Katsumi Iizuka graduated in 1993 from the School of Medicine at Osaka University. He graduated in 2000 from the Faculty of Medicine at Osaka University. He worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Kosaku Uyeda from 2000 to 2002. He also worked at Gunma University and then at Gifu University as a lecturer from 2004 to 2021. Katsumi Iizuka now works as a professor at Fujita Health University. His research topics mainly include insulin resistance, obesity, nutrition, metabolism, abdominal, obesity, glucose metabolism, diabetes mellitus, diabetes, lipid metabolism, and metabolic diseases.