Round Table Discussion Speakers

Professor Yaolong CHEN 

Professor, Evidence Based Medicine Centre of Lanzhou University, Gansu, China
Co-Director, WHO Collaborating Centre for Guideline Implementation and Knowledge Translation
Chair, GIN Asia
Director, Chinese GRADE Centre

Professor Yaolong Chen is a guideline methodologist at the Evidence Based Medicine Centre of Lanzhou University. He is the Founding Director of Chinese GRADE Centre and Co-Director of WHO Collaborating Centre for Guideline Implementation and Knowledge Translation. He is also the Chair of GIN Asia (Guideline International Network). He received his Bachelor’s degree in clinical medicine at Lanzhou University, Master’s degree in evidence-based medicine at Chinese Cochrane Centre, and PhD degree in integrative medicine at Lanzhou University. He studied guideline development in McMaster University between September 2010 and March 2011 as a visiting research fellow and worked for the WHO Guidelines Review Committee between September 2013 and March 2014 as a volunteer.

Professor Chen is the Co-Founder and Co-Chair of RIGHT (Reporting Items for Practice Guidelines in Healthcare) working group, and the Co-Founder of Practice Guideline Register Platform (http://www.guidelines-registry.org). He has authored and co-authored more than 100 peer reviewed articles on evidence-based medicine, GRADE and practice guidelines. He has been invited to give numerous presentations in Cochrane colloquiums, GIN conferences and other national and international symposiums. He was involved in the development of more than 30 practice guidelines over the last five years. He is also the convener of the Testing Treatments Editorial Alliance (http://www.testingtreatments.org).

Professor Yingyao CHEN

Professor of Health Services,
Associate Dean, School of Public Health,
Director, Key Lab of Health Technology Assessment, National Health Commission, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
Director, WHO Collaborating Center for HTA and Management

Professor Yingyao Chen is Professor of Health Services at the School of Public Health, Fudan University (FUSPH), Director of the Key Lab of Health Technology Assessment (National Health Commission) at Fudan University, and Director of WHO Collaborating Centre for Health Technology Assessment and Management. In addition, he is the Associate Dean of the School of Public Health, responsible for international collaborations.

He received his Bachelor of Medicine and Master of Public Health at Shanghai Medical University in 1991 and 1997 respectively, and his PhD in Management at Fudan University in 2006. He took part in a visiting scholar programme at the University of California, Los Angeles from 1999 to 2001.

His academic interests focus on health technology assessment, health policy, health economics, and hospital management. He was a principal investigator of several projects funded by the World Health Organisation (WHO), World Bank, China Medical Board, Ministry of Health, Ministry of Science and Technology, National Natural Science Foundation of China, and provincial health authorities. He has published 150 papers (140 in Chinese or 10 in English) as the first author and/or corresponding author. He is the Editor-in-chief of Health Services Evaluation and Disease Burdens of Main Birth Defects and Economic Evaluation of Their Preventive Strategies in China. He is also a co-author of 14 books.

He serves as a member of board of directors of Health Technology Assessment international (HTAi) (2016-2019), the Vice-Chairman of the Public Health Economics Committee affiliated to China Health Economics Association and the Vice-Chairman of Birth Defects Prevention Committee affiliated to China Healthy Birth Science Association.

Professor Yan HU

Dean and Professor,
School of Nursing, Fudan University,
Shanghai, China

Professor Yan Hu is the Dean of the School of Nursing at Fudan University, Director of Fudan University Centre of Evidence-Based Nursing and Shanghai Evidence-Based Nursing Centre, and Acting Chair of CMB China Nursing Network (CCNN). She is also an editorial board member of the Journal of the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care, International Journal of Nursing Practice and other peer-reviewed nursing journals. In recent years, she has received numerous research grants from National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), China Medical Board (CMB) and Shanghai Municipal Health Bureau, and has published more than 200 papers in peer-reviewed international and national nursing journals.

Professor Hu is a pioneer in promoting evidence-based nursing practice (EBNP) in China and other Asian regions. She led to establish the first EBNP Centre in mainland China in 2004. Her team has maintained close collaborations with international evidence-based healthcare institutes such as the Joanna Briggs Institute (JBI) and the Cochrane Collaboration, as well as national evidence-based medicine (EBM) institutes such as Chinese EBM Centre and Chinese EBM Association. Her research focuses on implementation science and knowledge translation, and her team has successfully developed several models and tools for evidence-based nursing practice. In addition, she is the Editor-in-chief of several EBN textbooks (Chinese textbooks) and has received two national awards for her outstanding research work on EBNP.

Professor Jianping LIU

Director,
Centre for Evidence-Based Chinese Medicine, Beijing University of Chinese Medicine
Beijing, China

Professor Jianping Liu is a Professor of Clinical Epidemiology and the Director of the Centre for Evidence-Based Chinese Medicine at the Beijing University of Chinese Medicine. He is an advisor for traditional medicine for the World Health Organisation (WHO), and a Chang Jiang Scholar named by the Ministry of Education, China. He is also a part-time senior researcher at the National Research Centre in Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NAFKAM) of the Arctic University of Norway, and an Adjunct Professor of Western Sydney University in Australia. In addition, he is the current President of the International Society for Complementary Medicine Research (ISCMR), a member of the Cochrane Complementary Medicine Field Advisory Board, and past Chair of the Evidence-Based Medicine Committee under the Chinese Association of Integrative Medicine. Professor Liu was awarded more than 30 grants from international, national and regional bodies for his research in Traditional Chinese Medicine and integrative medicine. He has authored 9 books, co-authored 8 books, and published more than 520 papers in international and national peer-reviewed journals.

