Takuji GOTODA, MD, Ph.D. graduated from Tokyo Medical University in 1992. After the internship, he started residency for Gastrointestinal Oncology from 1995 and was appointed the Chief of the Endoscopy Division at National Cancer Center Hospital from 2006. He has received ASGE Audiovisual Award in 2005 and 2010. He has served in the board member of Digestion, Gastric Cancer, Digestive Endoscopy and Gastrointestinal Endoscopy, and the council of the Japanese Gastric Cancer Association, Japanese Society of Gastroenterology, Japanese Gastroenterological Endoscopy Society, and Japanese Society of Gastroenterology. He has also been honored as a Fellow of ASGE from 2012, ACG from 2015, and RCA from 2015. Very recently, he is serving as a guest professor, The PLA Army General Hospital from 2016 and Visiting Professor Qinghai Provincial People’s Hospital from 2017. His presented position is Professor, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Department of Medicine, Nihon University School of Medicine, from November 2015. He has more than 250 publications in peer-review journals with more than 22,700 citations and a current H-index of 72.