Dr Masanori Mori is a palliative care physician and the Director of the Division of Palliative and Supportive Care at Seirei Mikatahara General Hospital in Hamamatsu, Japan. After graduating from Kyoto University in 2002, he completed his internal medicine residency at Okinawa Chubu Hospital in Japan and Beth Israel Medical Center in New York, followed by a hospice and palliative medicine fellowship at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, and a hematology/oncology fellowship at the University of Vermont College of Medicine in Burlington, USA.

Currently, Dr. Mori serves as Co-Vice Chair of the Asia Pacific Hospice Palliative Care Network (APHN). His research interests include symptom management—with a particular focus on breathlessness—physician–patient communication, and advance care planning.

He has served as Principal Investigator for multiple national and international projects, including the East Asian cross-cultural collaborative Study to Elucidate the Dying process (EASED) conducted in Japan, Korea, and Taiwan; a Delphi study on advance care planning in Asia; a cross-cultural survey on prognostic communication; and prospective studies on symptom management in patients with advanced cancer.

Dr Mori is a co-editor of the book Advance Care Planning in the Asia Pacific. He has also contributed to the development of several national and international clinical practice guidelines and has played active roles in organizing scientific meetings and educational programs.

On a personal note, Dr Mori enjoys haiku poetry and has recently published his first haiku collection.