Insights and treatment strategy on the complex PAD

Dr DONG is a Vascular and Endovascular Surgeon from the Department of Vascular Surgery, Zhongshan Hospital Affiliated to Fudan University, Shanghai, China. He has extensive clinical experience in the minimally invasive endovascular treatment of lower extremity arterial occlusion, along with a particular interest in diabetic feet. He is also expert in the treatment of aortic aneurysm, aortic dissection, splenic aneurysm, renal artery stenosis, carotid artery stenosis, and also venous disease. Dr Dong visited the Kobe stem cell transplantation research laboratory center and the Affiliated Hospital of Kyoto Prefectural Medical University to learn stem cell transplantation for limb ischemia in 2010. And he visited in Northwestern University , Stanford University and Cleveland vascular center, learning endovascular minimally invasive treatment, funded by the American Society of vascular surgery in 2011. Now Dr Dong is a member and secretary of thoracic aorta group, vascular surgeons branch, Chinese Medical Association. He is also a member of society for vascular surgery, and International society of endovascular specialist, editorial board member of Journal of endovascular therapy.

Dr Sukhjinder Nijjer is a Consultant Cardiologist and Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer at Imperial College London. He is the President of Cardiology at the Royal Society of Medicine and is the Communication Lead for the British Cardiovascular Intervention Society. He works at the Hammersmith Hospital as an Interventional Cardiologist and is an expert in Coronary Physiology. His PhD research focused on the development of instantaneous wave-free ratio (iFR) pullback and co-registration. He has published over 100 original academic papers and has involved in the DEFINE-FLAIR, SYNTAX-II and ORBITA-1 and ORBITA-2 research studies.

Dr.YIN Minyi graduated from Shanghai Jiaotong University with M.D. and Ph.D. He started working in the Ninth People’s Hospital, affiliated to Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine from 2001. He obtained the Vascular Surgery Visiting Scholar in Department of Vascular Surgery, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, USA and in Department of Vascular Surgery, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center in 2010. He also got Vascular Surgery Visiting Scholar in Department of Vascular Surgery, Stanford University, CA, USA from 2014 to 2015. Now he is a member of the international society of endovascular surgeries (ISEs), member of the society for vascular surgery (SVS), member of the Youth Committee of the Chinese branch of the international vascular Union, and a member of the translational medicine group of the endovascular Professional Committee of the Chinese Medical Association. He is good at the diagnosis and treatment of vascular diseases such as arteriosclerosis obliterans, vasculitis, diabetic foot, deep venous thrombosis and thrombosis sequelae of lower limbs, especially in the endovascular interventional treatment of lower extremity arteriovenous diseases. He has been the first person to undertake 6 projects of National Natural Science Foundation. More than 40 papers have been published as the first author and corresponding author, of which 6 are included in SCI. He participated in the compilation of 3 monographs including clinical vascular surgery.

Dr. Yiu Che CHAN graduated of Charing Cross & Westminster Medical School, London University, and trained at St. Mary’s Hospital, Guy’s & St. Thomas’ Hospital. He returned to Hong Kong in 2007 and now works as Associate Professor in Division of Vascular Surgery at the University of Hong Kong. He was UCLA Travelling Scholarship to University of California, Los Angeles in 2012, and he is the Director of Surgical Admissions at University of Hong Kong, council member for Asian Society of Vascular Surgical, and was the Secretary General for the Asian Surgical Association. He is a vascular surgeon specialising in open and minimally invasive endovascular surgery involving the aorta, peripheral arteries and veins. He is a holder of multiple international and local research grants, and has published over 120 papers.