Professor, Chief Physician, Doctoral Supervisor. As the corresponding author and first author, he has published more than 40 SCI-indexed papers, and has undertaken or been in charge of 6 major national research funds including the National Natural Science Foundation of China, 973 Program, and Special Research Fund of the Ministry of Health.
He has been engaged in frontline clinical work of pediatric congenital heart disease and pediatric thoracic surgical diseases for 40 years. He has performed over 5,000 major operations for various congenital heart diseases and thoracic disorders, with an annual surgical volume of more than 500 cases, among which complex operations account for over 80%. He is an authority in the fields of surgical treatment of complex congenital heart disease in neonates, functional single ventricle, cone reconstruction for Ebstein's anomaly, congenital pulmonary malformations, pediatric mediastinal tumors and pectus excavatum.
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