Stephan Zipfel is Professor and Chair of the Department of Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, University Medical Hospital, Tuebingen Germany. He is Vice Dean of the Medical Faculty, Vice spokesmen of the German Centre of Mental Health and Director of the Centre of Excellence for Eating Disorders Tuebingen (KOMET). He is also Editor in Chief of Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics and President of the International College of Psychosomatic Medicine (ICPM).

Hochang Benjamin (Ben) Lee, M.D. is the John Romano Professor and Chair of the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Chief of Psychiatry at Strong Memorial Hospital in Rochester. Dr. Lee is the Editor-In-Chief for Journal of the Academy of Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry and the Past President of International College of Psychosomatic Medicine.

Dr Ajandek Eory is an academic GP and medical acupuncturist. She is an Associate Professor in the Department of Family Medicine and Head of the Division of Integrative Medicine at Semmelweis University. Her main area of research is the inclusion of well-being in the psychosomatic assessment process for preventive and treatment purposes.

Dr. Nasra is Professor of Clinical Psychiatry and Associate Chair for Adult Ambulatory Services and Regional Strategy at the University of Rochester Medical Center, where he founded the Division of Collaborative Care and Wellness.

1993-2008 Professor, Department of Psychosomatic Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Kyushu University, 2008-2014 Director, Kyushu University Hospital, 2014-2020 President, Kyushu University, 2020-present President, Nakamura Gakuen University

A professor emeritus of psychiatry at Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea. He is the author of the book ‘Body, Mind and Spirituality: A Resilience-Enhancing Approach.’ He served as president of the International College of Psychosomatic Medicine (ICPM).

John F. Cryan is Professor and Chair of the Department of Anatomy & Neuroscience at University College Cork (UCC) and has served as Vice President for Research & Innovation since 2021. He is also a Principal Investigator at the APC Microbiome Institute. He holds a BSc in Biochemistry and a PhD in Pharmacology from the University of Galway, Ireland. He was a visiting fellow at the University of Melbourne. In 1996/1997 and completed postdoctoral training at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia and The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla. He spent four years as a Group Leader at Novartis in Basel before returning to Ireland and UCC in 2005.
His research focuses on the microbiome-gut–brain axis and its role in stress, psychiatric, and immune-related disorders across the lifespan. He is co-author of the bestselling book The Psychobiotic Revolution and serves on more than 15 different editorial boards.
Prof. Cryan has received numerous international awards and was elected to the Royal Irish Academy in 2017. A past president of the European Behavioural Pharmacology Society, he is currently Treasurer of European College of Neuropsychopharmacology. An avid science communicator he has delivered TEDMED and TEDx talks and was featured in the Netflix documentary Hack Your Health: The Secrets of the Gut.

Shin Fukudo, MD, PhD is a research professor of Research Center for Accelerator and Radioisotope Science, Tohoku University, and a director of Department of Psychosomatic Medicine, Japanese Red Cross Ishinomaki Hospital. He is a president of Japanese Society of Neurogastroenterology and a president emeritus of Japanese Society of Psychosomatic Medicine. He is known as a researcher of brain-gut interactions.

Sarah Garfinkel is a Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience and Leader of the Clinical and Affective Neuroscience Group at the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London. She is the current President of the British Association for Cognitive Neuroscience.

Masako Hosoi, MD, PhD is a specially appointed associate professor of Kyushu University Hospital specializing in psychosomatic medicine. An expert in chronic pain treatment with a background of neuroscience research in NIH of the United States. Her research focuses on the biopsychosocial aspects of pain and psychosomatic disorders.

MICHAEL A. HOYT, PhD is a clinical health psychologist and Professor at the University of California, Irvine and Chair of the Departments of Global Health & Biobehavioral Sciences. He serves as the Director of the UCI Center for Biomarker & Biobehavioral Research and of the Biobehavioral Shared Resource at the Chao Family Comprehensive Cancer Center.

1993: Graduated from the Faculty of Medicine, Toyama Medical and Pharmaceutical University
2021–2023: Special Professor, Department of Japanese Oriental Medicine, Toyama University Hospital.
2023–present: Professor, Department of Japanese Oriental Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Toyama.

Takahiro A. Kato, MD, PhD, is Professor and Chair of Psychiatry at Hokkaido University and Director of the world’s first Hikikomori Research Lab. He has pioneered global diagnostic frameworks and novel interventions for severe social withdrawal, establishing the first dedicated hikikomori outpatient clinic and leading international collaborations to advance understanding and treatment of hikikomori.

Graduated from Tokyo University of Education and qualified as Bachelor of Science in 1969
Currently, engaged in wide variety of seminars, lectures, and Yoga trainings based on traditional Raja Yoga, Yoga Therapy.
Chairperson of the board of directors of Japan Yoga Therapy Society

Hiroaki KUMANO is a professor of clinical psychology and is the director of the Institute of Applied Brain Sciences at Waseda University. His current research interests are mindfulness, mind wandering, attention, and meta-cognition.

