Xiangdong Chen
Editors-in-Chief, Journal of Anesthesia and Translational Medicine
Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China
Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China
Xiangdong Chen, M.D., Ph.D., Professor, Chief Physician, and PhD Supervisor. He is the Director of the Department of Anesthesiology at Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, and the Director of the Institute of Anesthesia and Critical Care Medicine. He is also the Director of the Key Laboratory of Anesthesia and Resuscitation (HUST), Ministry of Education, China.
Dr. Chen serves as the Vice President of the Chinese Association of Anesthesiologists of the Chinese Medical Doctor Association (CMDA-CAA), a Standing Committee Member and Chair of the Pain Group of the Chinese Society of Anesthesiology, a Committee Member of the Pain Committee of the World Federation of Societies of Anaesthesiologists (WFSA), and President of the Hubei Association of Anesthesiologists of the Chinese Medical Doctor Association, among other roles. He is also an Academic Committee Member for the Ministry of Education’s Degree and Graduate Education Review, as well as the academic committee for the Ministry of Science and Technology’s key R&D projects.
Dr. Chen is the Chief Editor of the Journal of Anesthesiology and Translational Medicine (JATM), an Executive Editorial Board Member of the Chinese Journal of Anesthesiology and Anesthesiology (Chinese version), among other journals.
He has over 10 years of study experience at Sapporo Medical University in Japan and the University of Virginia in the United States. Dr. Chen has led 3 research projects funded by the U.S. and Japan, 6 projects funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China, and is the Principal Investigator for a key R&D project funded by the Ministry of Science and Technology.
Dr. Chen's primary research focuses on the molecular mechanisms of anesthesia recovery and precision anesthesia regulation. He has published over 100 SCI papers in journals such as PNAS, Journal of Neuroscience, and Anesthesiology, with over 3,000 citations. He has supervised 48 master's and doctoral students at Wuhan University, Sichuan University, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, and the University of Virginia.