Venue & Travel

Prof. Reiko Ashida

Japan

Reiko Ashida, M.D., Ph.D., is Professor and Head of the Division of Minimally Invasive Acoustic Theranostics at Wakayama Medical University, Japan. She earned her M.D. and Ph.D. from Osaka City University and completed an advanced fellowship in interventional endoscopy at the University of California, Irvine. She previously served at the Osaka International Cancer Institute and as Associate Professor at Wakayama Medical University.

Her clinical and research interests include endoscopic ultrasound (EUS)-guided diagnosis and tissue acquisition for pancreatic diseases, interventional EUS, genomic profiling and liquid biopsy in pancreatic cancer, surveillance of hereditary pancreatic tumors, and ultrasound-based theranostics.

She is an Associate Editor of the Journal of Gastroenterology and a Fellow of the American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy. In 2024, she founded WEGECA (Women Endoscopists for Global Exchange and Career Advancement) to support the international careers of women endoscopists. Her honors include the Women Researcher Award from the Japanese Society of Gastroenterology.