Professor Huang Jian Elected as the Chairman-elect of the Tenth Chinese Urological Association Committee

From December 20 to 22, the 20th National Academic Annual Conference of Chinese Urological Association (CUA) was held in Beijing. Prof. Huang Jian from Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hospital was elected as the Chairman-elect of the Tenth Chinese Urological Association Committee.

For the past decade, Prof. Huang Jian has been dedicating himself to the basic and clinical research of bladder cancer, prostate cancer, etc. He has also been engaged in the innovation, application and promotion of the minimally invasive techniques in the treatment of urological diseases. He took the lead in performing many challenging laparoscopic surgeries including laparoscopic radical cystectomy, single-port laparoscopic surgeries, and 3D-laparoscopic urological surgeries. With his great contribution to the development of Urology, Prof. Huang Jian was granted the Wu Jieping Medical Science Award in Urology in 2012, which is the highest honor in Urology in China. Prof. Urs E. Studer, who is an internationally famous urologist, once said, “Prof. Jian Huang is the leading expert in laparoscopic radical cystectomy (LRC). He is a pioneer not only in China, but also in the world”.

In recent years, Sun Yat-Sen Memorial Hospital has achieved fruitful results under Prof. Huang Jian’s leadership. His team of Urologists have won 12 funds from National Natural Science Foundation of China, the National Health Industry Public Welfare Fund Projects, the Ministry of Health Clinical Key Projects, etc. They have published more than 40 pieces of SCI papers in many international famous journals including European Urology, International Journal of Cancer, British Journal of Cancer, etc. They have published the monographs of Minimally Invasive Urological Surgery, and have also taken the lead in formulating many urological standards and national guidelines, such as Standardized Tutorial of Urological Minimal Invasive Techniques, and The 2014 Guidelines for the Diagnosis and Treatment of Bladder Cancer in China. Their researches have won the First Prize of the Outstanding Achievement Award of the Ministry of Education of Scientific Research in 2009, and the First Prize of the Guangdong Technology Advancement Award in 2012. The Urology Department was granted the State Key Clinical Department and the Key Medical Department in Guangdong in 2012.

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This piece of News was adapted from http://www.sysu.edu.cn/2012/en/news/news03/14221.htm