Deputy Director of the Department of Neurosurgery, The First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University. He has been honored with the “Annual Good Doctor” award for six sessions, Hurun Ping An “China Good Doctor”, “Outstanding Young and Middle-aged Doctor of Guangdong”, and “Guangzhou Good Doctor”. He is a Model Worker of the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region and recipient of the Second Prize of the Science and Technology Progress Award from the Ministry of Education.

A graduate of the seven-year English-taught program of Sun Yat-sen University of Medical Sciences, he has worked at The First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University for 25 years after graduation. He also serves as the academic leader of the Department of Neurosurgery at The First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University (Guangxi).

He has presided over seven national and provincial research grants. He has published 14 SCI papers as the first or corresponding author in journals including Nature Communications, with the highest single impact factor of 16.7. He once practiced at the Royal Melbourne Hospital.

His clinical scope covers hemifacial spasm, trigeminal neuralgia, facial palsy, blepharospasm, Parkinson’s disease, hydrocephalus, cerebrovascular diseases, brain tumors, traumatic brain injury, epilepsy, skull defects, headache and cervicobrachial pain. The effective rate for trigeminal neuralgia and hemifacial spasm exceeds 95%. He is especially experienced in surgery for elderly patients, having performed over 200 operations on patients aged 80 and above, with the oldest being 94 years old.

He completed the first percutaneous balloon compression (PBC) for trigeminal neuralgia, the first spinal cord stimulation (SCS), the first vagus nerve stimulation (VNS), the first awake craniotomy for glioma, and the first neurosurgical robotic surgery at Sun Yat-sen University. He participated in China’s first deep brain stimulation (DBS) for Parkinson’s disease under general anesthesia.