Motoko Tachihara graduated from Fukushima Medical University in 2000. I received post-graduate training from 2000-2006, and worked as an assistant professor in the Department of Pulmonary Medicine, School of Medicine, Fukushima Medical University, Japan, from 2006 to 2010 and that of Kobe University, School of Medicine from 2011 to the present. Now, I’m a project associate professor of the Division of Respiratory Medicine, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine. I obtained my M.D. in 2000 and Ph.D. in 2007. My special field is the diagnosis and treatment of lung cancer. I am a board-certified member of the Japanese Society of Internal Medicine, the Japan Society for Respiratory Endoscopy, the Japanese Respiratory Society, the Japanese Society of Lung Cancer, and the Japanese Society of Medical Oncology. I received two awards (Travel awards of 2008 APSR（Asian Pacific Society of Respiratory, Nov/2008), WJOG (West Japan Oncology Group) Ariyoshi-Fukuoka award (2015)).