I am a professor at Ohu University School of Dentistry and am in charge of geriatric dentistry classes and belong to the Shika town study team in Kanazawa University Graduate School of Medical Science. I graduated from Ohu University and got a Doctor of Dental Science in 1995. I am an epidemiologist who investigates factors associated with dysphagia and oral frailty. I am a specialist of the Japan Society of Gerodontology and a certified dentist of the Japanese Society of Dental Anesthesiology and the Japanese Society of Dysphagia Rehabilitation.