Hideo Izawa, MD, PhD, is a Professor and Chair of the Department of Cardiology, Fujita Health University School of Medicine, Toyoake, Japan. He received his MD from Nagoya University School of Medicine in 1989 and his PhD from Nagoya University. After serving as a lecturer in the Department of Cardiology at Nagoya University, he became Associate Professor (2008), Professor (2011), and Hospital Director (2014) at Fujita Health University Bantane Hospital and assumed his current position in 2020. He serves as a board member of the Japanese Association of Cardiac Rehabilitation. His awards include the Young Investigator Award (2003) and the Clinical Research Award (2006) of the Japanese College of Cardiology, and the Kimura Noboru Award of the Japanese Association of Cardiac Rehabilitation (2020). His research interests include heart failure, cardiomyopathy, hypertension, and cardiac rehabilitation.