
Japan
Noriya Uedo graduated from the School of Medicine at Kagoshima University in 1992. After completing an internship at Kawanishi City Hospital, he joined the Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology at Osaka University. In 1994, he started training in gastrointestinal oncology and endoscopy at the Osaka Medical Center for Cancer and Cardiovascular Diseases. In 2017, the hospital's name changed to the Osaka International Cancer Institute, and Uedo began working as vice director of the Department of Gastrointestinal Oncology.
His clinical and research interests include advanced endoscopic imaging, the endoscopic diagnosis and treatment of gastrointestinal neoplasms, and advanced diagnostic and therapeutic endoscopy training.