Dr. Kamata has received her doctor of medicine degree from Tokyo Women's Medical University in Tokyo, Japan (2001). After completing an anesthesiology residency in 2003 at Tokyo Women's Medical University, she became a board-certified anesthesiologist in Japan. She obtained her doctor of philosophy degree from the Graduate School of Medicine, Tokyo Women's Medical University (2007). She also studied at Tampere University, Tampere, Finland as a postdoctoral researcher of the Finnish government scholarship (2009-2012). Dr. Kamata is councilors of the Japanese Society of Neuroscience in Anesthesiology and Critical Care (JSNACC), the Japan Society for Geriatric Anesthesia, and the Japanese Society of Intravenous Anesthesia. Dr. Kamata is a working group member of the Educational Committee of JSNACC and the Perioperative Management Committee of the Japanese Society of Anesthesiologists. Dr. Kamata's main research interest is neuroanesthesia, especially awake craniotomy, procedural sedation and analgesia for pediatric stereotactic radiosurgery, and anesthesia EEG. She visited Viet Duc University Hospital, Hanoi, Vietnam, to launch an awake craniotomy in Vietnam (2018-2019).