Zitong WANG

Areas of Specialty
•Highly proficient in the diagnosis and treatment of thoracic diseases. Particularly in lung, esophageal, tuberculosis, chest wall lesions, and mediastinal lesions.
•Complex surgeries including pulmonary resection, tracheoplasty, vascular reconstruction, and superior vena cava reconstruction.

Education Background
•Graduated from Capital Medical University with a bachelor of medicine in 1987
•Received MMed from Beijing Thoracic Tumor Research Institute in 2000
•Graduated with a PhD from Beijing Thoracic Tumor Research Institute in 2009

Working Experience
•Has served for almost 40 years as a Thoracic Surgeon at Beijing Chest Hospital, Capital Medical University
•Received advanced training in general surgery from Chaoyang Hospital, Capital Medical University
•Was a visitng scholar at MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston (USA) in 2007
Promoted to Director of Thoracic Surgery in 2004 and Chief Physician in 2005

Academic Achievement
•Led two municipal-level research projects.
•Participated in the compilation of six monographs, integrating his many years of clinical experience and academic research results and contributing significantly to the academic inheritance and development in the domestic field of thoracic surgery.
•Organized six national-level training courses.
•Dispatched by the Ministry of Human Resources to the Wenchuan disaster area in 2008 to guide patient rehabilitation
•Participated in numerous national consultations and surgical technical support.
•Supervised six master’s students.

Honors, Awards and Professional Memberships
•Council Member, Beijing Thoracic Surgery Association
•Committee Member, Beijing Thoracic Surgery Branch of Chinese Medical Association
•Vice Chairman, Thoracic Surgery Committee of Tuberculosis Branch of Chinese Medical Association
•Awarded Outstanding Communist Party Member from the Beijing Health Bureau in 1993