Dr. Kentaro Homan has a position as a PhD researcher and is currently working at the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Faculty of Medicine and Graduate School of Medicine, Hokkaido University. His research interests mainly include osteoarthritis, orthopedics, biomechanics, gait, cartilage degradation, and rehabilitation medicine. He is the author of 24 scientific publications, most of which were published in peer-reviewed journals in these fields, and his h-index is 9 (source from Scopus). He is a member of the Japanese Society of Musculoskeletal Physical Therapy, the Japanese Society of Carbohydrate Research, the Clinical Gait Analysis Study Group, the Japanese Physical Therapy Association, the Hokkaido Society of Orthopaedic and Traumatology, the Japanese Society of Cartilage Metabolism, Orthopedic Research Society, Orthopedics Biomaterial Bureau, and the Japanese Society for Biomaterials.