Professor
Huazhong University of Science and Technology
Wuhan, China (People's Republic)
Song Wan was a Clinical Fellow (April 1994 – March 1998) at Department of Cardiac Surgery, University Hospital Erasme, Université Libre de Bruxelles, in Brussels, Belgium, where he obtained his Doctor of Medical Science degree with Plus Grande Distinction in 1997. He also received a Young Investigators Award of American College of Chest Physicians in 1996. Between April 1998 and July 2024, he was a staff cardiac surgeon at Prince of Wales Hospital, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, where he had been Professor and Honorary Advisor in Cardiothoracic Surgery since 2008. Currently, he is Professor of Surgery and Director, Institute of Cardiovascular Surgery, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology in Wuhan, China.
Professor Wan is a Fellow of American College of Cardiology and Royal College of Surgeons of England. Over the past decades his clinical and research interests have been focused on adult cardiac surgical issues, such as reconstructive valve surgery. To date, he has published 236 peer reviewed articles and 18 book chapters. He is a Councillor of Asian Society for Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery (ASCVTS) and member of 12 learned professional bodies, such as American Association for Thoracic Surgery (AATS) and Society of Thoracic Surgeons. He has been awarded Visiting Professorship at 11 leading medical schools. He is an Assistant Editor of Heart Surgery Forum and an editorial board member of 14 international referred journals including Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery and Asian Cardiovascular and Thoracic Annals. He was elected to be Deputy Director for both Committee on Valvular Surgery and Committee on Coronary Surgery; and Director, Committee on International Collaborations of the Chinese Association of Cardiovascular Surgeons. He was Chairman of Education Committee of ASCVTS (2020–2022). Currently, he is the International Chair for two AATS committees.
Disclosure information not submitted.
Transapical Beating-Heart Myectomy for HOCM
Friday, January 24, 2025
1:20pm – 1:30pm PT