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Cunchuan Wang, MD PhD
  • President of IFSO-APC & CSMBS
  • The First Affiliated Hospital of Jinan University
  • Guangzhou Guangdong China

Biography

1.President / Executive Member of Asia Pacific Chapter, International Federation for the Surgery of Obesity and Metabolic Disorders (IFSO). 2.President of Chinese Society for Metabolic & Bariatric Surgery (CSMBS) 3.Vice President of the First Affiliated Hospital of Jinan University (Guangzhou Overseas Chinese Hospital) 4.Member of the Standing Committee of the Surgeon Branch of the Chinese Medical Doctor Association 5.President of the Obesity Metabolic Surgery Branch of Guangdong Medical Association 6.Honorary Chairman of the Minimally Invasive Surgery Branch of Guangdong Medical Association 7.Leading Talent of Medicine in Guangdong Province

Main achievements:
Engaged in clinical work in general surgery for more than 30 years; pioneered precise minimally invasive bariatric surgery for the treatment of metabolic diseases such as obesity and diabetes, as well as scarless endoscopic thyroidectomy for thyroid diseases thro transoral vestibular approach or areola approach; promoted and improved various laparoscopic hepatobiliary, pancreatic, spleen and gastrointestinal hernia operations. He has been invited to more than 400 hospitals at home and abroad to demonstrate and promote various minimally invasive surgeries.

Main Research Direction 1.Minimally Invasive surgical treatment of obesity and metabolic diseases 2.Diagnosis and laparoscopic and minimally invasive surgery of gastrointestinal tumors and other intractable diseases of the gastrointestinal tract 3.Minimally invasive endoscopic surgery for thyroid and parathyroid diseases, eg, tumors, hyperthyroidism and hyperparathyroidism 4.Laparoscopic (minimally invasive) surgical treatment of inguinal hernia, incisional hernia, diaphragmatic hernia and hiatal hernia, etc. 5.Diagnosis and treatment of intractable diseases in hepatobiliary, pancreatic, and splenic surgery