Dr. Hironori Yamamoto serves as Professor of the Department of Endoscopic Research and International Education at Jichi Medical University, Tochigi, Japan.
He invented double-balloon endoscopy in 1998 and published the first report as “Yamamoto, et al. Total enteroscopy with a nonsurgical steerable double-balloon method Gastrointest Endosc. 2001;53:216-20.” He is also one of the pioneers of endoscopic submucosal dissection (ESD). He started ESD in 1998 and he is the first reporter of complete ESD cases in the stomach and colon (Yamamoto, et al. Successful en bloc resection of a large superficial gastric cancer by using sodium hyaluronate and electrocautery incision forceps. Gastrointest Endosc. 2001;54:629-32, Yamamoto, et al. Successful en-bloc resection of large superficial tumors in the stomach and colon using sodium hyaluronate and small-caliber-tip transparent hood. Endoscopy. 2003;35:690-4.)
He currently serve as a director of Japan Gastroenterological Endoscopy Society, responsible for International Committee of Japan Gastroenterological Endoscopy Society.
