Dr. Haruko Yamamoto, a specialist of neurology, is now the Director of the Dept. of Data Science at the National Cerebral and Cardiovascular Center (NCVC). After leading the academic research organization at NCVC for more than ten years, while worked as a specialist in cerebrovascular diseases, she was appointed as the Chief Medical Officer/ Associate Executive Director at the Pharmaceutical and Medical Devices Agency. She also has led several investigator-initiated clinical studies evaluating new drugs and high-risk medical devices. She served as a member of the DIA Advisory Council of Japan for four years, and is a member of program committee of the Medical Device Symposium. Dr. Yamamoto holds a PhD in medicine from Osaka University.