Professor Akio Katanuma is currently an associate professor the Department of Digestive cancer of telemedicine and Department of Gastroenterology at the Sapporo medical university, Sapporo, Japan. He is also Visiting Professor of Tokyo Medical University and Clinical Professor of Sapporo Medical University. He graduated from Sapporo Medical University School of Medicine in 1991 and trained in Muroran Municipal Hospital. He earned his doctoral degree (PhD) at Sapporo Medical University in 2020. Subsequently, Dr. Katanuma underwent training on EUS and ERCP related procedures at Teine-Keijinkai hospital. He was a director of the center for Gastroenterology from 1998 to 2025.
His research interests include EUS- and ERCP-related procedures. He has more than 200 peer-reviewed papers published in English. He is currently a Director of the Japan Gastroenterological Endoscopy Society (JGES), Japan Biliary Association (JBA), and a councilor of the Japanese society of Gastroenterology (JSGE), and Japan Pancreas society (JPS).
