Mamoru Shibata (1968- ) is a Professor at the Department of Neurology, Tokyo Dental College Ichikawa General Hospital, Chiba, Japan. He graduated from Keio University School of Medicine in 1992. He obtained his PhD degree from Keio University Graduate School of Medicine in 2000. When he was a post-doctoral fellow at the Department of Cell Biology, Harvard Medical School, under the supervision of Prof. Junying Yuan (2002-2005), he worked on the role of autophagy in the pathophysiology of neurodegenerative disease. He served as a Trustee of the International Headache Society from 2015 to 2017. He is currently Chair of the Pan-Asian Committee of the American Headache Society. He is also involved in various activities of the Japanese Headache Society. His recent research interests include the biological and structural changes of trigeminal ganglion neurons in migraine pathogenesis, functional interactions between TRP channels, and cortical spreading depolarization biology.