Teruaki Mizobuchi, MD, PhD is Chief of the Department of General Thoracic Surgery at Chibaken Saiseikai Narashino Hospital, Chiba, Japan. He graduated from Chiba University School of Medicine in 1995 and received his PhD from Chiba University Graduate School of Medicine in 2003. From 2001 to 2003, he worked as a Research Fellow in the Department of Immunobiology at Indiana University School of Medicine, USA. He subsequently served as Assistant Professor and later Lecturer in the Department of General Thoracic Surgery at Chiba University Hospital. He also served as Vice Director of the Pneumothorax Center and Chief of Thoracic Surgery at Tamagawa Hospital before assuming his current position in 2019. His clinical and research interests include spontaneous pneumothorax, cystic lung diseases, thoracic endometriosis syndrome, LAM, Birt-Hogg-Dubé syndrome, minimally invasive thoracic surgery including uniportal VATS and robotic-assisted thoracic surgery, and surgical treatment of lung cancer. Dr. Mizobuchi has authored numerous peer-reviewed publications in thoracic surgery and transplantation research, including studies on pleural covering techniques for cystic lung diseases, compensatory lung growth after pulmonary resection, salvage surgery after carbon-ion radiotherapy, and lung transplantation immunology. He has received several academic awards from the Japanese Society of Surgery and other scientific societies for his research on thoracic surgery.