Hiroaki Abe, M.D., Ph.D., a graduate of the University of Tokyo School of Medicine in 2005. Currently serving as a lecturer in the Department of Pain and Palliative Medicine at the University of Tokyo Hospital. I specialize in utilizing medical big data for research in the fields of anesthesia, pain medicine, and palliative care. I am a Board Certified Medical Specialist in several societies such as the Japanese Society of Anesthesiologists, the Japanese Society for Palliative Medicine, the Japan Society of Pain Clinicians, and the Society for Clinical Epidemiology.