Sun Baogui
Professor
Doctoral Supervisor
Chief Expert
Department of Cardiology
Shanghai Yida Hospital
Graduated from Harbin Medical University in 1982 and completed graduate studies in 1990, earning a PhD in internal medicine (cardiovascular specialty).
He studied at Wayne State University in the United States in 1994 and moved to Johns Hopkins University for postdoctoral work in 1995.
After returning to China at the end of 1998, he worked at Shanghai General Hospital as Director of Cardiology.
In 2000 he was appointed Professor and Doctoral Supervisor at Fudan University, and was subsequently appointed Professor and Doctoral Supervisor at Shanghai Jiao Tong University and Nanjing Medical University, and Visiting Professor at Shantou University Medical College.
He now serves as Chief Expert of the Department of Cardiology at Shanghai Yida Hospital.
He has long worked in clinical cardiology, in the diagnosis and treatment of heart conditions such as coronary heart disease, cardiomyopathy, heart failure and arrhythmia, with particular expertise in cardiac pacing, cardiac electrophysiology and radiofrequency ablation, as well as interventional cardiac treatments such as PCI.
Expert receiving special government allowance of the State Council.
Received the "National Achievement Award for Outstanding Returned Overseas Personnel" reviewed by six national ministries, and the title of "Outstanding Returned Overseas Chinese and Family Member".
Awarded the title of "Outstanding Young Researcher" by the International Academy of Cardiology.
He has served as member, standing committee member, deputy chairman or chairman of 12 national academic societies, including the Cardiovascular Society and the Electrophysiology and Pacing Society of the Chinese Medical Association.
He currently serves as Standing Committee Member of the Electrocardiology Society, Standing Deputy Chairman of the Heart Failure Society, and member of the Interventional Treatment Expert Group of the Chinese Medical Association.
Lifetime President, Shanghai Yuanda Cardiovascular Hospital.
Over the years he has published more than 400 papers, including SCI-indexed papers, and more than 30 books.
He has undertaken 18 research projects of various kinds, received 10 provincial and municipal awards for scientific achievement, and holds 5 national patents (3 of which received the Shanghai Outstanding Invention Patent Award).
In 1987 he was the first to propose the concept of compliance abnormality in dilated cardiomyopathy.
In 1989-1990 he was the first to establish a model of restenosis after PTCA and to propose its mechanism.
Using a radiofrequency device developed by his research group to study the mechanism of radiofrequency ablation, he was one of the pioneers of radiofrequency ablation in China.
He was the first in China to carry out research and clinical application on observing the anatomical morphology of the coronary veins through coronary angiography (only one similar result existed abroad at the time).
One of the first experts to use triple-chamber pacemakers, he was a pioneer of cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT).
He was the first in China to use the new technique of tissue Doppler ultrasound to evaluate and optimize CRT.
He was the first physician in China to use a pacemaker to treat vasovagal syncope.
He was the first to conduct research on the mechanism and clinical application of cryoablation.
He was the first in China to use cryotherapy to treat atrial fibrillation.
