Tachi Yamada

Yamada was conferred the title Honorary Citizen of Singapore in 2016; and the Order of the Rising Sun, Gold and Silver Stars, from the Japanese Government.

He was a fellow of the Imperial College London, a Master of the American College of Physicians and a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians; and gave the last centenary lecture at Imperial College London in March 2008, which was chaired by Sir Richard Sykes.

Born in Tokyo, Yamada had a Japanese American mother and was the a 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. After attending Phillips Academy 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 Medical Corps. Subsequently, he trained in gastroenterology at the UCLA School of Medicine and assumed his first faculty position there. He later moved to the University of Michigan where he headed the Gastroenterology Division and ultimately became Chairman, Department of Internal Medicine and Physician-in-Chief of the University of Michigan Medical Center before joining GlaxoSmithKline.

Tadataka "Tachi" Yamada KBE (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.