Dong Jiahong

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, and president of the Society for Hepatopancreatobiliary Surgery in the Chinese Research Hospital Association. 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.

Education Dong received a BSc from Xuzhou Medical College in 1982, and graduated with a PhD from the Army Medical University in 1993.

Career 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.

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. He also remotely led a medical team in Shenzhen from Beijing, completing the world's first remote and cooperative brain surgery using 5G technology.

Dong serves as the editor-in-chief of the Chinese Journal of Digestive Surgery, and according to publication aggregator ResearchGate, has published alongside co-authors 124 papers.

Honours and awards In 2015, Dong was elected an honorary fellow of the American Surgical Association, and an honorary fellow of the French Academy of Surgery for his works in technical surgery, and surgical education. In 2017, he was elected an Academician of the Division of Medicine and Hygiene.