Current Roles

• Director, Clinical Research Center, Saitama Medical University (2020 – Present)

• Director, Public Relations Office, Saitama Medical University (2022 – 2025)

• Professor and Chairman, Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Saitama Medical University (2016 – Present)

Professional Experience

• Vice President, Saitama Medical University Hospital (2018 – 2022)

• Professor, Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Saitama Medical University, Saitama, Japan (2011 – 2016)

• Associate Professor, Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Nippon Medical School, Tokyo, Japan (2007 – 2011)

• Visiting Fellow, National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, MD, USA (1992 – 1995)

Leadership

• Board Member, Japanese Society of Otorhinolaryngology (2022 – Present)

• Board Member, Japanese Otological Society (2018 – 2024)

• Board Member, Japanese Society for Equilibrium Research (2014 – 2019, 2021 – 2022, 2025-)

• Criteria head, Barany Society Committee for Establishing Diagnostic Criteria of Perilymphatic Fistula