Dr. Takao Itoi is Professor and Chair of the Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology at Tokyo Medical University in Tokyo, Japan.
He graduated from Tokyo Medical University in 1991 and worked as a gastroenterologist at Tokyo Medical University Hospital. His focus is on diagnostic and therapeutic endoscopy, especially for pancreatobiliary diseases, using EUS and ERCP including balloon enteroscopy-assisted ERCP. To date, he has published more than 560 peer-reviewed articles in high impact journals and regularly conducts international live training courses.