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Dr. Hiroyuki Isayama

Japan

Dr. Isayama, M.D. & Ph.D., is professor & chairperson in the Department of Gastroenterology, Graduate School of Medicine, Juntendo University. He has published more than 594　peer-reviewed English articles (>3298.80 IF). He has special interest in therapeutic Endoscopy (ERCP, digestive tract stenting) and interventional EUS, and Oncology for pancreato-biliary malignancies. He has many experiences in live demonstrations and invited lectures internationally.

He developed many metallic and plastic stents for biliary, pancreatic and digestive tract, and is the pioneer of biliary covered self-expandable metallic stent (SEMS). Dr. Isayama was chief of making GL committee of EUS-BD, Primary sclerosing cholangitis and endoscopic management of walled-off necrosis, and he is the committee member of clinical practice guidelines of both pancreas cancer and cholangiocarcinoma, and biliary stones. He is a president of T-CAP.SS (Tokyo Conference of Asian Pancreato-biliary Interventional Endoscopy, Second Season), is international workshop and annually held in Tokyo.