Combined treatment is the hope to improve prognosis of liver cancer

Abstract

Xiaoping Chen, Academician of the Chinese Academy of Science, Professor and Chairman of the Department of Surgery, Director of the Institute of Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Surgery and Hepatic Surgery Center of Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology. He earned his M.D. from Tongji Medical College in 1985 and was further trained in the United States and Germany. In 1992, he received the International Scholar title from the American Cleveland Medical Communication Center. In 1996, he earned the American Sackler Chinese Doctor Annual Award. The next year, he became the first recipient of the Wu Mengchao Hepatobiliary Surgery Foundation Award. In 2002, his study entitled “Series of research and technique amelioration in hepatic surgery” won him the first Chinese Medical Association Award. He was elected the director of the Hepatic Surgery Group of the Chinese Medical Association in 2002 and then president of the Chinese Chapter of the International Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Association in 2003. His basic and clinical application research on hepatic surgery won him the National Science and Technology Progress Award in 2004. Dr. Chen has a clinical practice focused on hepato-pancreato-biliary surgery. He cares for patients with a broad spectrum of malignancies, including liver, bile duct, and pancreatic cancers. He also serves as director of the institute of organ transplantation and specializes in clinical liver transplantation. In addition to his clinical practice and administrative responsibilities, Dr. Chen is an active investigator in the field of cancer biology and cancer clinical trials. He has published over 500 peer-reviewed articles in these fields and has had continuous funding from the National Nature Science Foundation of China for more than 10 years. Dr. Chen is the editor-in-chief of the national medical textbooks Surgery, Contemporary Surgical English Essentials, Elementary Techniques of Surgical Intervention, Surgical Frequently Used Experiment Methods and Foundation of Animal Models, Hepatectomy, and Progress of Hepato-pancreatobiliary and Splenic Surgery. He is also the editor-in-chief, associate editor, and/or reviewer for more than 30 domestic and international journals.