Yasunori Minami, MD, is Clinical Associate Professor of Gastroenterology and Hepatology at Kindai University Faculty of Medicine in Japan. He trained in Medicine at Kindai University Hospital since 1997, studied on imaging diagnosis of focal liver lesions and ablation therapy for HCC and completed a PhD in Surgery about TACE response assessment in CEUS at Kindai University Faculty of Medicine in 2003. He undertook a visiting fellowship in liver disease at University of California, San Diego (UCSD) Hospital (2008-2009), before returning to Kindai University Hospital. Dr. Minami is now a board member of Asian Conference on Tumor Ablation (ACTA). He has authored more than 160 original manuscripts in peer-reviewed journals in the field of liver disease, with an H-index of 44 (Google Scholar) and 6,043 citations.