4/1/2021 - present, Lecturer, Department of Otolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery, The University of Tokyo Hospital, Japan

3/24/2010, PhD, Graduate school of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Japan

3/31/2002, Graduated from Faculty of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Japan

I would like to introduce my research on medical device development in the field of vestibular disorders.

First, I developed a diagnostic method known as foam posturography, which evaluates postural stability using a foam rubber placed under the feet. This method enables simple and practical estimation of vestibular function (e.g., Fujimoto C, Clin Neurophysiol, 2009). It was subsequently approved for reimbursement in Japan and has been widely adopted in clinical practice, with more than 1,900 devices installed in medical institutions, establishing it as an important tool for balance assessment.

Next, I have been working on the development of a portable therapeutic medical device for patients with intractable vestibular disorders employing noisy galvanic vestibular stimulation. (e.g., Fujimoto C, Sci Rep, 2019; Fujimoto C, PloS One, 2025).

More recently, my research has focused on the development of a daily dizziness monitoring system using smartphones and machine learning, as well as the application of millimeter-wave radar-based non-contact biosensing technologies.