Rumi Ueha is a Director and Associate Professor at the Swallowing Center & Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, The University of Tokyo Hospital, Tokyo, Japan. She obtained her M.D. from the Faculty of Medicine, Nara Medical University in 2003 and her Ph.D. from The University of Tokyo Graduate School of Medicine in 2017. Her research interests are swallowing disorders in neuromuscular disease, swallowing surgery, chronic airway inflammation, olfactory receptor cell regeneration, aging in the olfactory system, and SARS-CoV-2 infection. She was awarded The Excellence Award at the 16th Scientific Meeting of the Japanese Society of Anti-Aging Medicine in 2016 and first place in the poster competition at the 64th American Rhinologic Society in 2018.