The 2010 TIME 100 Poll

Cast your votes for the leaders, artists, innovators and icons who you think are the most influential people in the world. Though official voting for inclusion on the TIME 100 list has now closed, with Mir-Hossein Mousavi having won the honor, users can continue to vote for their favorites until the list is revealed on Thursday, April 29th

2010 Candidates

Tomoaki Kato

By TIME STAFFThursday, Apr. 01, 2010
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courtesy of New York - Presbyterian Hospital

Age: 46
Occupation: Surgeon
Previous TIME 100 Appearances: 0

Removing tumors is now routine for thousands of cancer surgeons, but Kato is making a specialty of slicing out the deepest, most embedded ones that others consider inoperable. He's now performed two groundbreaking surgeries that lasted 15 and 23 hours each, in which he removed and replaced most of six organs from two patients in order to reach cancerous growths ensnared among arteries.

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