Education: 2001: Seven-year combined Bachelor and Master Program in Clinical Medicine, Zhongshan School of Medicine, Sun Yat-sen University 2008: Doctor of Clinical Medicine, Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University. He was a state-sponsored joint-training PhD at the Digestive Disease Center of Scott & White Hospital affiliated with Texas A&M University, USA.
Work Experience: Since 2011: Resident Physician and Attending Physician, Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University Since 2017: Associate Chief Physician, Department of Biliary and Pancreatic Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University In 2023, he joined the Guangdong provincial medical team for grouped paired medical support and served as the team leader of the 5th medical assistance team between The First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University and Fengkai County People’s Hospital in Zhaoqing. In 2024, he took part in the Hospital Authority of Hong Kong – The First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University Mainland Medical Talent Exchange Programme, working as a practicing surgeon / visiting clinician in the Department of Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Surgery, Queen Mary Hospital, The University of Hong Kong.
Specialties & Achievements: He completed the seven-year combined Bachelor-Master program in Clinical Medicine and is a state-sponsored joint-training MD. In 2013, he participated in the first ALPPS (Associating Liver Partition and Portal Vein Ligation for Staged Hepatectomy) performed at the hospital for primary liver cancer. In 2021, he performed the world’s first ICG fluorescence-guided laparoscopic necrosectomy for severe acute pancreatitis with infected pancreatic necrosis. He has presided over 4 research projects including the National Natural Science Foundation of China, a sub-project of the Key Program of the National Natural Science Foundation of China – Shenzhen Robotics Basic Research Center, Guangdong Natural Science Foundation and Guangdong Medical Research Foundation. He has published 9 SCI papers as the first or corresponding author.
Research Interests: Surgical treatment and clinical-basic research of primary liver cancer, biliary malignancies, pancreatic malignancies and severe acute pancreatitis.
He is experienced in the clinical diagnosis and surgical management of common hepatobiliary and pancreatic diseases, including intrahepatic and extrahepatic bile duct stones, primary liver cancer, biliary malignancies (intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma, gallbladder cancer, hilar cholangiocarcinoma and distal common bile duct cancer), cirrhosis with portal hypertension, periampullary carcinoma, benign and malignant pancreatic tumors, as well as acute and chronic pancreatitis. He has extensive experience in complex procedures such as vascular resection and reconstruction for hepatobiliary and pancreatic malignancies. He is proficient in minimally invasive treatment using laparoscopy, choledochoscopy, ERCP and intraoperative ultrasonography.
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