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Honorary Fellow, French Academy of Surgery (2015)
Doctor Dong Jiahong (Chinese: 董家鸿; pinyin: Dong Jiāhóng; born March 8, 1960) is a Chinese surgeon specialising in liver transplantation. Dong is the president of Beijing Tsinghua Changgung Hospital, president of the Clinical Medicine School in Tsinghua University,[1] and president of the Society for Hepatopancreatobiliary Surgery in the Chinese Research Hospital Association.[2] He also serves as a committee member of the Chinese Surgical Association and the Chinese Transplantation Association, an executive councillor of the International Society of Digestive Surgery (ISDS), a scientific committee member of the International HPB Association (IHPBA), and honorary foreign member of the French National Academy of Surgery, the American Surgical Association, and the European Surgical Association.[3]
Dong received a BSc from Xuzhou Medical College in 1982, and graduated with a PhD from the Army Medical University in 1993.[4]
In 1996, Dong taught as a tenured professor at the Hepatobiliary Surgery Center at the Army Medical University. In 1998, he was promoted to surgeon-in-chief of the Hepatobiliary Surgery Center at the Third Military Medical University, and in 2006, became head of the Chinese People's Liberation Army General Hospital in Beijing, China.[4]
In 2014, Dong became executive president of Beijing Tsinghua Changgung. Two years later in 2016, Dong and a team of doctors launched the first internet-based alliance of hepatobiliary disease clinics in China to help rural patients gain access to healthcare.[5]
In 2019, Dong led a research team at Tsinghua University which developed a COVID-19 Intelligent Monitoring and Control System, integrating big data, the Internet of Things, and artificial intelligence with clinical medicine.[6] He also remotely led a medical team in Shenzhen from Beijing, completing the world's first remote and cooperative brain surgery using 5G technology.[7][8]
Dong serves as the editor-in-chief of the Chinese Journal of Digestive Surgery,[9] and according to publication aggregator ResearchGate, has published alongside co-authors 124 papers.[10]
In 2015, Dong was elected an honorary fellow of the American Surgical Association,[11] and an honorary fellow of the French Academy of Surgery for his works in technical surgery, and surgical education.[12] In 2017, he was elected an Academician of the Division of Medicine and Hygiene.[13]
