Dr. Yingxian Sun (China)
Chair of the Committee
Prof. Sun has been practicing medicine for over 40 years. He has served as director of the department of cardiology since 2002. He led the China Rural Hypertension Control Program (CRHCP), which is the world’s largest-scale randomized controlled trial (RCT).
Honors:
Academician of the International Eurasian Academy of Sciences
Award(First completer):
Second Prize of the National Science and Technology Progress Award
First Prize of Science and Technology Award of Liaoning Province (3 times)
Second Prize of the Chinese Medical Science and Technology Award
Academic Appointments:
Vice President of Chinese Society of Cardiology
Chairman of the Hypertension Committee of the Chinese Medical Doctor Association
Editor-in-Chief of the Asian Heart Journal (the official publication of AHS)
Past President of the Liaoning Society of Cardiology
Past President of the Liaoning Society of Internal Medicine
Fellow of the American College of Cardiology (ACC)
Fellow of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC)
Honors:
Academician of the International Eurasian Academy of Sciences
Award(First completer):
Second Prize of the National Science and Technology Progress Award
First Prize of Science and Technology Award of Liaoning Province (3 times)
Second Prize of the Chinese Medical Science and Technology Award
Academic Appointments:
Vice President of Chinese Society of Cardiology
Chairman of the Hypertension Committee of the Chinese Medical Doctor Association
Editor-in-Chief of the Asian Heart Journal (the official publication of AHS)
Past President of the Liaoning Society of Cardiology
Past President of the Liaoning Society of Internal Medicine
Fellow of the American College of Cardiology (ACC)
Fellow of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC)
Research Contributions:
He has authored 16 academic monographs and published 588 research papers(corresponding author), including 343 SCI papers with a cumulative impact factor of 1294.146. His representative works have been featured in prestigious journals such as The Lancet(3 papers), Nature Medicine, Circulation, J Am Coll Cardiol, JAMA Cardiology and Cell Research.