Satoshi Kakiuchi is a medical doctor (Internal Medicine and Infectious Diseases) at Nagasaki Yurino Hospital in Japan. He is a postdoctoral research scholar at the University of Iowa. He is a graduate of Biomedical Science, Nagasaki University, Japan. He completed his infectious diseases fellowship in Nagasaki University Department of Infectious Diseases, Japan. His research interests include epidemiology, molecular epidemiology, pneumococcal diseases, antimicrobial stewardship, and infection control.