Tatsuya Yamasoba is currently serving as a Director of Tokyo Teishin Hospita. He is an ex-chairman of the Department of Otolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery at the University of Tokyo and an executive board member of IFOS, CORLAS, Asia Oceania ORL-HNS, and the ORL Society of Japan which has more than 11000 members. He is also a President of the Japanese Audiological Society. His main fields are otology and neurotology and he has a lot of experience in cochlear implantation, tympanoplasty, canaloplasty, and lateral skull base surgery, as well as basic research in auditory and vestibular fields. He has 532 publications with 13157 citations and an h-index of 52 (Scopus, 30 November 2023).