Haruhiro Inoue

Haruhiro Inoue is a Japanese thoracic surgeon and endoscopist best known for the development of the cap endoscopic mucosal resection technique, and the first per-oral endoscopic myotomy performed in humans. He is a professor at Showa University and Director of the Digestive Disease Centre at Showa University Koto-Toyosu Hospital in Tokyo. He is known for his work in endoscopy and his contribution to the development of endoscopic technologies and procedures.

Education and career Inoue received an M.D. from Yamaguchi University School of Medicine in 1983. In 1999, he was awarded a Ph.D. from Tokyo Medical and Dental University.

Inoue is a Fellow of the American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy, and he was honored twice with the society’s Crystal award (2006 and 2013). In 2011, he received the Pioneer in Endoscopy Award from the Society of American Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic Surgeons (SAGES), and in 2022, he was honored with that organization's George Berci Lifetime Achievement Award, its highest honour.