.
December 09, 2024 | Other
We are gifted from your kindness and brilliance.
ronan mcloughlin
February 27, 2024 | Work
A kind and generous man. A dynamic surgeon. You are missed
Allan Menachem MD
December 12, 2023 | Work
Descansa en paz. Gracias por compartir tu sabiduría.
Javier
December 07, 2023 | Other
Present for the 20th anniversary of flexible endoscopy, first performed at Beth Israel Hospital, Dr. Shinya presented a home movie of the first procedure performed in the basement of the hospital. To live in an era where medical history was made, how grateful we all are because of Drs. Shinya and Wolff. As a GI nurse, I remember a patient who had a large, cancerous polyp successfully removed, with the edges clear of disease. When calling the patient with the results of the biopsies, I was...
Elisa Hinken
September 20, 2023 | Work