Daisuke Kawakita, MD, PhD, is an Associate Professor in the Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery at Nagoya City University. He graduated from Nagoya City University in 2003 and trained in head and neck surgical oncology at the Aichi Cancer Center. He was a visiting scholar at the University of Milan and the University of Utah (2016-2017). His research interests focus on cancer epidemiology and salivary gland cancer, especially adenoid cystic carcinoma.