Professor Qin LIU

Professor, Department of Maternal and Child Health & Adolescent Health
Director, Evidence-Based Medicine Centre,
School of Public Health & Management,
Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China

Professor Qin Liu majored in public health and evidence-based medicine with a special interest in evidence-based research in child and adolescent health. She successfully received 18 research grants from the Department for International Development (DFID) in UK and national and local government in China in the past 10 years to work on evidence-based synthesis, child growth and development, child mental health and behaviours, and child nutrition. She has approximately 70 peer-reviewed publications in national and international journals. Professor Liu also serves as a council member for seven national professional organisations related to evidence-based medicine, epidemiology and child health.

Professor Feng SUN

Associate Professor,
Department of Epidemiology and Bio-statistics,
School of Public Health, Peking University, Beijing, China
Secretary, Peking University Centre for Evidence Based Medicine and Clinical Research
Secretary, Centre of Post-marketing Safety Evaluation, Peking University Health Science Centre

Professor Feng Sun received her Bachelor’s degree from Hebei Medical University in 2003 and PhD degree from Peking University in 2009. She was supported by China Scholarship Council (CSC) to visit Harvard University as a visiting scholar during 2016-2017. Her research interests are in the field of pharmacoepidemiology and evidence-based medicine, in particular the use of new methodology to conduct comparative effectiveness research. She has published widely in the areas of cardiovascular and endocrine epidemiology and medication safety.

She is now responsible for a project (Developing methodological guidance for evidence-based evaluation of cancer screening programmes in the Chinese setting and its application) funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC). Her other projects focus on model development and evaluation in the field of pharmacoepidemiology using big data based on hospital or regional database, with the financial support from NSFC and other grants.

Professor Jiyao WANG

Professor of Internal Medicine and Emeritus Professor of Zhongshan Hospital affiliated to Fudan University, Shanghai, China
Director, Centre of Evidence-Based Medicine/Clinical Epidemiology, Fudan University
President, China Clinical Epidemiology Network (ChinaCLEN)
Member, Board of Trustees, International Clinical Epidemiology Network (INCLEN)

Professor Jiyao Wang is Professor of Internal Medicine, major in Hepatology, Gastroenterology and Clinical Epidemiology, and Emeritus Professor of Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University. She was born in 1944 in Shanghai and graduated from Shanghai First Medical College in 1967, and obtained her Master of Medicine from the same University in 1982 and MSc in Clinical Epidemiology from McMaster University, Canada in 1986. She was Director, Division of Gastroenterology and Chair of Department of Internal Medicine in Zhongshan Hospital, Chair of Faculty of Internal Medicine in Shanghai Medical College, Academic Committee Board member of Fudan University, and Chair, Chinese Medical Society of Clinical Epidemiology. At present, she is a professor in the Department of Gastroenterology and a member of Ethics Committee in Zhongshan Hospital, and Director, Centre of Evidence-Based Medicine/Clinical Epidemiology, Fudan University. She is also the President of China Clinical Epidemiology Network (ChinaCLEN), and a member, Board of Trustees, International Clinical Epidemiology Network (INCLEN). She served as the Chief Editor for more than 10 series of internal medicine textbooks including Practice of Internal Medicine and Evidence-Based Medicine and Clinical Practice. She has published more than 100 peer-reviewed articles in Lancet, Hepatology, Journal of Hepatology and Cochrane Reviews, etc. She received 16 advanced scientific awards from National or Shanghai Municipal government.

Professor Roman D. XU

Research Professor and Executive Deputy Director,
Sun Yat-sen University Global Health Institute,
School of Public Health and Institute of State Governance,
Sun Yat-sen University, Guangdong, China

Professor Roman Xu is the Executive Deputy Director and Research Professor of the Sun Yat-sen Global Health Institute at the Sun Yat-sen University. His research focuses on health system innovations and implementation science, particularly those involving chronic diseases, health quality, and mobile health in the context of global health. He is currently leading a large-scale study on the quality of primary health care in seven provinces in China using unannounced standardised patients and smartphone-based virtual patients, a nurse-led continuum of care randomised trial for people with diabetes in Nepal, a mobile health assisted community-based mental health programme (LEAN Trial) in Hunan, China, and health systems development projects in Kenya and Angola. Professor Xu held leadership positions at the China Medical Board, Harvard Medical School’s Harvard Medical International, Medtronic Inc., and the Chinese Medical Association. He is a founding board member of the China Health Policy and Management Society, the commissioner of the Lancet Commission on Primary Health Care and the Lancet Commission on Global Mental Health in China, and an associate editor of Tropical Medicine & International Health. Professor Xu received his PhD in global health implementation science at the University of Washington, Master in Public Policy (Health Policy) from Harvard University, and medicine & English qualifications from Sichuan University.

Round Table Discussion Speakers