Education and Work Experience Sep. 2010 – Jul. 2015: Combined Master’s and Doctoral Program in Spine Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University Oct. 2013 – Mar. 2015: State-sponsored Joint-training Doctoral Student at the University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB), USA Jul. 2015 – Present: Department of Spine Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University

Research Interests Minimally invasive treatment of degenerative spinal disorders (cervical spondylosis, lumbar disc herniation, lumbar spinal stenosis), diagnosis and management of spinal deformities, and clinical and basic research on spinal cord injury.

Clinical Expertise: He has focused on the diagnosis and treatment of spinal disorders for more than ten years and accumulated extensive experience in common spinal conditions. His main practice covers degenerative spinal diseases and spinal deformities, including lumbar disc herniation, lumbar spinal stenosis, lumbar spondylolisthesis, cervical spondylosis, spinal deformities and spinal cord injury. He advocates prevention-first philosophy, appropriate treatment, and integrated rehabilitation and surgical intervention for spinal diseases. He specializes in minimally invasive surgery for lumbar disc herniation and osteoporotic vertebral fractures, lumbar neural decompression and internal fixation, anterior and posterior cervical decompression, and spinal deformity correction.