Takahiro Masuda is a Distinguished Professor in the Medical Institute of Bioregulation, Kyushu University, where he leads research in molecular neuroimmunology. His work focuses on microglia and CNS border-associated macrophages, using advanced single-cell and omics technologies to understand brain development and neurodegenerative diseases.

Emeran A. Mayer, MD, is a gastroenterologist, neuroscientist, and Distinguished Research Professor of Medicine at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. He is Executive Director of the G. Oppenheimer Center for Neurobiology of Stress & Resilience, Co-Director of UCLA's SCORE on Sex Differences, and Founding Director of the Goodman Luskin Microbiome Center. His research, supported by longstanding NIH funding, focuses on brain-gut-microbiome interactions in health and disease, particularly the role of stress in IBS and IBD. He has published 449 scientific papers, co-edited three books, and authored the bestselling The Mind-Gut Connection, The Gut-Immune Connection, and Interconnected Plates.

Graduated from Waseda University School of Law; later entered the second year of Tokai University School of Medicine, graduating in 2002.
Ph.D. in Medicine at Tokai University Graduate School of Medicine in 2009.
Visiting scholar, Department of Psychiatry, Carver College of Medicine, University of Iowa, IA, US for two years from 2009.
Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Tokai University School of Medicine since 2023.

Professor, Faculty of Buddhist Studies, Rissho University, Professor Emeritus, The University of Tokyo, 1960: Born in Chiba, 1983: Graduated from The University of Tokyo. Areas: Buddhist thought and the history of meditation, Research Focus: East Asian Buddhism

Kazuhiro Nakamura, PhD, is Professor of Integrative Physiology at Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine. He is internationally recognized for pioneering studies on the neural circuitry underlying thermoregulation, energy homeostasis, and physiological responses to psychological stress. His research has advanced our understanding of the neurobiological basis of mind–body interactions and psychosomatic disorders.

2010 Ph.D., The University of Tokyo; 2013 Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California, San Diego; 2014–2021 Assistant Professor, The University of Tokyo; 2021– Professor, Tohoku University

Ulrike Schmidt is Professor of Eating Disorders at King’s College London (KCL) and a Consultant Psychiatrist at the South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust.

Michael Sharpe has spent nearly 50 years researching how best to add psychiatric expertise to other areas of medical care. He is now particularly interested in real-world solutions to the challenge of delivering such integrated healthcare. He is currently President of the European Association for Psychosomatic Medicine (EAPM) and past President of the Academy of Consultation Liaison psychiatry (ACLP) in the USA.

Magnus Simrén is Professor of Gastroenterology at the University of Gothenburg, and Senior Consultant at the Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Gothenburg, Sweden. He is also Pro-Dean of the Medical Faculty, Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Sweden, and Adjunct Professor of Medicine, University of North Carolina (UNC) School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, NC, USA. His clinical work and research focus on disorders of gut-brain interaction (DGBI), formerly known as functional Gastrointestinal Disorders

Shinichi Tohei, a science graduate from the Institute of Science Tokyo, is the President and official successor of Shinshin Toitsu Aikido Kai. He teaches at Keio University and applies mind–body unity principles globally to leadership and sports, recently featured on NHK WORLD-JAPAN's Medical Frontiers.

Dr. Kiyoshi Toko proposed the concept "to measure taste" about 30 years ago and succeeded in developing the taste sensor first in the world.

A. Janet Tomiyama, Ph.D., is the Marcie H. Rothman Presidential Term Chair of Food Studies and a Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of California, Los Angeles and Director of the DIet, Stigma, and Health (DiSH) laboratory (www.dishlab.org). Her work has been recognized by early career awards from the Association for Psychological Science, the Society for Behavioral Medicine, and the Society for Health Psychology. She is also the recipient of the UCLA Life Sciences Excellence in Promotion of Diversity & Inclusion Award, the Undergraduate Research Mentoring Award, and the Distinguished Faculty Teaching Award. She is past president of the Society for Biopsychosocial Science and Medicine. Her research, which has been funded by the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, focuses on the biobehavioral and health consequences of stress, dieting, comfort eating, and weight stigma.

1998, Ph.D. Hoshi Univ (Tokyo); 1998, Post-doc, Natl Inst Hlth Sci (Tokyo); 2002, Post-doc, Hospital for Sick Children (Toronto); 2004, Research Scientist, Natl Inst Hlth Sci (Tokyo); 2005 (Asst Prof), 2006 (Assoc Prof), 2014 (Prof), Kyushu Univ (Fukuoka)

Jane Walker is a consultation-liaison psychiatrist who has conducted award-winning research in the field of psycho-oncology. She is also a leadership coach for clinicians and researchers, enabling them to communicate and lead with confidence.

Dr. Yoshiuchi is Professor and Chief of Department of Psychosomatic Medicine at The University of Tokyo Hospital. He serves as a board of directors for Japanese Society of Psychosomatic Medicine, the editor-in-chief for BioPsychoSocial Medicine, and an editorial board for Biopsychosocial Science and Medicine.