Yu Chaochun
Professor
Master's Supervisor
Director of the Neurosurgery Ward, Yida Hospital, School of Medicine, Shanghai University
Second place for "tethered cord syndrome" surgery on the China Top 100 Renowned Physicians ranking
Yu Chaochun, Chief Physician, Professor and Master's Supervisor, has worked in clinical care, teaching and research in neurosurgery for more than 35 years. He formerly served as Director of Neurosurgery at the Shanghai Municipal Hospital of Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine affiliated to Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, was a visiting scholar at the University of South Florida in the United States, and now serves as Director of the Neurosurgery Ward at Yida Hospital, School of Medicine, Shanghai University.
He has long been dedicated to the clinical diagnosis and treatment of neurosurgical conditions, with extensive experience in the treatment of traumatic brain injury, cerebrovascular disease and brain tumors. Since 2003 he has focused on microsurgical treatment of tethered cord syndrome, was an early adopter of surgery for complex lipoma-type tethered cord under intraoperative electrophysiological monitoring, and proposed the treatment philosophy of "removing the lipoma as completely as possible and fully releasing the spinal cord"; he has been invited many times to give presentations at academic conferences in China and abroad, and has considerable academic influence in the diagnosis and treatment of tethered cord syndrome.
He specializes in the surgical treatment of neurosurgical conditions such as traumatic brain injury, cerebrovascular disease and brain tumors, and skillfully performs microsurgery for conditions such as tethered cord syndrome and sacral canal cysts, with particular expertise in the precise treatment of complex lipoma-type tethered cord syndrome under intraoperative electrophysiological monitoring.
He also performs spinal cord stimulation (SCS) and sacral neuromodulation (SNM) to treat neurological dysfunction such as spinal cord injury, neuralgia, neurogenic bladder, post-stroke hemiplegia and diabetic foot, providing patients with individualized, precise treatment plans.
He has long worked in clinical neurosurgical research and medical education, leading 2 research projects of the Shanghai Municipal Science and Technology Commission, 1 Shanghai traditional Chinese medicine fund project, 3 Shanghai bureau-level research projects, 1 Hongkou District key specialty development project and 2 national medicine strengthening projects.
He has published more than 30 academic papers in core journals, including 3 SCI-indexed papers; taken part in writing 1 monograph, "Integrated Chinese-Western Medicine Neurosurgery", and translating 1 monograph; taken part in formulating and writing a number of expert consensuses; and trained 10 master's students, making an active contribution to the training of neurosurgical talent and to discipline development.
Chairman, Neurosurgery Committee, Shanghai Society of Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine
Member, Neurosurgery Committee, Shanghai Medical Association
Member, Neurosurgeons Branch, Shanghai Medical Doctor Association
Standing Committee Member, Neuro-oncology Committee, Shanghai Anti-Cancer Association
Project Review Expert, Shanghai Municipal Science and Technology Commission
Member, Neuro-oncology Branch, Western Returned Scholars Association
Standing Committee Member, Neurosurgery Committee, Chinese Association of Integrative Medicine
Standing Committee Member, Cerebrovascular Disease Committee, Chinese Research Hospital Association
